whooops..............

 

It looks like the hitch is already grounded. What a safety hazard!!!!!!

 

He will make it all the way to the scene of the crash!

 

As far as the first turn...as the front wheeels will be off the ground, he'll have no option but to go straight!

 

I thought that what the little wheel on the bottom of the tounge jack was for - just in case you over loaded it a little bit.

 

It will make it all the way up s**t creek!

 

Somebody better call the "tree hugging hippy moron"!

 

Yeah, this must be the trailer that hippy guy was talking about.

 

Looks like the pipes shifted forward. Can't see any chains so I am guessing that the original load maybe was over limit but reasonably balanced. Either the chains broke or they never were there. Once it shifted forward it put all the weight on the tongue.

Looks like the guy is parked and the tongue rest looks grounded so I think the guy knows he has a problem and is parked waiting for repairs or help.

I have seen trucks loaded as bad as this or worse except for the tongue rest on the ground. They got where they were going but I bet it was a white knuckle ride.

I once overloaded my old Datsun 1800 pickup. I had loaded some small boulders for my mom to use in her rock garden. They were probably about 100 to 200# each and I think I had 20 or 30 back there. I think the Datsun was a true half ton pickup so I would guess I was badly overloaded. In my case since the rocks were heavy I did not push them forward in the bed. I just dropped them as far into the bed as I could get them, which meant most of my load was behind the axle.

The ride home was fun, every time we hit one of those intersections with the dips, the front wheels came off the ground and we just kind of bounced across the intersection. I am surprised the motorcop did not stop me.

I now try to load more carefully and within limits of my truck, since I know how much fun it can be when you don't

Jim Henderson

 

Just back up and stab the brakes to readjust that load ?

 

It's a Ford it'll go where ever he wants to take it!!!

 

i once was doing a landscape job and had a pallet of fieldstone centered on my dual axle 16 ft trailer. started down a gradual hill and didn't notice that i was gathering speed till the curve. When i hit the brakes the trailer started going side to side and i ended up doing a 360 on a two lane in a curve never left the road but it took three tons of torque to pry my pants out of my seat after i stopped. That was in a 93 swb toyota 4x4 then i bought a ford with a brake controller.

 

4rdrules - the neutral loading of the trailer likely contributed to the problem - you want some tongue weight on the trailer for better handling.