Heavy Load

Found this on another site and thought it worth the post here. May be a repost but its worth looking at again.

a 3/4 ton truck and a goose neck trailer would have had no problem I bet.

That guy is a fool. Check out the pic and you can see the gap between the bed and cab is wider at the top than the bottom. Bent frame?

Forget about safety. I overload stuff all the time but this is just plain stupid.

That was a waste of a truck and trailer.

Does any one understand tongue weight?

Was that about the time Cash for Clunkers started.

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Don't mind the mule, load the wagon

That log probably is in the 6k - 9k lb range.

Nice firewood; poor way to try to haul it.

the guy on the loader has no clue either!

Uhhhhhhhh........... may not be an expert, but I have a better grasp on it than he does.

Yep Luke, looks like a little frame adjustment is gonna be needed after that load doesn't it? WOW

I think I can get that on my wood lathe and turn out a toothpick.

I think they would've had a shot if they loaded it over the axles and kept the weight off the tongue.

Looks like a few big popcorn or salad bowls to me. My Record Coronet CL3 has 12" swing over the bed,30" when headstock is swung for outboard use.

That's 30 inches,not 90 . I've seen a 5 ft swing lathe before,big bucks & can weigh up to a ton.More than I can afford or have room for,sometimes a chain or engine hoist is used to position blanks for attaching to 4 jaw chuck.Most that big have 100RPM tops,roughing out 30-50.

Expensive wood right there.

I think even the wagon is in trouble here.

Judging from the hurtin' that log is dishing out to that Chevy and it's position on the trailer, I'm gonna say it's quite a bit over that 9k mark.

I've seen those pics before. Maybe at the sane other site. I don't recall how far it was driven. Remind me please.

Ouch. That's where you call your buddy who owes you a favor and tell him to bring the dump truck. Or hitch the trailer to a tractor. Slow going, but you don't ruin your truck.

Looks better than the S-10 I saw at Menard's with a full skid of shingles in the bed. Tires blown out, and probably some other busted stuff too.

He made it about 30' past the yard gate.

Too bad no pictures.

What a flippin idiot Great way to destroy your truck and trailer!!
Here is his sign......

And I seem to recall a thread here a while back where someone claimed it was impossible to overload a 1 ton truck with wood So I guess they should have put the log in the back of his truck.
Those are the size logs I used to put in the 10 wheeler.

He might have had a prayer if the log was pushed about 10' back.