I'm glad you got it all figured out silverrodo. Thanks for opening my eyes and shedding light on my cold heart. Maybe now I will have better judgement. How come the "details" were not included in the first post. All I seen was a picture and a "look at this idiot statement". And watford city says it has a population of a mere 1700 people. I bet we could get a lot farther from rural. But I digress, this guy is stupid for making it work, and I am ashamed of myself for taking his side. Thankfully there are law abiding folk like yourself With common sense and courtesy to let us know.
I dunno, 28000 lbs+ behind a 3/4 ton is pretty sketchy to me. His transmission and brakes must love him.
I'm glad you got it all figured out silverrodo. Thanks for opening my eyes and shedding light on my cold heart. Maybe now I will have better judgement. How come the "details" were not included in the first post. All I seen was a picture and a "look at this idiot statement". And watford city says it has a population of a mere 1700 people. I bet we could get a lot farther from rural. But I digress, this guy is stupid for making it work, and I am ashamed of myself for taking his side. Thankfully there are law abiding folk like yourself With common sense and courtesy to let us know.
Holy COW!!! My jaw dropped when I saw that picture. So Silverodo if you saw that then I can't say it's photo shopped. That would make a great photo shop picture to post on forums to get everyone worked up. The reason people should get worked up is because that is beyond stupid and selfish. That setup could easily take lives. I pull a 312 everyday and my truck and trailer just barely out wiegh the 312 and I'm constantly on edge. Just crazy that he did that.
My eyesight might be bad, even with glasses, but I can't see any chains holding that on either, did anyone else see chains and binders on that machine? As for making it work, I"ll pass on this one, its about as stupid as farmers pulling a 5-600 bushel gravity box loaded with their diesel pickup around me, but I hear all the time, I've got a duramax or powerstoke, it'll pull anything, to which I add, yea, but can it stop that load on a dime too. I didn't have a camera when another local contractor came through town with his 3/4 ton duramax and a 311 loaded on his tilt bed skid steer trailer, and not one chain or binder on it either.
There was a guy hauling and 120 up hill around a corner with no chains or binders , and the machine shifted and the excavator and trailer tipped right over. It was being towed by a four axle dump truck.luckily there were no cars in the other lane at the time. The excavator was not owned by the guy hauling it,as I know the owner of it. I'd bet he chains equipment now when he hauls it.It gets pretty grainy when you zoom it in but I think I can make out chain binders dirrectly to the tracks on the front right side, and possibly a chain across the bucket and maybe the off side chain on the left side of the pic, but its hard to tell because of the resolution.
I know quite a few guys that arent afraid to haul tracked equipment around without chains, a guy used to hear about someone loosing an excavator that way on a short move between jobs, but its been about 10 years since I've heard of it happening locally, word kinda gets around. I've never done it, but had to discuss the matter with the little brother when he wanted to move the dozer a few miles unchained, up down and around on the county road. Odds are nothing would of happened but my lucks never been that good so I try not to push it .
I see a guy hauling a 307 around here pretty consistantly on a tag trailer behind his ford diesel lately. seems to do it, but I'd like to see what the hitch looks like, not sure how far I would trust a 10 year old factory reciever hitch thats been subject to MN winters and was probably originally rated for about half the wieght its currently handling