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Overload of the Day

Willie B

Willie B

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The thing all farmers have in common: All are gamblers.
They gamble on hundreds of things beyond their control. Many are very proud of the risks they take & get away with. They'll brag about it.
I see it at its worst in electrical safety, and highway safety.
Here, feed is mostly hay, or ensilage. Any grain fed is purchased from out of state. Hay is baled in the field, wrapped in plastic & some of it is left there.
Ensilage is chopped & hauled wet, usually in four wheeled wagons. The derelict condition of these wagons would terrify other motorists if they knew. I see one farmer with a rusted out 30 year old Four cylinder Ford Ranger towing 18000 LB wagons up a mile long hill very steep! At highway speed the whipping in the steering gear is terrifying. No brakes at all on these wagons. No lights on either truck or wagons.
I'm not aware of any tickets ever being issued.
 
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Dom

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Moncton, NB, Canada
Things are alot better over here for old farmers gear on the road. The old joke used to be that when a highway truck is completely worn and not longer safe, it gets converted to a dump truck until its dead. Then the farmer resurrects the dump truck into a potato truck.
Happily we do not see this much anymore.
 
Truck Shop

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Then you have farmer like one I knew years back. The roads on his property were smooth/graded, his equipment
well taken care of and pressure washed after use. His trucks were in very good condition and would pass a DOT
inspection on any day. Every part of his farm was well taken care of by he and his two sons. Clarence was
a very successful farmer well liked by everyone.
 
Willie B

Willie B

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Truck Shop said:
Then you have farmer like one I knew years back. The roads on his property were smooth/graded, his equipment
well taken care of and pressure washed after use. His trucks were in very good condition and would pass a DOT
inspection on any day. Every part of his farm was well taken care of by he and his two sons. Clarence was
a very successful farmer well liked by everyone.
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I too have met such a farmer. He is the exception, not the rule.
 
DMiller

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Hermann, Missouri
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Got a SCOSH carried away loading clay at the pit this morning, noted it was pulling like a lead balloon all the way to drop point. Got onto scale at delivery point, 74xxx+ so Just a TAD overloaded for a quad dump truck. Total product aboard, 47xxx+.
 
DMiller

DMiller

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Can carry 20t 'legitimately', truck is licensed for 72k as they at one time did work the St Louis Commercial Zone where not limited to gross but axle weights.
 
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gwhammy

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That heavy haul zone is crazy. I had a guy show up at a Richmond Mo. job I was on with 36 ton of rock on a dump truck. I think he had 3 drops maybe 4 on and raised them to come in on the job site on the tandems and front axle weighing a hair under 100,000 lbs. My poor old tandem feels really heavy weighing 56,000.
 
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Walker1

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Cave Creek AZ
Truck Shop said:
Then you have farmer like one I knew years back. The roads on his property were smooth/graded, his equipment
well taken care of and pressure washed after use. His trucks were in very good condition and would pass a DOT
inspection on any day. Every part of his farm was well taken care of by he and his two sons. Clarence was
a very successful farmer well liked by everyone.
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Was he 13’6” tall and lived on one bank of the Mississippi?
 
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Nige

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G..G..G..Granville.........!! Fetch your cloth.
Willie B said:
The thing all farmers have in common: All are gamblers.
They gamble on hundreds of things beyond their control. Many are very proud of the risks they take & get away with. They'll brag about it.
I see it at its worst in electrical safety, and highway safety.
Here, feed is mostly hay, or ensilage. Any grain fed is purchased from out of state. Hay is baled in the field, wrapped in plastic & some of it is left there.
Ensilage is chopped & hauled wet, usually in four wheeled wagons. The derelict condition of these wagons would terrify other motorists if they knew. I see one farmer with a rusted out 30 year old Four cylinder Ford Ranger towing 18000 LB wagons up a mile long hill very steep! At highway speed the whipping in the steering gear is terrifying. No brakes at all on these wagons. No lights on either truck or wagons.
I'm not aware of any tickets ever being issued.
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You forgot to mention the most common trait of farmers Willie. Short arms and deep pockets.......
 
skyking1

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washington
Nice! we had an 05 pilot and towed a ~2000 pound tent trailer like it was not there. Good times. @4300 pounds, the Pilot was a solid tow platform with a 3500 pound rating for boats and 3000 for travel trailer. They actually took into account the wind loads on the drive train that a big box adds.
 
DatCoonAss

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Mississippi USA
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lol yeah.... didnt get a pic but yesterday we saw a 2500 dodge hd towing a huge ass box truck with that hooked to a f350 pick up like truck-boat-truck style.......

I was like what the hell?
 
Truck Shop

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Not a Over load but just had a sysco truck leave the yard with the Maxon rail lift gate
down dragging-went out and hit the freeway. I could hear it 1/3 of a mile away.
Guess that's what happens on Monday mornings after a weekend on the bottle.
 
Crummy

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Maybe he was axled out and needed to take some weight off before he crossed the scales. Lift gate, lift axle same-same.
 
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