Bring enough truck... and trailer!

[Warbird]

The trailer is my dad's, the truck is mine.  When I told him about the first time I posted those pics here, making fun of Chevy's, he said he wanted his trailer back.   

[Brucer]

That particular loader has a lifting capacity of just under 20,000 pounds. It had no trouble picking up that log, so nobody had a clue how much it was actually lifting.

Seen that situation more than once  . Leastwise, by putting it that far forward on the trailer the loader didn't bang up the trailer fenders :D.

[easymoney]

 he probably wanted it loaded foreward enough that he would not have any trouble getting traction. ;D

[maple flats]

If he had it loaded just behind the fenders he could have shifted into 4 wd and driven home without the rear tires touching the road. I wonder if it was a borrowed pick up? He likely blamed the loader operator for not centering the load.

[rowerwet]

I was at the boat ramp once watching some guys pull in after a long day deep sea fishing, (they had an empty cooler so you could tell it was a long day) the guy driving the boat couldn't hit the trailer correctly so he got it close and tried to use the winch to pull it on the last few feet. The boat was a large inboard with a cabin, and heavy, the cable broke and they used the anchor rope to tie the boat to the winch, about 3 feet short! the full size bronco pulled the boat up the ramp, and off they went, every time they hit a bump the aft end of the boat left a good scar on the road and the rear axel was almost off the ground.

[DanG]

It ain't hard to find overloads, misloads, and otherwise unsafe trailers.

About the worst I have seen was in Indiana when Tnlogger, Woodbowl and I were enroute to the '06 Piggy Roast.  We kept smelling something foul, and Tnlogger and I kept looking askance at Woodbowl, who denied any wrongdoing. :D  Finally, we realized that it was propane we were smelling.  Shortly we came upon an old pickup towing not one, but two 16' trailers loaded to the gills with old propane tanks.  The tanks were piled on the trailers and the truck, and "secured" with old fence wire.  They were literally hanging off the sides, and spewing propane everywhere!  Needless to say, I put the pedal to the metal and got around them as quickly as I could.  The last place I wanted to be was behind him!

[Banjo picker]

From my standpoint , i wouldn't haul that log home for it.  I know some of the other type mills you guys have will carve it up but on my band those bigens are too much trouble.  I got one large one and 3 halves laying out there right now that I just dread to cut.  Too bad fishfarmer is so far a way. :D  that big bad boy of his would do it.  Tim