Thread: Whats wrong with this picture

Tweet

You have the trailer overloaded .. The only way to fix it is to unload all the wood at my place ..

Well it's hard to tell from the photo, but the tongue started to bend.
Then I found a hair line crack on one side, so I spent today fixing it.
The wife and I went in to Vegas last tuesday to pick up the load of wood.
On our way back we were coming out of the mountains back down in to Pahrump,
when everyone started slamming on thier brakes. It was pitch black out there
you really could not tell what was going on. Then the wife say whats that in the road?
It was a ladies body!!! she had been walking down the middle of the highway and a
pick up hit her going the other way. Then a Pahrump police officer seen something was
wrong and came driving thru the scene and ran over the lady again. It was pretty sad.
We heard this week that the lady was homeless and only 49 years old.
Woman killed walking on highway | Pahrump Valley Times

Not pretty,Kurt..Feel sorry for those who hit her..We had a similar thing south of our town last year,,where one of my friends nearly hit someone on the highway in the rain,,and darkness,,then five minutes later,one of his workmates nearly hit him..Makes you wonder....I feel sorry for her family,too...Sad thing allround..

Being a trucker for most of my life I have seen alot of bad stuff like that on the roads.
The wife was telling me not to look, but I wanted to make sure there was nothing that could be done.
I have never seen a dead child on the road and hope I never do, I'm not sure I could handle that very well.
I have a freind here thats wife is with the police and he said that the police had evicted the woman a few
hours earlier from a motel. Maybe she was trying to commit suicide, I don't know.
I feel sad for those folks that have no one and no where to go.
To bad they didn't drop her off at a church or something.
Kurt

A little too much tonque weight on a little too small tonque material.Brian

Kurt was it like that before you had to slam on your brakes. I know wood is very heavy to haul, so was wondering if it was like that whem loaded, or after a quick stop?

Your right Brian, When I was buying the steel the guy assured me I would
not be able to bend the steel. Right, I told him for cars and such.
I wanted to use 2inch X 6 inch Box stuff, 1/4 inch thick.
Allways listen to your gut feeling.
It stayed like that after it was unloaded too, Stovens
I put a 3 ton floor jack under the front of the trailer { not the tongue } and lifted up the back of my
6,000 pound truck off the ground and it would not bend back. I then put some big C clamps on to help.
Took a couple pieces of 3 inch channel 2 feet long welded that in the back 1 foot before it started to bend.
Then put the C clamps around the the new pieces and the frame and tightened them down, got it with in 1 inch
of touching on the other end of the new pieces. I then welded down the sides and filled in the front with over laying welds.
Then ground down the crack which was above the frame where the trailer connected to the tongue on the passager side,
and welded that again. I don't belive this thing will bend again, since it's with in a few inches of the reciever.
But I have been wrong before, so who knows?
Kurt

Man, that is a bad, sad deal about the old lady. It sounds like the trailer repair turned out alright.

Here are some after photo's of the repair.
Gotta clean it up a little yet but it started to get windy.
So with a mig out side, it will blow away your gas shield.
So I'll wait to finish cleaning it up when it's not so windy.
Kurt
005 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Whats wrong with this picture

I was going to say bump up the exposure a little to pick up the details in the shadows...................
ooooooops wrong site.