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  1. Apr 9, 2013 #11
    critters

    critters <b>Late For Dinner</b>

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    I have moved some rigs in the past. our stretch trailers amaze me somtimes how well they hold up and bounce back.
     
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  3. Apr 9, 2013 #12
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    That's just a bone head move by a tandem hand. He should have known that sliding it down your trailer it would go to the heavy side and with it being stretched out it would be limber as hell. Sometimes I can't believe what the new Oilfield is coming to most of the old hands are gone and the young ones know too much to learn anything from the old guys. Looks like Hodges yard?
     
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  4. Apr 9, 2013 #13
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    Jackpot. Seems like there is a side brace on the left hand side of this unit that was to be moved inside, to another bracket for shipping.
    The crew that lded. me never moved it in.
    Me not ever hauling this piece before did not know.
    I offset it 12" to the right to balance on the trailer.
    Then they went to winch it off the trl and it slide to the left.
    They took a big rubber tired loader with forks and pushed it to the right some.
    Then started winching it forward some more and then it slid off my trailer.

    This is when they noticed the bar was not in the right position for hauling.
    They asked me about it and I said, first time for me hauling this piece and I told them at the load out site I had never done one before.
    It was not Hodges loading us out. Some company called mid east Ohio, I believe it was.
    Took them 9 hours to ld. 7 trks. that day
     
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  5. Apr 9, 2013 #14
    haulhand

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    I can believe that. I had Mid East come unload a shack off me one day he sucked if across fine but misjudged center and dug it off the end of my trailer dropping it on the ground hard. I had tried to stop him even convinced him once it wasn't far enough but then I was told that I was just a slick hand and didn't know #### about winch trucks so I quit trying to help. He bought that camp that day and my customer asked him why he didn't follow my directions and got the same response then informed him that I had started in a gin truck at age 13 and had been a truck pusher for the last 3 years and maybe he shouldn't discredit people do quickly. Luckily it was a customer that I had been working with for 10 years that had been transferred out to clean up that yard wish now I would have moved trucks back there for him.
     
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  7. Apr 9, 2013 #15
    Big Don

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    Uh-huh. Took that last turn too fast, didn't ya!:biggrin_2559::biggrin_25525:

    Never seen a trailer like that before! Are they fairly uncommon? I take it that the rear section slides back and forth?
     
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  8. Apr 10, 2013 #16
    passingthru69

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    Big Don, It's a stretch trl. More and more people are starting to get them. So the rates have tanked some.
    Yes it slides forward and back. There are a set of lock pins, so when you get to where the holes are in the inner frame you lock it into place.
    This trl. can open to 50' in the lower deck.
    When you open that far you really have to watch for the center going negative. This is when you have to chain the trl. to the load to try and keep it level. Or use deck shims.
     
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  9. Apr 10, 2013 #17
    Big Don

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    Thank you passingthru! I know very little about flatbeds, but even though I'll never drive again, I find it interesting!
     
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  10. Apr 10, 2013 #18
    TripleSix

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    interesting isn't the word. Say for example 69 has a stretch load, trailer is stretch out 12 feet. Load is also over height. His permit says he has to 'ramp it' at a particular exit to avoid a low overpass. Because of the length of the trailer, odds are pretty good that he may possibly high center the trailer on the crown of the road. What do you do if you have to ramp an exit on a stretch rgn and the road has a good sized crown? What can you do?

    (Everyone that's done it before, mums the word.)
     
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  11. Apr 10, 2013 #19
    Big Don

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    Beats the hell out of me! Unless you give the load to your co-driver and let him work it out.:biggrin_25526:
     
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  12. Apr 10, 2013 #20
    passingthru69

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    Gas on it and hope you don't high center.:biggrin_2559:

    No really you raise your air ride all the way up. Those who have hdy. necks can raise them up to help get more ground clearance.Just hope you have no overhead wires hanging low. Us poor folks with the mechanial necks have learned to have neck shims to help bring the deck hgt. up some.
    Then some times you have to drop your air and re measure the bridge hgt. Then drag it under the bridge. drag the frame on the ground not the ld. on the bridge.
     
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