The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

thanks for that mental picture arrrgggh

 

This is for real. I once followed a deadheading flatbedder in Texas with a strap flying around his trailer tires. The strap finally caught under a tire and yanked his ladder out of the dunnage rack. He ran over it with his passenger set of spreads.

I finally managed to get even with him in a passing zone, honked my horn and pointed back at his trailer.

No comprende.

I ran ahead of him, found a wide turn out, stopped and flagged him down. His front brake can was toast, the mud flap on his front axle was gone, and the outside tire had a bulging gouge.

Have straps or chains getting loose can get costly and deadly in a hurry.

 

Would about a 1/4 mile of new 5 strand barbed wire fence wrapped around the tracks and final of a D 9 count? I never did the spud truck thing. lol

 

You win! Lol.
I know a old bed spring mattress will stop a D4 in a hurry!

 

I had a ratchet strap break on me . the excess part of my strap. I had it tucked into the ratchet strap handle.the one time i forgot to put bungee on it . it came loose , i was pulling a grade between phoenix and payson. Going about 15 miles per hour. Strap came lose , i said #### i know theres a break check up ahead right before down grade, needless to say i didnt make it there. Strap got caught in the wheel , ripped my 4inch ratchet completely off the trailer

 

How about green Timothy grass wrapped up aroung the augar of a swather header!!!... Ive done both the spud vine thing and the Timothy grass... I'll take the spud vines. At least you have room to work on a drive line... Nit a lot of room in A swather header to move around!!!

 

I followed a guy hauling a smashed up truck on a lowboy through Omaha last fall... He had a strap tail flapping in the wind threatening to get caught in the trailer tires. I hollared at him on the radio and told him about it... His response "No I don't! Mind your own F'n business!!"... I said "Fine, I hope it gets caught and causes you all sorts of hell, if thats how you want to respond to a friendly heads up." He started giving me the 3rd degree over the radio so I just shut it off at that point and passed him with a friendly wave.

 

The worst thing I can think of at the moment was
combining soybeans years ago with a old gleaner L walker combine.
The farmer I was cutting for wanted to chop the straw for bedding. I had the belt off the chopper and had it slid forward under the walkers so I could drop a windrow for him.
Non of the shaft sensors worked on the old girl so it was a drive by sound and feel.
I'm going along and something just didn't feel right. By the time I got stopped and let the machine empty out she's shaking pretty good.
Get out and take a look. I didn't have a windrow behind me for most of the length of the field.
That ain't good...
Turns out the bolts I had holding the chopper fell out and it rattled its way back and plugged the discharge. Them walkers had a large square bale packed in the axx end so tight a baler would have been proud.

 

Lol... Yeah I can relate to the "by sound and feel" thing... Ive run ALOT of old equipment that that was just how you had to do it.

 

How is that run from payson to Phoenix?
I'm delivering into OK, Payson, then Phoenix this weekend.