- Location
- Darlington
Wreckers!!
- Thread starter Kevtherev
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spanners and hammers
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- Location
- cambridgeshire
it only a 2by 4 if it american spec if it british it would be 4 by 2 
H200GT
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- Location
- NORTH WALES
Exactly, I’ve seen silage traikers, muck spreaders an slurry tankers on trailers like that with no problem as long as they’re loaded with correct amount of nose weight. For that LR they should have removed headboard and fitted a lower one so as to over hang the bumper over the front.
Has any one read the Facebook comments? Apparently it was the fault of the trailer and load being heavier than towing vehicle so was expected!!
Reminds me a few years ago i went to collect an old slurry tanker for parts in Anglesey. Loaded on to tri axle ifor with handler. I was assured by the vendor it was completely empty and to be fair it didn’t look bad at all on the Ifor or on the handler whilst loading, but I had a suspicion it was possibly a little heavy for an empty tanker.
Anyhow strapped up and off we set, and about 200yds out on B road that led to the farm I decided to preform a brake test to gauge the weight on the trailer. As the overrun brake kicked in and the load left in the tanker moved, the shogun tow bar slammed into the tarmac leaving it firmly planted on the road
Needless to say the vendor was summoned and it was unloaded there and then. We did a deal on some of the parts and stripped the tanker and left the rest for scrap.
lesson learned
e5c0rt.mk1
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- Location
- Yorkshire
Kevm
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Nice Mog, shame the trailer wasn't the same sort of standard.
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Think if that was going to the scrap yard, I hope he had a waste transfer license,!,
That’s a lot of unsecured weight h.c.o.g and a smooth metal floor add in the bend and speed equals the inevitable
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
@mogman Anything you would like to tell us?
Dman2
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- Location
- Durham, UK
and 2wd
- Location
- Northern Ireland
My elderly dad, dear love him, got caught out on a snowy night. Ridge of snow in the middle of the road was hard packed, wandered into it momentarily, and the rest is history. This is the defender half pulled up out of the ditch, but the little Kramer didn't have the guts to get it the rest of the way. Had to set it back down again and call for the neighbours 320s.
Everything in the back of course ended up in the front. Including a full bucket of sand, which he had taken with him to use on an icy lane. And so the sand was in all the front pockets, the radio, the windscreen heater vents etc. Was coming out of her for months after. Pretty scary thing for an old boy.
- Location
- South wales
Lucky father indeed made me chuckle the thought of getting sand blasted for months after using the heater
Mr Charisma
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- Location
- stratford on Avon
We used to have a old chap that used to drive around in a old Reliant Robin van many years ago , for a fair few years he used to swear by putting a couple of paving slab's in the back when we had some snow ,,,,,,,, always remember seeing his Robin after the front wheel had decided it was going to go the way he wanted and he ended up rolling it , he reckoned that he thought these slabs were going to join him in the front for a second or two but luckily for him they went out through the roof ,,,,,,,,,, took it down the local canoe man to get it patched up afterwards
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Good story!
I still to this day can't work out how he managed to climb out of it. I mean it was absolutely vertical standing on its nose in an 8' deep ditch. So when he would have opened the door there was nothing to stand on except the door itself!
I still to this day can't work out how he managed to climb out of it. I mean it was absolutely vertical standing on its nose in an 8' deep ditch. So when he would have opened the door there was nothing to stand on except the door itself!
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Seen this on insta earlier 
rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
Rear tyres look like they could do with a bit more wind in them.