Vehicle towing limits

spark plug said:

Was it just me or did tying things on pickups not used to be a thing, I remember on many occasions as a young boy being sat on the back of the old Sherpa pickup and told to hold onto whatever it was being transported?

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Cab-over Pete said:

I could honestly write a book about him.

From about the age of 11, me riding on the back of an old flat trailer load of round bale silage at midnight with a torch in my hand covered with a red rag to give a rear light, to driving the MF 165 we now have restored at 14 years old (“It’ll be fine, just don’t hit anyone”) on the road to cart silage, to getting pulled over by the rozzers for having no rear lights and a big trailed mower on the back (“I’ll just leave it in the next lay-by officer and collect it in the morning”), to losing a wheel off a trailer on the dual carriageway, to having a bloke bounce off his rear terra tyre and then cannon across the main road, to convincing his mate to tow an artic bale trailer home from a farm sale on the back of his Land Rover Series one, to bringing a Wiltshire Horn ram, content on destroying Uncle Jimmys Morris Minor van from the inside out with his horns (“It’s fine, we’ll hold a horn a piece, you steer, I’ll change gear”).

He was the best sort of Dad anyone could have wished for. He died aged 54 and I so wish I appreciated him more at the time. And now, as the years pass, I can see him more and more in my brother, who was his right hand man.

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Robt said:

Nope , they knacker for fun around 120k due to the owners want to fix them and blog about it…. Mine is now on 116k. I’m getting a gimble a wobbly tripod for just that experience….

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