Best RAM crash pics

[azcummins]

I'm looking for the best pictures you have of a wrecked RAM. yours or someone else's. Stories would be good too. I'm interested to see how mine would crunch when I hit that rice burner that cuts me off...

 

[MCummings]

ohh, your evil

There's been a few wrecked ram pics floatin' around,, MDW's Texas Red Rocket is one truck I remember, and I don't know if Danandme ever took pics of his truck.



I can host some pics on my server and post them here (I'll try to resize them to load quickly)



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MerrickNJr

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Willyslover and Papa Joe both have some good munched Ram pics. Willyslover tangled with some trees in the hills near his place in California and Papa Joe had someone cross the center line and strike a glancing blow on the driver's side.



Vaughn

 

[roycrown]

I hate rice burners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Adam_Dodgezilla]

I have some!!

I have some picture at home I'll scan them and post them on here!

 

[Dave Fritz]

I have a small collection of bent Rams more bent rams and more bent Rams posted. Plus I have a whole pile of junkyard photos that will eventually be posted (I need about 30 more hours in a day!).



Dave

 

[azcummins]

Cool! I'll try to keep my RAM on the road. I'd hate to see the white monster on one of these pages.

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Here is my battering RAM



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and here was my target

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[chuck3]

Jeff, I hate to tell you but that car still has a body in it.

 

[MidwestMotorman]

3500 crashes

WOW those 3500s looked to have a hard ride. The one fellow flipped his load because he ran a gooseneck ball with a car hauler... a defiinite no-no.



The other one shot out the front end... see the driveshaft in the bed. Probably toasted the t-case too. Nice rig otherwise.



I see lots of crashes from my autobody work, and I quite frequently look at a rebuilder or two. Only problem there, absolutely no warrantee on them.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Re: 3500 crashes

Originally posted by nathanbush

WOW those 3500s looked to have a hard ride. The one fellow flipped his load because he ran a gooseneck ball with a car hauler... a defiinite no-no.

Nathan,



While searching the net' for trailers, I have seen a lot of car haulers. I don't recall seeing any without the gooseneck. In fact, this one towing company I drive by has one that is a class 6 or 7 application.



I am not shopping, just curious why it is a no-no.

 

[DarrellB]

Repeat after me; I will not drink and drive, I will not pull a trailer at or near 90mph, I will stay awake while driving and will not park under any large rotten trees. I willl not do these things because I know they are unsafe and most of all stupid and could cause harm to my truck and most importantly myself or others.



wow



I can't stand to see that many nice trucks crunched at one time. I think I need to go cry now.



Big D

 

[azcummins]

Too bad I don't have a pic of my '97 underwater with the clearance lights on.



Note: Parking Brake Doesn't work.

 

[MidwestMotorman]

car haulers

I have seen very few car haulers with the gooseneck. The only ones I have seen were for semis, and they had lots of undercarriage support. Anyhow, the reason that a fifth wheel should be used, is due to the trailers' flexibility (less trailer weight so more payload) and the added flexibility from mounting on a gooseneck ball. A fifth wheel hitch is more stable and has a better locking power upon the kingpin.



Hideabed Inc will only use fifth wheel hitches on their trailers, except for one small exception. They will use a gooseneck hitch to pull the trailers off of the assembly line and out into the yard. When customers inquire, they flat out admit that their trailers are too flexible for a gooseneck and will pop them off of the ball. They actually show inquisitive customers what happens. They hook onto a trailer, drive it into the parking lot, and will pop them off right there in the lot for the customers to see. I had the pleasure of talking to a long-time engineer, and now salesman, and he informed me to these facts, and to other car hauler designs. Goosenecks are designed to carry a lot of weight upon the ball, and car haulers just don't do that. They stay light and flexible, except for the designs that have a lower floor frame level with the axle centerline or are fully supported from there up to an angled ramp.



That car hauler in the pic sat way high, and looked light. It also looked like the owner used a gooseneck adapter instead of an original equipment fifth wheel hitch. It wrecked right at an intersection, and I suspect he hooked a tire onto a curb, flexed the trailer off of the ball, and dumped it all right there.



Sorry for the long post.

 

[DarrellB]

I pulled a car hauler for about a month to make some extra $$$$ and I will never do it again. Those things are scary as hell to pull, real light and when you get them into a bind they make the scariest groaning sound on the goose neck. It kind of sounds like your running over a cat.



Big D

 

[MidwestMotorman]

ouch

Better to hear a groan than to see it sitting in the next lane or in the cab with you! I did not notice any safety chains on that car hauler crash pic. Maybe the pic quality was not that good and I missed them? Gotta have any gooseneck chained down. If you wreck with a fifth, the trailer goes with you, but most goosencks don't. Had a personal view of one unlucky fellow's rig that lost the whole right half of his cab on a loose gooseneck trailer post that stoppped at the right edge of his hood.

 

[klenger]

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[DarrellB]

I've seen quite a few tailgates turned into large horse shoes because idiots don't latch the damn thing down before they take off. I even seen one guy with half his bed ripped off like that 3500 in the picture said the trailer came loose in a corner and tried to folow him threw it.



Ever use those little buckel type tie down? I had 2 of them come loose on me one time and almost lost 2 ATVs off the back of my trailer. You would be surprised how fast you can find a pulloff when your 6K 4wheeler is hanging off the back of your trailer. Now I always double check everything and then check it all again every time I make a stop. ):



Be careful and tow smart.

Big D:

 

[FFutch]

Looking at those pics is kind of like watching "faces of death" . I hope I never see my baby that injured. Doug

 

[Okie-Go]

This is one place I hope I don't have a picture posted.