What's the worst thing you've had Fall off a trailer?

[GotDiesel]

Mine may not be as bad as yours but here goes! Imagine towing a 16'covered trailer loaded with new cabinets, behind your brand new Turbo diesel(less than a month old not a scratch),early in the morning leaving the house heading for work and go over a bump in the road look back to check everything out and low and behold your trailer is doing a wheelie behind you!!I just about crapped in my pants! I could just see my beautiful new truck being rearended by this runaway trailer,but I had no where to go, with oncoming traffic,so I decided i had better let it hit me than someone else. I was just starting to hit the brakes and wait for the impact when it suddenly veered off to the right came down with sparks flying everywhere and came to a rest in my neighbors front yard. Luckily for me it had torn off the safety chains when it came off the hitch. I still get goosebumps just thinking about how close i came to losing it all. Man did I feel stupid, kids were on their way to school just sat there busting a gut, talk about embarrasing! It took me about an hour to get it hitched back up and destroyed the trailer jack and all the wiring in the process. We found out the reason it came undone was that it had one of those hitches that you have to kick in to get it to close on the side, and I being in a hurry that morning just plain forgot to double check it,never again!!!

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Joe Pazdera 1999 4x4(last of the best)2500 SLE loaded evething but leather. Just stock for now, but soon... BOOM!

 

[Case500D]

My first truck was (still have it too) a 1978 heavy 3/4 ton Chevy (the truck and I are the same age . One of my first jobs was mowing yards. I just happened to have an old Allis Chalmers mower that was 10 years older than the truck. Well the parking brake didn't work too well on the mower and I was just going around the block in a 1 horse town and the excitement began. The Allis left the trailer just as I shifted into second gear going around a corner. It landed on its wheels, but the mower deck fell off. It then kept rolling. The tail gate also go tore off the trailer. The best part is that it all happened right in front of a church in the middle of a wedding. (Dang it all to heck anyway) I also had to restart the mower in the middle of the road and reload it and if anyone had been around a 16 hp Kohler one cylinder, they know it is not quiet at all. I sure caught a lot of flak over that little adventure the next Sunday.

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Jeremy Sweeten
1992 Dodge W-250 4x4
Cummins Diesel, Intercooled,
LE Package, 165K, AT, Warner Hubs, 3. 54 limited slip differentials, 3" straight pipe, K&N air filter
http://home.earthlink.net/~sweeten1/index.htm

 

[Champane Flight]

Well I guess this falls under falling off thing. I was pulling a flatbed with cold rolled steel on it. It was wrapped with oiled paper. The whole loaded was chained down. As I was bopping down the Interstate a small sports car with two guys started to pass me. They got up to the back of the trailer and a large piece of oiled paper came off and wrapped around their windshield!
I started to pull over since they went into the median throwing dirt and dust. As I was almost pulled over they came out of the median with the passenger pulling the paper off of the windshield. I was slowed quite a bit when they came around me and the passenger had a pistol out the window and took a shot at me!!!!!This was a fun day!They kept going.

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95 Dodge 2500 Luverne grill guard,headache rack,running boards and Amzoiled. Soon to be mildly bombed. 84 Dodge d-150, 318 Hooker headers,Edelbrok intake,mallory ignition,Carter Afb,Accel coil,and Custom dual exhaust. Boat,fifthwheel,motorcycles,and shop,job to support toys. Yuck...

 

[Ramrod]

I hope it was a paintball gun.

Anyway, I was towing my prized Porsche from Boca Raton to Sebring a few years back. My car trailer has a front section that is made out of fibreglass. Its to protect whatever is on the trailer. Well my 2500 was 2 months old. I was 1000 miles from home. Just getting divorced and on Vacation. I leave my cousins house around 4 in the morning. I drive to Sebring. I get out and see all this traffic paint all over the truck. The front of the new trailer is also covered with this thick white paint. It looks like drywall mud. Man was I ****** . I did not see any trucks marking lines. No signs anywhere either. I even had a little paint go around the front via the wind onto the Porsche.

Long story short. I had to get it all detailed when I got home. The front of the trailer was never the same again. It did not look good until this last year when I sandblasted the whole thing and repainted the trailer.

My falling off the trailer stories, I care not to remember those numerous times.

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98 3500 12v 4x4 Quad Cab SLT Larimie, All the bombing parts accumulating on my workbench. A few more on order, and a few coming from Santa.

80 Porsche 911 SC Turbo Look Porsche Club Racing Trackcar, Totally Bombed
Cannondale Killer V 900 SL

 

[Wiredawg]

I was towing my father-in-law's bass boat in Alabama on a winding country road when it came off the trailer. My insurance wouldn't cover it and he didn't have it insured. He never quite got over it.

Wiredawg

 

[CUMAPART]

Well it didn't actually fall off the trailer the trailer fell off the truck. I lost a John Deere 8875 skid steer with the backhoe attatchment while doing 65mph heading north on 81. Not a pretty picture.

 

[bandit]

Cummins power rules! Okay, now I'll explain. I'm a sheriff's deputy in North Idaho, and this didn't happen to me, but heard about it on the radio while I was working: One night about a year ago, a semi was pulling a trailer eastbound on I-90 just out of Coeurd'Alene, Idaho. I-90 is a 7+/-% grade for about 2. 5mi up and over a spot called Mullan Trail (an exit is there). The roadway is very curvy and bordered on both sides (two lanes each direction) with concrete median blocks. Ever been to a waterslide park? Yeah, you get the picture, this bit of road is a double-sided trough. So this trucker is driving one of the finest (I assume it looked good before the "incident")trucks ever, a spanking '98 KW with a HiPo Cummins in it and a Fuller transmission. He said he made about 470hp, and you couldn't hook his truck up to a trailer heavy enough to slow it down. So anyway, he's doing about 38-45mph (this was a fun calculation to make) at the very top of Mullan Trail, comes around the last corner on the outside lane, and decides he needs to **** , so he turns an extra few degrees to the right to enter the exit ramp. Well, he overturned his truck and trailer right there and broke his trailer open. He was carrying about 80K lbs of Washington red deliscious apples in cardboard boxes. Know how sh*t rolls down hill? Well, so do apples. Closed the easbound lanes for about a day while ID DOT and others picked up apples off the road from as far away as three miles! They continued to roll almost into the next day as we were trying to sort this mess out and get them cleaned up.

Good stuff,
Kody (using my Dad's computer)

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'93 W350 CC 4x4 5spd, Banks Stinger (turbo-tailpipe) kit.

 

[dpuckett]

I have a few, some of which I was not involved in.

I was about 13 or so (I had just started riding bulls), when my mom and I were taking a bunch of hay out back to feed the cattle. We were using a 1/2 ton PU trailer that is so common in SE MO, and I was on top of about 20 bales of hay behind a Ford 5000 tractor. We went through a mudhole, and I, along with half the hay, fell onto the roadway. Landed flat onmy back, unhurt, but sore.

A friend of mine's dad was and still is a rodeo stock contractor. They were going up a hill south of Cape Girardeau MO, and the back door of the trailer popped open and bull #95 (a former PBR bull used in Sr bull riding) fell right out the back door. Had a few scrapes, but nothing major.

I was hauling for a moving company, and my "helper" hooked up the trailer and lights. I didnt think to double check his work, since he had done it a hundred times before. We went up 287 in Loveland, and crossed the tracks, which were anything but smooth, and felt a jerk on the truck, and then heard a scraping sound. We looked, and the trailer was about 2 feet lower than it should be. We got it all together just before a cop turned onto the street from 4 blocks back. This time, we made sure the hitch was latched on the ball. Thanks once again for safety chains

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Daniel's current truck: 1993 W350 club cab, 5 speed, treadplate aluminum flatbed, 4. 10 rear end, straight pipes, K&N, "slightly" tweaked pump. ISSPRO color coded pyrometer and 50psi boost guage. IRBCTS.

 

[lschultz]

Lost a chair off a trailer one time when we were moving to new house,some mexicans stopped and picked it up and kept going(got a-- chewing from wife). My son had a deer stand blow off trailer on I 10
aroung Seguin. Luckily nobody ran into it.

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2000 Dodge 4x4 Quad Cab SWB 5-SP

 

[E7mack96]

I was driving a '78 mack 2 stick dump truck and lost the tailgate and half the load after going over a speed bump. funny thing is I didn't realize it 'til I got to the job site.

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2001 3500 QC 4X4 Cummins H. O. & 6 Speed, Powermax 2 and needing more power!!!!

 

[Andy Perreault]

I used to live in L. A. Next time you're in SoCal, just turn on your AM radio to one of the all-news stations (1070 or 980) in the afternoon, they do traffic reports every few minutes. I'm telling you, everyday there is something weird out there on the freeways! Sofas, chickens, lumber, suicidal maniacs, you name it. Add a high speed chase and some gunshots here and there, and miles and miles of congestion, and it's just another typical day in L. A. ! I don't miss living there, but sometimes I miss watching the local TV news #ad
. Nothing interesting happens in Seattle compared to L. A. ! Anybody remember back when there was a hippopotamus on the loose in Orange County? Or how about the guy in San Diego who stole a tank and went on a car crushing binge?
(Sorry to be drifting us off-subject!)
Andy #ad


[This message has been edited by Andy Perreault (edited 01-11-2001). ]

 

[illflem]

OK guys 50 posts now, time's up.

My vote for the worst load lost goes to Ram for Sam,for his loss of the contents of a 40 gallon holding tank.

Honorable mention goes to QRTRHRS for his tale of lumpy road salt.