Would air bags help??

[terb]

 

[bcbender]

hahaha....

 

[dpotter]

That's what you get when you send a 1500 to do a 2500's job.

 

[Cummins2014]

That hurts !!!

 

[Ltngdrvr]

Guy is the son of this guy!
#ad

 

[Ozymandias]

Oh, well, 6 cubic yard of sand dropped into the front of the trailer was probably a bit to much tongue weight.

 

[JR]

Are we really to believe the frame buckled before the hitch did?

Guy is the son of this guy!
#ad

This clown must be the grandson!

 

[Ltngdrvr]

Nah, that's a foreigner, not related...

 

[Topzide]

Guy's have been debating this over on TBN for about a week or so! Funny how people say to fill the trailer up not knowing the weight of the material being put into it! Those single axle trailers can handle way more than they're rated for! A buddy of mine had one, rated at 5k and he filled with household demo and had 10K in it when hitting scale at dump! He had his behind a GMC 2500 with 9 leaf spring pack. Was a former plow and salt truck, Told him to watch the frame!!!

 

[kthaxton]

Are we really to believe the frame buckled before the hitch did?




This clown must be the grandson!


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That one is photoshopped.

 

[AH64ID]

Are we really to believe the frame buckled before the hitch did?

It does seem odd, doesn’t it.

Then again the hitches are very stout, very well attached, and with a coil rear suspension it will put a ton of force on the spring attachment point, unlike a leaf spring that has 2-5 points of contact on the frame (depending on spring/overload/bump stop configuration). Combined with the cantilever effect and it seems more possible.

 

[JR]

Without a back story I'm in agreement with Kthaxton on this one.

I can't see the stresses being enough just sitting there to bend the frame. I'm picturing the stress and fatigue a frame sees running down a rough highway or back road loaded at max GCWR year over year and am having a hard time seeing this happening to a new truck sitting stationary.

 

[AH64ID]

I think he was saying the hilux was photoshopped, which I agree with.

We don’t know the truck was stationary. The loader is parked wrong to have been loading. Maybe he was leaving and hit a rough stretch. That trailer alone is probably double the GVWR.

We may never get the whole story.

 

[JR]

The hilux definitely wasn't photo shopped. If you care to watch a video of a total tool destroying a perfectly good truck google Whistlin' Diesel Hilux or something like that. Just be warned, its around a half hour of your life you won't get back!

As to whether the truck was stationary or not, well, he's definitely in a gravel pit and the loader didn't make it far enough to get out of the picture. So maybe he made it a trailer length before it folded....if it folded.



Edit: I'll make it even easier to waste your day away

 

[AH64ID]

Well I would have lost money on that hilux being real. The photo looks quite fake.

Our gravel pits are big enough I can drive a 1/2 mile before leaving… and the roads aren’t smooth. The guy in the loader could have easily driven there when he heard about an issue on the radio. Would be cool to get the actual story.

 

[kthaxton]

Wow, sure looked photoshopped....the gravel just looks fishy by the right rear tire of the Toy.

 

[JR]

Our gravel pits are big enough I can drive a 1/2 mile before leaving… .

And I bet the pay loaders are much bigger too

 

[AH64ID]

And I bet the pay loaders are much bigger too

Not all of them, but most.

 

[Wiredawg]

Hiluxes were rated at 1.5 tons when I was in Iceland in the early 80s. They had like 7 leaves on the rears and 17.5 inch tires. They had naturally aspirated diesels that weren't fast, but could pull a house.

Sure hated to see that one destroyed, just like hated seeing the simian destroy the Ram TRX. Stupid as stupid does.

Cheers, Ron