Another M105 Tow Job

I saw this one going to sell iron today, the safety issues should be obvious, even with my cell phone photos. At least it was a 3/4 ton...





Glen

Dang, that doesn't even look like a grade 8 bolt, but I could be mistaken. The slop in it could make it shear right off though. Not smart!

And no lights, no safety chains, no brakes.

looking at the bumper and trailer light hook ups I would say that person is low on the IQ bell curve. I have towed things all across this country and not once have I bashed in my bumper or anything !
Cant fix stupid folks.

papercu said:

Did you see where the top of the tailgate has hit it? Wayne

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I see a dent in the top of the gate but can't say that the ring mounted on the trailer caused it as the truck appears to have lots of "love taps" on it.

One of the security personnel at Ft Meade ordered me to drop the tail gate on my truck. The other security officer with the K-9 dog told him I couldn't lower it. For two minutes they bickered back and forth to leave it alone or lower it.

Finally the K-9 officer that said leave it alone won out when he showed the other officer that the tail gate would hit the trailer jack mounted right behind the trailer lunette.

Idiots.

An accident about to happen. I hope none of us are behind him. Op maybe you should educate him..

I was smoked for time today, his turn is coming.... along with his buddy that had a tandem axle trailer with most of a motor grader stacked on it, no lights, no brakes, bald tires, no safety chains, stacked about 8 feet tall with a single nylon ratchet strap... being towed behind an extended cab F150. Probably on a 12M tag...

lets hope the trailer is going to be left at the scrap yard and that he does not use this setup every day to haul scrap.

Now I know how to convert my 105's for civvi use!!

(Foghorn Leghorn voice) "That boy's dumber than a pound of sand."

that doesn't even look like a grade 8 bolt, but I could be mistaken

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That's just dumb and funny at the same time.

Grade 8 bolts can have a clear or yellow zinc finish. Yellow being more prevalent. You can get grade 2 in yellow zinc.

Ill bet he doesnt have insurance either.

Eghads! At least use a longer bolt and "double nut" the bottom of it. Or better yet, use a dedicated "farm wagon"type pin with a "bobby pin"clip in the bottom.

michigandon said:

Eghads! At least use a longer bolt and "double nut" the bottom of it. Or better yet, use a dedicated "farm wagon"type pin with a "bobby pin"clip in the bottom.

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I was going to say the rig looked like something set up to tow with a farm tractor. Expect to see a slow moving vehicle triangle on the back.

The shear of a hardened bolt is interesting. John Deere uses hardened bolts as shear pins on their small square balers. When they shear it is right now and a clean seperation. In desperation one Sunday afternoon I found I could use a grade 5 bolt which raised the shear point because the bolt wanted to distort rather than shear. This makes a mess of the bolt replacement because the softer bolt is stuck in the hole and has to be driven out with a pin punch. Maybe the owner of the scrap trailer is counting on some bolt flex to keep from shearing the bolt off. ~~ I wonder what the cross sectional area of the bolt is compared to the original lunette?

All I know is that is some farm engineering right there........I know. Cause I'm a farm boy........But if I do that it's not leavin' tha farm. And I did it cause it's an Easter Sunday and I just had to make do...........Funny thing is that will probably hold up and be haulin scrap iron even after the apocalypse happens.

Of course if any of us did that it would have run over a car load of children on their way to Sunday school 2 miles after we left with it and we'd be handcuffed........So maybe this is the charmed life that guy is going to be payin for when he's reincarnated.

An accident waiting to happen.

You have to be kidding me. That has to be photo shopped. No one is that stupid !!!!!