Trailer fail pics

[Canadian Welding]

Saw this on another site. Couldn't help but share it...

[Gravel]

Saw this on another site. Couldn't help but share it...

Mind if I steal the idea for my 97 Olds?

[Bistineau]

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Isn't that called a Red Neck, Goose Neck hitch? What trailer weight rating is it good for? Ought to be good for at least 12,000 Lbs.

[Canadian Welding]

Isn't that called a Red Neck, Goose Neck hitch? What trailer weight rating is it good for? Ought to be good for at least 12,000 Lbs.

Aw ya. 12000 easy. Throw some hockey pucks in there for a bump stop and you will have 30000 EASY!

[Canadian Welding]

Mind if I steal the idea for my 97 Olds?

Go ahead. I am now installing them on civics as well!

[MinnesotaDave]

This is still my fav

[fdude64]

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I saw one of these on a Cadillac coup deville once. the guy pulled a skid loader and hay bales on a dove tail gooseneck trailer. atleast he did have a brake controller in it too.

[KMcCurdy]

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Yikes!

[fdude64]

the one I saw was attached to the frame through the trunk and had a guard between the ball and the window.

[Michgriz]

I saw this one on the way home last night. I didn't want to stay behind it to get a better picture.

[Michgriz]

Sorry don't know how to rotate the picture

[Gravel]

Won't hurt a bit if it hits your grill.

[Michgriz]

I should mention the gate was in the trailer because it broke off and took the rear cross member of the trailer with it. Those boards were waving at people, and the side were flexing all over the place on every bump. The lights weren't working either, but that is pretty common around here.

[mad welder 4]

The lights weren't working either, but that is pretty common around here.

What state is that?

[Michgriz]

Michigan, I would say about half the trailers I see don't have working lights. I think there is something about if you can see the tow vehicle lights you don't need them or something like that. My trailers get checked out before every trip and don't leave unless all lights are working.

[mad welder 4]

Thats too bad.
I would say most of the new trailers have working lights. Most of the old ones dont.
Problem is most of the trailers around here are real odd.

Most trailer light problems are caused by bad ground, where they connect the wire to the frame. I think that is idiotic unless you can some how avoid ever coming in contact with liquid water.
Its not really not that hard to put all the lights on a ground wire and use all weather proof connectors.
If you do that you wont have a light problem till a bulb burns out or you let some one barrow your trailer and they break a light or 2 off.

I replaced the lights with LEDs on my trailer and put everything on a ground wire with sealed connectors in 2008 and I may have replaced a flat 4 connector since then.

[Chad22]

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Nifty idea. I should add one of those to my 1992 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton pickups hood. No really I should as a hood ornament.

Course I wouldn't actually use it to move a trailer.

Chad

[lugweld]

This is still my fav

I remember seeing something like that when I was a kid...ohh..the campgrounds we went to.

[12345678910]

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Well hell, we've seen this photo six times already, let's go for 7

[Canadian Welding]

Nifty idea. I should add one of those to my 1992 Chevy Silverado 1/2 ton pickups hood. No really I should as a hood ornament.

Course I wouldn't actually use it to move a trailer.

Chad

Haha, that would be great!

[pepi]

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Maybe this isn't a total fail, but a buddy picked this up at auction for $100 and wanted me to fix it. It's getting scrapped. From the best we can tell it got rear ended. Still rolls though. Probably salvage the axle.

Lights still good LOL

[pepi]

This is still my fav

Just goes to show ya, one really cannot make a VW look any worse that the manufacture .

[Michgriz]

I almost thought I recognized that truck.

Anywhere near the Lansing area?

Could be, I work on the NE side of Grand Rapids. It was heading North toward Rockford.

[mad welder 4]

One coming out of the scrap yard.

[Canadian Welding]

One coming out of the scrap yard.

It shoulda stayed in there.