I've got an experience that happened to me a little over a month ago that I'm going to share. Was at a multi tractor auction that drug out all day long and was talking to two people at the auction that I'd never met before, just happened to be talking to them the whole time. They lived about four hours away from the auction site, so I knew they were after a specific tractor although they never told me which one and during the auction, I didn't ask. (Bidder paranoia, you know) I live a good hour away from this auction. I came to this auction without a trailer thinking that I'd come the next day to pick up any purchases. It just turned out that I purchased a tractor that weighed 4,400 lbs. My tractor was one of the later items to sell, so I hung around to find out what tractor these two guys were going to bid on. They were bidding on one of the final tractors that sold, a tractor that weighed almost 15,000 lbs. For reasons I won't mention here, they didn't purchase the 15,000 tractor, but it wasn't because they didn't have the money for it. Anyway, the auction was over and I got a wild hair in my brain. Since their route home was close to where I lived, I asked them if they would give my purchase a ride to my place. They were glad to and I was happy because I wouldn't have to waste the next day retrieving my tractor. So I asked them where their trailer was and they pointed in the general area. I drove my tractor to the general area and they showed me a car trailer that had loose boards and cheap five-lug wheels. Now I had no real worries with a 4,400 tractor getting a ride, but I had no idea how they were going to go four hours with a 15,000 lb. tractor on this trailer. I'm pretty sure the trailer would have broke an axle with this tractor being driven on it, much less the four hour ride, being pulled by a small 3/4 ton pickup. I'm pretty sure the tractor that they wanted would have been far too wise to even drive onto this trailer. My tractor got home safe and that's all that mattered to me that day. But had they tried to load the 15,000 tractor on this trailer, I think I would have liked to sit back and watch.
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