Re: Chaining and hauling

Posted by Tiny Homan on July 29, 2002 at 18:35:38 from (64.53.44.204):

In Reply to: Chaining and hauling posted by Tiny Homan on July 28, 2002 at 16:23:52:

Also a follow up:,,, Tires are paramount for safety also. For various reasons, tires play a very important role in the safety of your haul. OVER-INFLATED tires are safer than UNDERINFLATED tires. A tire inflated to 10 or 15 lbs.,(psi) over the recommended inflation pressure, will run cooler, and handle better. (never go much over that pressure) Underinflated tires,(especially steel belted radials) will run a lot hotter, and will be more likely to blow out the sidewall due to heat and the flexing of the sidewall. Do an experiment; take a piece of wire and bend it double where it makes a "hair-pin" turn. Flex it about 5 times really rapidly and then feel the apex of the point where it was flexing. (now think about that wire in the sidewall,,, see my point?) A lot of amateurs will assume a 20 foor trailer will haul anything you can drive up on it, without regard to tire ply, and weight class rating. WRONG!!! To make a sarchastic point, 40 cubic feet of lead, is a little heavier than 40 cubic feet of feathers. A "car hauler" may be designed to haul automobiles, but if someone scrimped on the cost of tires, when the originals wore out, or whomever built it, placed the wrong ones (regular passenger car type)on it, the tires may blow when you place the old Oldsmobile on it and hit the road! I'm not a tire expert, I have bought a boxcar full of tractor trailer tires in my years, but for the light truck, and car hauler trailers, ask a tire expert, NOT.. (I repeat) NOT.... Just A SALESMAN, but someone who really knows weight class ranges etc. AND THEN FOR GOD'S SAKE... BUY YOURSELF A "GOOD" TIRE GAUGE, and USE IT! A half hour of good pretrip inspection and preperation will make the trip a lot more fun and comfortable. If you have a 4,000 lb. tractor on a 20 foot trailer pulling it with a one ton pick-up truck, and you have a blow out on that trailer while going down Monteagle, or Black Mountain, it's going to ruin your whole week... that is IF you don't die during the process. One other thing I have witnessed many times.

Just because the old Ford pick-up truck will pull your "m" farmall on a 20 foot trailer,,,, doesn't mean it will "STOP" that load in an emergency. Over the years I have seen a lot of tragic accidents because someone was pulling a load faster than they could "STOP" that load! Wet roads "GREATLY" amplify the "STOPPING" danger. So brakes are something else you really want to keep a check on. Thanks for all the emails and compliments on the other post. :)

Dan.

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