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Posted by Chris-se-ILL on September 16, 2003 at 21:20:07 from (216.174.170.195):
In Reply to: Pulling Equipment on the Highway posted by Daryl on September 16, 2003 at 04:31:13:
Well, several years ago, I was at an auction about 100 miles from home... went with a friend that was looking for some equipment... he never bought a thing but I raised my hand and bid on a cultipacker without thinking how far it was back to the farm. When I went back to tow the sucker home (it was a 25' fold up IH315, with a Remlinger harrow on the back) I took a pickup truck load of tools (including a torch and gas welding rods) in my '74 Chevy C-20 (2 wheel drive, 350ci with a Quadrajet, an automatic transmission, and heavy lift leaf springs). I soon found out that I could not pull the sucker faster than 27 miles per hour or it started swinging wildly side-to-side. About 1/4 of the way home, one tire decided to come off the cultipacker (it had dual tires on each side)... of course it was the outside tire on the right side... the one that runs on the shoulder of the highway. I had to just torch the last lug bolt off because we were on a stretch of highway that was busy with no shoulder. And, I didn't have a spare tire for it. Ran it the rest of the way on one tire on that side (and lots of prayers)! In Mt Carmel, Illinois I was going through town and the streets are really narrow. I was over the center line and passing a row of parallel parked vehicles when this car decided to not wait for me to clear the line of parked cars... it met me as I was going passed a 1 ton dually with "west-coast" mirrors. After I passed the dually I had not heard any crashing/glass breakage as I took the mirrors off.... so I asked my passenger that was with me, "how close was I to the mirrors?" He says, "You don't want to know!" We finally got the thing home safely just before dark..... entire trip took about 16 hours!
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