Ever put those safety chains to use?
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well i think there is a lot of feelings and thoughts runnin around on this thread, BUT, i agree with BBD and HID. sit back and think about a GN and a 5er, Where is a lot of the wieght, on the ball. SO if that ball or hitch decides to break, where does the weight that the ball or hitch was holding go? TO THE GROUND, diggin a trench as it goes, which would be better than ANY tires trying to stop the same amount of weight. But if it had chains, that kept it in the bed,it is going to start freakin out, and cause the truck to roll or hit someone else or both. where as if the trailer would of just hit the pavement, and started stopping RIGHT NOW, the only way someone would hit it, is if they were following to close or werent paying attention to their driving, and shouldnt be on the road anyways.
So if it were me doin what BBD and HID do, i wouldnt hook up the chains either, cause it would be safer without the chains. look at the facts!! we have a GN stock trailer, that has NEVER had the chains hooked up, have bounced up and down the rough dirt mountain roads, and NEVER came off or had close calls to comin off, just look at the setup and see where the weight is on a GN, on the other hand, we have a bumper pull stock trailer, that has come off the ball, it had chains, but they decided not to hold onto what they were sposed to, but the trailer went off into the pucker weeds and stopped, hitch dug into the dirt and stopped it, so i guess everyone has their own opinion to this, but just sit back and look at the facts, and see that BBD, HID, and others that agree with them, arent in the wrong as you guys make them out to be. Flame me if you want but, whatever.
So if it were me doin what BBD and HID do, i wouldnt hook up the chains either, cause it would be safer without the chains. look at the facts!! we have a GN stock trailer, that has NEVER had the chains hooked up, have bounced up and down the rough dirt mountain roads, and NEVER came off or had close calls to comin off, just look at the setup and see where the weight is on a GN, on the other hand, we have a bumper pull stock trailer, that has come off the ball, it had chains, but they decided not to hold onto what they were sposed to, but the trailer went off into the pucker weeds and stopped, hitch dug into the dirt and stopped it, so i guess everyone has their own opinion to this, but just sit back and look at the facts, and see that BBD, HID, and others that agree with them, arent in the wrong as you guys make them out to be. Flame me if you want but, whatever.
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I think the point that BBD is trying to make here is that GN trailers are extremely unlikely to detatch. I too have seen wrecked trucks with GN's still attached. A few years back, a fellow pulling an empty 20 foot stock trailer fell asleep and drove off the road, causing him to do 3/4 roll. The trailer never came off. No one yet has chimed in with an incident that involved a GN detaching on a highway anywhere. We can all assume the consiquences if one did detatch, I doubt that anyone has actually seen it happen on the road.
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Top - you dont have to explain to me how an air brake system works - I was a driver trainer for Groendyke Transport and taught at Del Mar College Transportaion Services and I own my own bussiness so, I really dont think theres a whole lot in the trucking bussiness you could teach me.
I have a solar charger on my break away battery - it is always charges and I check it at least 2-3 times week. It will lock the trailer down brakes down enough that you cant budge the trailer. Maybe you need different batteries.
On one last note. If this was such a critical and important issue - why is there no a law stating explicitly that these chain are required in a GN set up.
Yea its a no brainer all-right.
Like I said in the past my chains are hooked up - - to a plate under my ball. If the ball goes the plate goes and the whole goose neck goes -- just like I like it!
Its a no brainer to a truck driver.
You can talk down to me - insult me - hey its your web site. But you'll never change my mind.
Maybe you should contact Annette Sandberg and talk it over with her.
Im finished with this issue.
Later yall
I have a solar charger on my break away battery - it is always charges and I check it at least 2-3 times week. It will lock the trailer down brakes down enough that you cant budge the trailer. Maybe you need different batteries.
On one last note. If this was such a critical and important issue - why is there no a law stating explicitly that these chain are required in a GN set up.
Yea its a no brainer all-right.
Like I said in the past my chains are hooked up - - to a plate under my ball. If the ball goes the plate goes and the whole goose neck goes -- just like I like it!
Its a no brainer to a truck driver.
You can talk down to me - insult me - hey its your web site. But you'll never change my mind.
Maybe you should contact Annette Sandberg and talk it over with her.
Im finished with this issue.
Later yall
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Top - you dont have to explain to me how an air brake system works - I was a driver trainer for Groendyke Transport and taught at Del Mar College Transportaion Services and I own my own bussiness so, I really dont think theres a whole lot in the trucking bussiness you could teach me.
Top - you dont have to explain to me how an air brake system works - I was a driver trainer for Groendyke Transport and taught at Del Mar College Transportaion Services and I own my own bussiness so, I really dont think theres a whole lot in the trucking bussiness you could teach me.
I have a solar charger on my break away battery - it is always charges and I check it at least 2-3 times week. It will lock the trailer down brakes down enough that you cant budge the trailer. Maybe you need different batteries
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On one last note. If this was such a critical and important issue - why is there no a law stating explicitly that these chain are required in a GN set up.
On one last note. If this was such a critical and important issue - why is there no a law stating explicitly that these chain are required in a GN set up.
Yea its a no brainer all-right.
Like I said in the past my chains are hooked up - - to a plate under my ball. If the ball goes the plate goes and the whole goose neck goes -- just like I like it!
Its a no brainer to a truck driver.
You can talk down to me - insult me - hey its your web site. But you'll never change my mind.
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Originally posted by rjordan
well i think there is a lot of feelings and thoughts runnin around on this thread, BUT, i agree with BBD and HID. sit back and think about a GN and a 5er, Where is a lot of the weight, on the ball. SO if that ball or hitch decides to break, where does the weight that the ball or hitch was holding go? TO THE GROUND, diggin a trench as it goes...
well i think there is a lot of feelings and thoughts runnin around on this thread, BUT, i agree with BBD and HID. sit back and think about a GN and a 5er, Where is a lot of the weight, on the ball. SO if that ball or hitch decides to break, where does the weight that the ball or hitch was holding go? TO THE GROUND, diggin a trench as it goes...
I think we all agree, it's the responsibility of the driver to check and recheck their trailer connections at each stop along the way.
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I don't know about TT's but with goosenecks, you should NEVER have the weight biased behind the axles. That's alot more dangerous than not hooking up the chains.
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Originally posted by erics76
I don't know about TT's but with goosenecks, you should NEVER have the weight biased behind the axles. That's alot more dangerous than not hooking up the chains.
I don't know about TT's but with goosenecks, you should NEVER have the weight biased behind the axles. That's alot more dangerous than not hooking up the chains.
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It'd be hard to do with the newer trailers, but I've seen a few old ones that the axles were just a few feet past the middle of the trailer. I hope it was a home-made job. Also, it's possible if you haul something longer than the trailer. I helped a guy load 80 joints of used 2 3/8 x 31ft. oil field pipe in a 20+5 GN. I told him it probably wasn't safe, but he was only going 5 miles on a county road, so he hauled it. Ended up bending the latch plate on the hitch because it was rear-baised. Didn't ever come off the ball though.
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