I dont know how you made it through B.C. with only one ticket.
The DOT is real hard on trailers that even look like they have a load.
Car trailers . light flatdecks , horse trailer they are always after.

 

Wow....that is amazing, i am also very suprised you made it through B.C. the dot are tough. some of those hill's must have been crazy. not to mention how rough the road from Hains Jct. to Beaver creek is, you must have been crawling.

 

just out of curiosity what kind of disasterous mechanical failure did you experience? We have to pull double and triple axle trailers made to haul three cable reels for work. These trailers are rated at 14k and 21k and can be very hazardous to pull due to the differencein the amount of cable we needed for the job. My locator for the boring rig i run was pulling one with a half ton chevy with no trailer brakes on it. We were going down an 8% grade or better at around 60 mph with no toung weight. needless to say the results were very scary. we managed to keep her rubber side down but we both had to change our shorts after we got all 10 tires rolling the same way again

 

Was the disastrous mechanical faliure that befell you the sudden and irreversible shattering of your towing related self confidence? Just kidding, however that kind of intensive worry about others is sure to raise ones bloodpressure.
Joe

 

I stopped at Destruction bay to get some fuel and food and that was by far the worst section. The frost heaves were horrible. I left whitehorse on thurs morning and drive 25 hours strait to get to Palmer. Took little more than a day. I was going to stop around Slana, but I know the road so well between glenallen and palmer that I pushed on just to get home.

 

just curious. Why would you move a building that far? With the $$$ spent, you could have built 12 buildings.

 

Not to many buiding manufacturers up here in alaska. 7500 dollars is what it would cost me to ship the building up here. I brought a two post lift, tire machine, tire balancer, and a four wheeler which saved 3400 dollars on top of that. Sold my trailer for 2000 over what I paid for it. Not sure what I spent on fuel, but it was well worth it. Plus we wouldnt have 9 pages so far to read.

 

By looking at your pics, I'm guessing you took building materials, not a completed, large square structure.

 

I can't believe this thread is still going on! Well, I guess I can, since quite a few people are as amazed as I am by this pull. I keep coming back to this thread to quote it or get the pics to show to friends. I'm here right now to forward the pics and a quote of the original post to a friend who just bought a 2500 Cummins, to show him just what his truck is capable of.

I'm shocked that this load didn't get nailed. I've seen some VERY heavy loads that didn't look heavy (not bulky) because they were chunks of solid steel, which makes the weight deceiving to the eye. But there is no doubt looking at the pics of this one, that it is LARGE & HEAVY!

To those safety ***** out there, I would rather be on the road with this guy than any of the 80 year old blue-hairs that have never driven anything larger than a Honda Civic, then buy a Class-A motorhome for their retirement and travel the country. Or someone just as inexperienced jumping into one of the larger U-haul trucks and heading across the country in a 25K lb. vehicle they have no business being in. Legal and safe are two different things. This load wasn't anywhere near legal, but it was much safer than most of what I see on the roads every day.

Jim

 

Exactly what I was trying to say (but didn't). And I have an exception, I have seen much younger retirees/snowbirds that are in the category that I don't want to be near to when they're operating. Ok, and some youngsters that don't have a lick of sense. And - and - oh well, nevermind. (I guess I just could have said, "Good point - well said!")

 

I picked up the whole building. Built for 110+ mph winds and a huge snow load for alaska. It included beams, perlins, sheeting, insulation, man doors, garage doors, all the hardware, and all the cables. Take a 40x60 concrete pad with nothing on it. I brought up the rest for the shop.

 

So you are saying that two wrongs make a right?

 

It sure made me think twice about what I was doing and condition and capabilities of the equipment I was using.

If you want to do idioitc stuff far away from me I could really worry less. Hit the jackpot while doing it, however, and you may experience some intense worries about the legal and civil ramifications of doing so. You could take some simple advice and really think about the realistically potential consequences of doing stuff like this, or keep thinking with your ***** instead of your brain while making snide remarks. Either way, it's no skin off of my nose. Have a nice day.

 

I was using a friends 1994 F-250 to pull a 2 axle trailer with a junk Jeep on it when the factory installed receiver hitch failed at 60mph. The trailer swayed out of control, ultimately jackknifing and pushing everything off the road at over 50mph. Although I hit no other vehicles during all of this, debris from the wreck was thrown into the path of a group of motorcyclists behind me, causing 5 of them to crash, 4 of whom suffered personal injuries. We were not sure that insurance was going to cover everything, but between 2 policies it finally did. Most people are surprised that I survived the wreck at all, let alone walked away requiring only 3 stitches. All in all, it was quite a sobering event and one that I would have never expected. Perhaps I am a bit **** about towing safety and being safer in general now, but most people don't really just easily and quickly something like this can occur, especially when taking chances. Maybe others would give such things a little more thought had they crawlded out of something like this:





Thankfully ridofpwrstroke made his trip without event. That's good. I'm just saying that I would hate to see this be used to justify similar behavior. Maybe it will be gotten away with 100, but it's the one time that it finally does get you matters. Why take such chances?

 

The gooseneck hitch was rated for 35,000. It was the heaviest duty hitch I could find. I still think I was over by a thousand or so. There is some safety factor built in. That sucks about your friends truck. I knew what I did to mine and what it was capability was. I set it up for this trip. I just wish I would have bought this dually a year earlier.