The wheel is overtaking me .

[Fusion]

Had a small accident today :( . was driving home with a load of scrap metal in my 6x4 trailer . When out of nowhere the left hand tyre on the trailer over takes me and slams into a fence post and sending the disco and trailer into a fish tail up the road . I got it under control and pulled over ( luckily no one else was on the same bit of road ) . I went around to look at the hub and all the studs had pulled through the hub and let the wheel go . No damage to anything and to anyone so thats a good thing . I'm laughing about it now but it made my butt grab hold of the seat when it first happened :eek: .

[V8Landy]

Had a small accident today :( . was driving home with a load of scrap metal in my 6x4 trailer . When out of nowhere the left hand tyre on the trailer over takes me and slams into a fence post and sending the disco and trailer into a fish tail up the road . I got it under control and pulled over ( luckily no one else was on the same bit of road ) . I went around to look at the hub and all the studs had pulled through the hub and let the wheel go . No damage to anything and to anyone so thats a good thing . I'm laughing about it now but it made my butt grad hold of the seat when it first happened :eek: .

Not a nice feeling is it:(

[Narangga]

Good to hear it wasn't more serious :o

[87County]

It's good when one of these incidents ends with no injury and little damage....

Many many years ago I had overloaded our trailer with a pallet of bricks because the brickies were running short and I didn't want them to run out of bricks and leave the job....

and

....yes, I was overtaken by the wheel on the way back to the job, and the dragging trailer brought us to a fairly quick and thankfully uneventful stop...

...but before I could repair it beside the road the bricks had to all be unloaded didn't they?....and then, of course, they had to be reloaded...hmmm

the lesson was fully learned and trailer defiantly continues to retain her slight distinctive structural twist to remind me of that day...

just wanted you to know you weren't the only person it ever happened to:)

[3 Lions]

Good to hear you were okay, apart from the change of underwear needed!:twisted:

[Bush65]

Reminds me of a Kenny Rogers song - you picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel :eek:

[Fusion]

Reminds me of a Kenny Rogers song - you picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel :eek:

:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling: Funny you say that as we were singing that when waiting for my mate to turn up with his trailer to pick up mine .

[JDNSW]

............

the lesson was fully learned and trailer defiantly continues to retain her slight distinctive structural twist to remind me of that day...
........

Sounds like my next door neighbour - he worked out a method of unloading round hay bales from his Landcruiser; drop the side and do a brisk left turn. After a couple of years of drought with feeding his cattle several times a week, it acquired a very visible twist.

John

[87County]

Sounds like my next door neighbour - he worked out a method of unloading round hay bales from his Landcruiser; drop the side and do a brisk left turn. After a couple of years of drought with feeding his cattle several times a week, it acquired a very visible twist.

John


:)... I've seen a lot of trayback yotas like that...

..............now I know the reason....

[45tr0]

a couple of years ago I had just travelled from Bundy to Gympie to use a mate's welder to build a cage on my trailer. On the trip home my trailer came unhitched (old screw type, came loose) failed and the entire trailer sailed past me in the right lane (luckily no other traffic about!)

the drawbar dug into the dirt shoulder, and the whole trailer vaulted into a full somersault with a twist, landing right between two bloody great boulders in the scrub, back on it's wheels with the drawbar pointed back toward the road. One broken tail light, and no other damage :)

There was no way I could drive down to retrieve it with the falcon (too rough), and so I stomped along the shoulder trying to work out a way to recover it. It was about then that I tripped over a bit of wire cable sticking out of the grass - Telstra had been through and fixed the old power lines, and had just chucked the leftovers (a whole length of about 12m) into the gully! The only bit of work telstra have ever skimped on that I've been thankful for!

Pulled the trailer out and picked up a new tail light at supercheap, when i got home the missus was none the wiser - that is until all my welds let go on the cage about six months later- better to blame the accident than my welding...

[sschmez]

Hate that ...

Glad it wasn't any worse for you (or others)

Stevo

[bblaze]

Lost the rear wheel on my beloved EH when I was 17. First car and all that stuff. My mate was driving (he was only 16 and on L plates), I was in the back in a compromised postion with a sweet young lassie and to this day we still make comment of me sticking my head up and telling him to pull the bloody car over and off the road. End result, I didnt finish what I had started, 3 guide posts, a dented front bumper and a mud guard pushed onto the wheel. Sweet memories
cheers
blaze
ps
never found the wheel

[cooter]

me and my old boss where in his chev ute towing his car float with a freshly painted peterbuilt 62" bunk to work when we saw some bodies wheel rolling across the highway after we laughed at some poor bastrds misfourtune we realised it was our wheel whoops
smacked 3 parked cars a new commodore an old excell and a capri
luckily not much damage exept to the bosses ego

[scarry]

mate of mine was doing up the left wheel nuts on the trailer sailer trailer,the phone rings,returned, and drops it off jack,heads off to noosa,and what happens......wheel departs trailer,forgot to tighten the nuts .

eventually has to get a tilt tray to get it back home for repairs:mad:

on another note,i found out recently if your trailer is not insured separetely from the towing vehicle,if it departs the vehicle,it is not insured,therefore any damaged caused by the runaway trailer is not covered by insurance.the towing vehicles insurance may cover the trailer,only while it is attatched to the vehicle.this is for QLD,whether it is same in other states ,i dont know