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  1. 2nd September 2008, 05:53 PM #1
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    The wheel is overtaking me .

    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 .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fusion View Post
    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 .
    Not a nice feeling is it
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    wheel, what wheel?

    Good to hear it wasn't more serious
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    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....

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    ....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
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    Good to hear you were okay, apart from the change of underwear needed!
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    Reminds me of a Kenny Rogers song - you picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bush65 View Post
    Reminds me of a Kenny Rogers song - you picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel
    Funny you say that as we were singing that when waiting for my mate to turn up with his trailer to pick up mine .
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    Quote Originally Posted by 87County View Post
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    the lesson was fully learned and trailer defiantly continues to retain her slight distinctive structural twist to remind me of that day...
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    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

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    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...
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