Re: Towing thoughts

[Matt and Stacy Sopher <sopher@domain.elided>]

I have a friend who had a tow package welded on his Geo Metro. He tows stuff
like fishing boat, duck hunting stuff, camping gear for deer hunting, etc. and
he is usually really loaded down! His only problem was when he went offroad
with it, he usually got stuck!  He finally realized that a Geo Metro was not a
good tow vehicle, so he bought a 1999 Ford Ranger 4X4, yeah, not a Scout. I
gave him h*ll for it too!
Just goes to show,
Matt Sopher
Sorry I haven't written in a while, I'm getting inspected at work next week,
and I'm getting the place ready for it!

Tom Harais wrote:

> Brian:
> .
> > It may sound too careful to some but how many of you have done similar
> things,
> > I can't count how many times I've seen stupid mistakes like this on big
> rigs
> > with pro drivers.  The extra minute re-checking will be the difference of
> life
> > and death if you don't do it.
>
> Brian:
>
> My buddy used to use his Datsun P/U to move his two horse trailer around on
> dirt roads near his home in Texas. One time, when he wanted to move his
> wife's two horses from the barn to a far away pasture after work before
> dark, he hurriedly hitched up the trailer, loaded the horses and took off
> down the dirt road. He hadn't gone 300 yards when he saw the trailer come
> around the P/U on the driver's side, pass him and proceed down the road
> until it hit a fence and came to a halt.
>
> His wife was screaming at him from the passenger side of the P/U the whole
> time. Her screaming was just her way of covering the horrible fear she was
> feeling as to what fate waited for her horses that were gliding down the
> road in an un-hitched horse trailer, somewhat like Charleton Heston on his
> chariot in "Ben Hur". He had assumed she had locked the ball hitch on, she
> figured he had done it.
>
> Did I mention in a previous post that horses are a "living" load and need
> to be treated very carefully?
>
> None-the-less to this day, when my buddy hooks up a trailer, his wife
> double checks the whole thing and cusses him the whole time for being in
> too much of a hurry. But, my buddy never complains because he feels very
> lucky that the horses weren't badly hurt that day he got in too much of a
> hurry and ended up "loosing" the trailer. Having his wife double check his
> work insures there won't be any repeats.
>
> Tom H.