Tailgate extenders

[rodp]

True, very true, then it becomes worth every penny regardless of fuel costs.

[Dozerlarry]

Just thinking Larry, it would cost me about 12 gallons of fuel, which would be about £80 ($133) just to do my laundry

Well, it's not that high here......yet! When you've worked for months on end for up to 12 hours a day you'll do about anything to get home for even a few hours.

[rodp]

Just thinking Larry, it would cost me about 12 gallons of fuel, which would be about £80 ($133) just to do my laundry

[rodp]

I believe you're fine there Andy, most of the 500 lbs is supported by truck bed and gate, and as long as it's strapped right you should be good. You're looking only about 2 feet past the gate, I might put some lights on the rack due to width of machine, might just to make them happy.

At least your not hauling a 40ft ladder on a mini with 1 bungee holding it on, similar to the videos we see on tv from over the pond.

They wouldn't get away with that now Jim if they got spotted, things have changed dramatically over the last few years.

When I was a young man I worked for a haulier and we once moved a 70' narrow boat on a 40' trailer, he would lose his licence nowadays pretty damn quick. VOSA would come down on him like a ton of bricks.

Mind you, you always get the numpty that just has no idea of mechanical limitations and, as you say, thinks it's fine to hold a ladder on a roof rack with one bungy

I've had a day off and actually driven 4 hours back home to do my laundry..............and drove back to the motel to go back to work the next day.

I would just have bought new clothes, no way would I drive 4 hours to do laundry

[Dozerlarry]

"The distances you blokes travel during everyday life still amazes me, I don't drive 8 hrs even to go on holiday. It's about 4 hours to Cornwall from here, and that's plenty far enough. "
I've had a day off and actually driven 4 hours back home to do my laundry..............and drove back to the motel to go back to work the next day.

[Andyman]

Thanks Jim, I do have each back axle strapped to inside of bed and front axles strapped down to rack. You can see it well in pic but when backed in the front wheels hardly even contact rack until you strap down so very little weight is on rack except when loading.

Now I get back on trailer project so I can haul my buddies Amphicat and mine to the dunes or mountains together, he will be done fixing it soon.

[ARGOJIM]

I believe you're fine there Andy, most of the 500 lbs is supported by truck bed and gate, and as long as it's strapped right you should be good. You're looking only about 2 feet past the gate, I might put some lights on the rack due to width of machine, might just to make them happy.

At least your not hauling a 40ft ladder on a mini with 1 bungee holding it on, similar to the videos we see on tv from over the pond.

[Andyman]

My parents are from Bournemouth Rod. We would go visit every summer there, I use to get to know everyone on the plane by the time we got there being little and bored on a plane

[rodp]

As long as I have a red flag/rag placed on the very back and they can see the license plate, I got approval.

I live only a few miles from a large OHV park Oceano Dunes, and you should some of the interesting ways people haul there toys. This is tame compared to most.

Either way I wanted to try it mainly because it is therapy for my brain, it wont stop thinking up things like this.

If you can get away with it then do it , so long as it's secured then no problem. Over here they would probably pull you on outside C+U or unsafe load (who defines safe I don't know) There is no stated means for securing loads over here, it just has to be safe in the eyes of the law. So long as it doesn't move then one strap over the top would comply.

yep, a scheme like this pops up over here every now and then. Some of the whackos think we can all use public transportation and everything will be just fine. This is a big place. I'm working 8 hours away from my house, and I'm still in Florida. 8 hours would probably get you across many European countries.

The distances you blokes travel during everyday life still amazes me, I don't drive 8 hrs even to go on holiday. It's about 4 hours to Cornwall from here, and that's plenty far enough.

[Dozerlarry]

Yeh larry, we've all got our weird laws. They're now trying to resussect the idea of congestion charging in Birmingham (second largest city in the country) with the intention of making it vehicle free. They want everyone to use cycles or walk, and all goods for shops, factories etc to come into a central hub and be distributed by electric vehicle.

Just how do you get a 25ton coil of steel on an electric buggy, or pallets of fruit and veg. B/ham is full of nightclubs and bars etc that all consume vast quantities of beer and spirits ............delivered by electric buggy ?? I ask you, where do these nutters get educated ?

Plus the simple basic fact, who the hell is going to cycle in the rain and snow ?
They will end up making it like London, where contractors refuse to go so the Londoners end up paying a fortune for local rip off contractors.

Won't affect me though, I'll just not go there same as I don't go to London

yep, a scheme like this pops up over here every now and then. Some of the whackos think we can all use public transportation and everything will be just fine. This is a big place. I'm working 8 hours away from my house, and I'm still in Florida. 8 hours would probably get you across many European countries.


" Unsecured load is how the cops would ticket u here." Right-on Tomo, all our heavy equipment has to have a minimum of 4 separate attach points to the lowboy. A scraper usually gets 6 chains. I always put 4 straps on my AATV. In all fairness to the DOT I have seen things hauled that scared me.

[Andyman]

As long as I have a red flag/rag placed on the very back and they can see the license plate, I got approval.

I live only a few miles from a large OHV park Oceano Dunes, and you should some of the interesting ways people haul there toys. This is tame compared to most.

Either way I wanted to try it mainly because it is therapy for my brain, it wont stop thinking up things like this.

[Tomo]

Hi
Unsecured load is how the cops would ticket u here.
Revenue raising at its best
Yet if I carried timber with the tailgate down it would be ok !!!!!!!!!!!!!
tomo

[rodp]

Yeh larry, we've all got our weird laws. They're now trying to resussect the idea of congestion charging in Birmingham (second largest city in the country) with the intention of making it vehicle free. They want everyone to use cycles or walk, and all goods for shops, factories etc to come into a central hub and be distributed by electric vehicle.

Just how do you get a 25ton coil of steel on an electric buggy, or pallets of fruit and veg. B/ham is full of nightclubs and bars etc that all consume vast quantities of beer and spirits ............delivered by electric buggy ?? I ask you, where do these nutters get educated ?

Plus the simple basic fact, who the hell is going to cycle in the rain and snow ?
They will end up making it like London, where contractors refuse to go so the Londoners end up paying a fortune for local rip off contractors.

Won't affect me though, I'll just not go there same as I don't go to London

[Dozerlarry]

You wouldn't get 100 yards over here before they pulled you for that The cops would have your vehicle impounded and it would be some ridiculous fee to get it back ( recovery for two vehicles as they would unload it, storage, administration fee, release fee). I would bet you would be looking at about £500 / £600 minimum, could be as high as £1200 / £1500.

Rod, looks as if the bureaucrats over there have lost sight of the Magna Carta, huh? Don't get all depressed though, we have our fair share of goofy laws too.

[rodp]

You wouldn't get 100 yards over here before they pulled you for that The cops would have your vehicle impounded and it would be some ridiculous fee to get it back ( recovery for two vehicles as they would unload it, storage, administration fee, release fee). I would bet you would be looking at about £500 / £600 minimum, could be as high as £1200 / £1500.