Disabled Travel Trailer on a Flatbed?
Anyone have experience putting a TT on a Flatbed? We have a 23ft tandem axle TT with a bearing failure on the rear driver side. The trailer is a 2004 Forest River, standard issue. The distance from ba...
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We're celebrating. The trailer is in the shop! I tried to strap it this morning. There was no clearance above the fore/aft member. That was unfortunate since that was the only vertical point of attachment. Then I tried tying to a cross member but the strap was at a 45 degree angle. I made a judgment call and decided it would put too much side stress on the member. I abandoned that idea but it may have worked. After lunch we decided to just run with it. I lubed it up and we took off at 30 mph for the 10 miles riding on the axle nut. My DW followed to let me know on the cell if the wheel fell off or started on fire but it didn't. We made check stops. The hub was hot but the wheel was not so we went on.
Here is a shot of the bad wheel and another of the strapping that I decided not to use.
Bad bearing. We're waiting to hear the damage report from the shop:
Strapping not used:
Here is a shot of the bad wheel and another of the strapping that I decided not to use.
Bad bearing. We're waiting to hear the damage report from the shop:
Strapping not used:
