Here is one for the weight police! I was going through some of my old photos the other day and found this. Taken in the early 80s it shows my rig....a F250 + 11 1/2 foot camper + 3500 lb boat on a 48" extension.
I knew nothing about GVWR or axle weights or tire loading. Cannot believe I did that! Took my family several times across the Rockies from Alberta to BC. Mind you, I was not the only one doing this sort of thing in those days.
One time my father-in-law borrowed the camper and loaded it on his 1/2 ton dodge and drove out to Vancouver for the worlds fair in 1986. It must have been a little hard to handle!!!
I knew nothing about GVWR or axle weights or tire loading. Cannot believe I did that! Took my family several times across the Rockies from Alberta to BC. Mind you, I was not the only one doing this sort of thing in those days.
One time my father-in-law borrowed the camper and loaded it on his 1/2 ton dodge and drove out to Vancouver for the worlds fair in 1986. It must have been a little hard to handle!!!
This was my "What was I thinkin!" rig.
An '82 F250 6.9L Diesel, 4 speed manual tranny. That's my first TC it's hauling, a 10ft Jayco............
And I was towing a 16ft flatbed trailer off a 36" hitch extension with (what else?) another T-bird on it. Number four if I'm not mistaken.
I had two flats on the trailer on that trip (I'm changing one of them in these pic's) and one on the truck. I think it was this trip that it finally dawned on me that the chrome spoke wheels the previous owner had put on the truck weren't rated high enough for what I was doing. The flat on the truck was caused by a cracked wheel.
That's my son standing next to the truck with the dog.
As Homer Simpson would sing:
"I am so smart!"
"S-M-R-T!"
:):)
An '82 F250 6.9L Diesel, 4 speed manual tranny. That's my first TC it's hauling, a 10ft Jayco............
And I was towing a 16ft flatbed trailer off a 36" hitch extension with (what else?) another T-bird on it. Number four if I'm not mistaken.
I had two flats on the trailer on that trip (I'm changing one of them in these pic's) and one on the truck. I think it was this trip that it finally dawned on me that the chrome spoke wheels the previous owner had put on the truck weren't rated high enough for what I was doing. The flat on the truck was caused by a cracked wheel.
That's my son standing next to the truck with the dog.
As Homer Simpson would sing:
"I am so smart!"
"S-M-R-T!"
:):)
