Too_Many_Tools;1210418 Wrote:
On Feb 4, 11:55 am, "SteveB" wrote:-
"Rob Fraser" FraserRacing"AT"RobFraser.Net wrote


-
If your metalwork can't look heavy-duty- make sure your lawers
do.. Not
a good thing to whip together without proper engineering. Not bashing
you
at all. Honestly- Trailers are so dangerous it's scary seeing a
hooptie
looling one near me in the car in traffic. I get WAY in front of
him....
I'd rather take a speeding ticket than a body bag any day.-
-
Rob-

I agree, except when I see some nitwit on the highway, I usually try
to keep
them in front of me so I can keep an eye on them. Unless there's
enough
space that I can kick it up to 85 and get far enough ahead to be safe.
I
speed up to pass semis, after having three lose caps while right
behind
them, or beside them. Easy to do with the turbo Cummins.

Trailers take so much flexing. Over every bend and sway and pothole
and
driveway entrance. Even the good ones stress out and fail.

Anyone towing ANYTHING needs the trailer to be from two to three times
the
capacity of the weight being towed. Just my opinion after seeing a
lot of
them in the ditch and into abutments, guardrails, and other motorists.
I
have met morons at the gas station that say their F150 will tow a
10,000#
trailer just as well as my Dodge. And they got some three story seven
slide
out trailer hooked to it. IIRC, my Dodge is rated at 14,600, and
10,000 is
about all I'd want to hook it up to.

YMMV. And probably does.

Steve-

Excellent points Steve.

A suggestion for the group...when you see a dangerous towing situation
you first get out of the way and next you point it out to the police.
A situation like this is as dangerous to the driving public as a drunk
driver.

Many GOOD welders that I know will NOT touch a trailer simply for the
litigation risks it incurs...smart guys.

TMT

It is nice to have a source for good opinions. My question was a
serious question which did not suggest that a trailer should be built
in a manner which would result is an unsafe situation for anyone. The
trailers which haul heavy equipment use 6 or 8 inch C channel. Carry
21,000 plus pounds. If anyone who responded was serious the responce
should have been this is something I do not know anything about and you
would be in good company as The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (sets forth trailer requirments) and the National
Institue of Standards and Technology ( metals, and composites) each a
government agency does not address or enforce the construction of a
trailer frame. Every comment I have read has some merit with the
exception of those who go off subject. Report a violator... big
problem it will do no good if no law has been broken. nitwit on the
highway...
I like that one... 2 nitwits one doing 85 mph in turbo cummings and the
other having some resolveable trailer problem... proper engineering...
I went that route, however, the answer was not 4 6 or 8 inch C channel
it was what is placed upon the C channel and the type of steel which
took me to carbon content which led to manufacturers of steel which led
nowhere. wanna buy steel fine... want us to talk about hardness or
brittleness consult an engineer.
So we have flex... stress... the best engineers do not know how to
resolve it... remember the plane in Hawaii... skin peeled right off...
today F-16's grounded flex stress... Guys I entered this site very
serious and learned this is not a place to get useful advice.
as for FraserRacing... "I'd rather take a speeding ticket than a body
bag any day.l" You speed and put me in a body bag... or some other
"innocent" in a body bag. For all of the interest I
say......thank you




--
anderson2624