Wipe your shorts instant!

[ferniesnow]

At the staging area yesterday and we heard a crashing noise. Looked around..........



No injuries and no damage to the sleds, deck, nor the dude who saw this deck coming towards him as he unloaded. Turn buckles apparently came lose.

 

[007sevens]

here we go, let the sperts start explaining how they would have used grade 8 bolts and for extra measure welded the deck to the box as well as hammered the threads of the bolts so nothing would come loose.


Im glad nobody was hurt, but hoy **** his eyes must have gotten big.

 

[snopro]

here we go, let the sperts start explaining how they would have used grade 8 bolts and for extra measure welded the deck to the box as well as hammered the threads of the bolts so nothing would come loose.


Im glad nobody was hurt, but hoy **** his eyes must have gotten big.

They say Polaris will climb or side hill
anything? How did it do?

 

[Clode]

i had turnbuckles at one time but found they need attention through the season, now I bolt the deck in. That must have been exciting

 

[gunner3006]

One of those tilt hydraulic decks hahaha

 

[tex78]

One of those tilt hydraulic decks hahaha

Lmfao, but there like this when down, and no poop involved

 

[bobsledder]

i had turnbuckles at one time but found they need attention through the season, now I bolt the deck in. That must have been exciting

Check your bolts Seen those come loose too. Logging roads are rough.

 

[gunner3006]

Lmfao, but there like this when down, and no poop involved

He’s still in the R&D stage

 

[Clode]

Check your bolts Seen those come loose too. Logging roads are rough.

I hear ya, I use new nyloks every year

 

[tex78]

He’s still in the R&D stage

Well the fulcrum point is all wrong

Must be a new world engineering student

 

[tex78]

Check your bolts Seen those come loose too. Logging roads are rough.

I use mechanics wire to tie the turn buckles from backing off

I find the nuts can sieze and be a byotch to break free, where just cut the wire and done

 

[brian h]

at least nobody was hurt along with no damage to sled,truck or deck. this has been discussed before how to install deck,myself i have put jam nuts on my turn buckles,along with bolts thru deck and box with a plate under box,with jam nuts on turn buckles re-tighten after a few trips and then good for season.

 

[adamg]

Two sleds on a halfton. How come no one has called this yet? I'm disappointed in your, Snowmud.

 

[bobsledder]

Bolts thru box with backing plates and over time the come apart engine vibrated them loose and got a little surprise climbing a rough login roads. Never hurts to check am when servicing the truck

 

[Caper11]

Two sleds on a halfton. How come no one has called this yet? I'm disappointed in your, Snowmud.

Thats not a half ton.

 

[bobsledder]

Two sleds on a halfton. How come no one has called this yet? I'm disappointed in your, Snowmud.

Get some glasses

 

[hbar218]

Two sleds on a halfton. How come no one has called this yet? I'm disappointed in your, Snowmud.

If you look closely you see he only has one sled and he is well within the "towing/dragging" capacity of a 1/2 ton even though it looks like an 8 bolt full floating rear axle. LOL

 

[Dazzler]

If you look closely you see he only has one sled and he is well within the "towing/dragging" capacity of a 1/2 ton even though it looks like an 8 bolt full floating rear axle. LOL

If you look even closer yet, you will see it is a 3/4 ton or better and there was also two sleds on that deck, as well as there are tracks leading or leaving the ramp on the ground.
It obviously left dodge when backing the first sled off..

 

[arff]

I noticed the mirrors

 

[ferniesnow]

Yes, there were two sleds. They both had the SuperClamps undone ready to unload. The first sled down set off the circus. He was the dude that must have had the funny feeling as he was backing down the ramp. The second sled (Polaris) was just standing on the tail and 4 guys lowered it to the ground.
FYI, it was not a half ton. If it had of been this would have been 16 pages by now!!!