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<blockquote data-quote="RJSStamps" data-source="post: 54097" data-attributes="member: 7242"><p>ok this isn't eactly the right lace but good as any I guess. After being around the site a bit one thing sticks out like a sore thumb to me That is TRAILERS! It amazes me but I see a lot of these heavy and expensive pieces of equipment being hauled around on tiny under sized trailers! It amazes me the police haven't stopped these people using a 3,000 lb trailer to haul 5,000 + lb machines! At one time in my life I was a police dispatcher and an officer called in one day to ask what the fine was for a load he had stopped. A guy had a dozer on a car trailer! He was, no joke, 10,000 lbs overweight! The fine, $70,000! In court they cut it down to $10,000, but that was because the judge was in a good mood that day. The point is, hauling a heavy expensive machine on an underweight trailer is just plain DANGEROUS! You can't put a 5,000+ lb machine on a trailer rated for 3,000 safely. My own trailer is rated at 8,000 lbs and the machine 5,400....without the bucket, add a few more hundred pounds for the bucket. Oh, and it isn't just on this site but I saw a guy hauling a rental skidsteer past my house yesterday, and the trailer was a rotten wood floor lightweight 3,000 lb car trailer with a 6,000+ lb Bobcat on it. Doesn't the rental company realize that they too could be liable allowing that machine off their lot on that trailer? Think people! One guy here just lost his life yesterday after an accident Thursday where they were cutting a tree down on a hill next to a large retention pond. The tractor rolled backwards down the hill and into the pond pinning the guy under it....... Someone wasn't THINKING! Safety first!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RJSStamps, post: 54097, member: 7242"] ok this isn't eactly the right lace but good as any I guess. After being around the site a bit one thing sticks out like a sore thumb to me That is TRAILERS! It amazes me but I see a lot of these heavy and expensive pieces of equipment being hauled around on tiny under sized trailers! It amazes me the police haven't stopped these people using a 3,000 lb trailer to haul 5,000 + lb machines! At one time in my life I was a police dispatcher and an officer called in one day to ask what the fine was for a load he had stopped. A guy had a dozer on a car trailer! He was, no joke, 10,000 lbs overweight! The fine, $70,000! In court they cut it down to $10,000, but that was because the judge was in a good mood that day. The point is, hauling a heavy expensive machine on an underweight trailer is just plain DANGEROUS! You can't put a 5,000+ lb machine on a trailer rated for 3,000 safely. My own trailer is rated at 8,000 lbs and the machine 5,400....without the bucket, add a few more hundred pounds for the bucket. Oh, and it isn't just on this site but I saw a guy hauling a rental skidsteer past my house yesterday, and the trailer was a rotten wood floor lightweight 3,000 lb car trailer with a 6,000+ lb Bobcat on it. Doesn't the rental company realize that they too could be liable allowing that machine off their lot on that trailer? Think people! One guy here just lost his life yesterday after an accident Thursday where they were cutting a tree down on a hill next to a large retention pond. The tractor rolled backwards down the hill and into the pond pinning the guy under it....... Someone wasn't THINKING! Safety first! [/QUOTE]
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