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<blockquote data-quote="ajwgator" data-source="post: 1951" data-attributes="member: 226"><p>Manuals...got mine (Service & Parts) from maxxwedge on ebay too. Well pleased with them! I'm not experienced yet either but one hard lesson I learned I have to share. Hauling your Bobcat, always load it backwards on the trailer so you have more tounge weight on your vehicle. When I bought mine, picked it up and it was loaded forward. On the way home one of the front tires on the trailer went. Trailer started swerving and I couldn't hold it. It took me for one hell of a ride. If it weren't for a guard rail I would have lost my Bobcat off the trailer, flipped my truck, an maybe even got killed. I was lucky and no traffic coming the other way. I screwed up both ends of my bumper, twisted my a-frame on the trailer, and the guard rail finished the job by trashing my truck bed. Nevertheless, still lucky NO ONE KILLED, Bobcat still on the trailer, and $500 bucks to fix trailer a-frame & rehang the axles. I feel certain that if I had know about the warning in the manual about loading the unit backwards all of that might now have happened. I was only traveling 45 MPH and man that was the most "helpless" feeling I have ever experienced! Good luck and welcome to the forum. Jay W.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ajwgator, post: 1951, member: 226"] Manuals...got mine (Service & Parts) from maxxwedge on ebay too. Well pleased with them! I'm not experienced yet either but one hard lesson I learned I have to share. Hauling your Bobcat, always load it backwards on the trailer so you have more tounge weight on your vehicle. When I bought mine, picked it up and it was loaded forward. On the way home one of the front tires on the trailer went. Trailer started swerving and I couldn't hold it. It took me for one hell of a ride. If it weren't for a guard rail I would have lost my Bobcat off the trailer, flipped my truck, an maybe even got killed. I was lucky and no traffic coming the other way. I screwed up both ends of my bumper, twisted my a-frame on the trailer, and the guard rail finished the job by trashing my truck bed. Nevertheless, still lucky NO ONE KILLED, Bobcat still on the trailer, and $500 bucks to fix trailer a-frame & rehang the axles. I feel certain that if I had know about the warning in the manual about loading the unit backwards all of that might now have happened. I was only traveling 45 MPH and man that was the most "helpless" feeling I have ever experienced! Good luck and welcome to the forum. Jay W. [/QUOTE]
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