dangerous trailer loading

[facility1]

personally, I may have casually mentioned something, some lumber yards feature delivery at a fair price as they have the equipment to deliver the product,, and let them take the liability of the job. just think of the trailer tires if one blows out.........

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I had similar issues when I picked up the concrete for my fence and the lumber.

When I got the concrete, I used my Jeep toter trailer - it has 2 3500# axles under it. Built pretty beefy and more than your usual car trailer. The "fenders" are part of the frame and made of 1/4'' plate steel with numerous gussets. They're not bending. I've had entire vehicles suspended on them and they don't have any deflection.

The guy at home Depot refused to load over them. Even though he could have got the forks over them and unloaded. He put the pallet of concrete as far forward as possible. My poor F-350 was sitting on the bump stops. I think that is the first time it ever hit the overload leaves. Awkward drive home. I'd stop and a few times lock up the front tires. I was certain the hitch was going to rip off the truck or the 6000# rated coupler would rip off of the trailer.

Then when I got the wood, my plan was to put the bunkers of pickets on the truck and the posts in the small trailer. It had 700 pound 4.80-8 tires and was originally a small popup camper. It's not heavy duty at all. They decided to put a few thousand pounds of wood on the trailer. I made them take it off and load it the way I wanted. Unfortunately, it bent the axle and the trailer burns the left tire off now.