#3 I watched my cousin pour a quart of gasoline on a fire ant bed. After it had soaked in he lit a match and blew at least a yard of dirt out of the ground.
#10 Question for the truckers. Maybe this is a dumb question but why isn't there a release for the trailer when it rolls so it doesn't pull the tractor over with it?
You have a kingpin that has a fluted base to lock in onto the 5thwheel. So when the tractor and the trailer rolls over a bump in the road the trailer doesn't disconnect and leave the trailer to fall on it's landing gear.
Simplified... the 'pin' on the trailer is shaped somewhat like an inverted 'T' and fits into a 'slot' on the fifth wheel hitch. It can only enter/exit the fifth wheel 'slot' from the rear, and once located in position, is retained via a 'cross-pin' of sorts across the opening on the 'slot'.
D S, Nobody wants trailers rolling around without control. What we're seeing here is most likely EMPTY trailers, moving through a restricted area. Restricted to light, high profile vehicles due to the high winds. And it might be Wyoming, but there's other areas where this happens, but I-80 in Wyoming is the one that made my ass grab the seat, many times.
I've seen it several times along I-135 near McPherson KS. Happens along I-90 near Wall SD. Back in the 1800's teamsters would have problems with a team getting tired and just laying down. Guess it's still a thing.
#3) Makes me giggle way to much. Real life Looney Tunes caught on camera. My grandad did the same thing with a tree root under his asphalt driveway. He thought he could pour gasoline down the hole, slowly burn the root out with fire, and then heat and flatten the asphalt. Instead, he created a cannon that fired pine tree root chunks hundreds of feet across the front yard. Ka-BOOM! My uncle was there and said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
Took the family back to SD. , 112F, hot!, stopped at a tourist attraction, cold front rolled through, thunderstorm... Back on I-90 east, campers, trailers, semi's, (anything taller than 7') on their sides, emergency vehicles racing past, then the prairie fires from the lightning. Chaos. "Welcome to South Dakota kids!"
#6 -- No matter how old you get, as a man you have to laugh every time you see a guy getting racked in the "family jewels". I would have thought that, by the time I got to 65, it wouldn't be funny anymore. But I was wrong -- it's ALWAYS funny!!!!!
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#10 Nice parking job.
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# 10, i 80 in Wyoming on a calm day. they say that one day the wind stopped blowing there in the 1940's and everyone fell down.
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ReplyDelete#3 I watched my cousin pour a quart of gasoline on a fire ant bed. After it had soaked in he lit a match and blew at least a yard of dirt out of the ground.
ReplyDelete#10 Question for the truckers. Maybe this is a dumb question but why isn't there a release for the trailer when it rolls so it doesn't pull the tractor over with it?
ReplyDeleteYou have a kingpin that has a fluted base to lock in onto the 5thwheel. So when the tractor and the trailer rolls over a bump in the road the trailer doesn't disconnect and leave the trailer to fall on it's landing gear.
DeleteSimplified... the 'pin' on the trailer is shaped somewhat like an inverted 'T' and fits into a 'slot' on the fifth wheel hitch. It can only enter/exit the fifth wheel 'slot' from the rear, and once located in position, is retained via a 'cross-pin' of sorts across the opening on the 'slot'.
DeleteD S, Nobody wants trailers rolling around without control. What we're seeing here is most likely EMPTY trailers, moving through a restricted area. Restricted to light, high profile vehicles due to the high winds. And it might be Wyoming, but there's other areas where this happens, but I-80 in Wyoming is the one that made my ass grab the seat, many times.
ReplyDeleteI've seen it several times along I-135 near McPherson KS. Happens along I-90 near Wall SD.
DeleteBack in the 1800's teamsters would have problems with a team getting tired and just laying down. Guess it's still a thing.
Also lots of fun for RV trailers and motor homes.
Delete#3) Makes me giggle way to much. Real life Looney Tunes caught on camera. My grandad did the same thing with a tree root under his asphalt driveway. He thought he could pour gasoline down the hole, slowly burn the root out with fire, and then heat and flatten the asphalt. Instead, he created a cannon that fired pine tree root chunks hundreds of feet across the front yard. Ka-BOOM! My uncle was there and said it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
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#4 - as if she hasn't been there before
ReplyDeleteTook the family back to SD. , 112F, hot!, stopped at a tourist attraction, cold front rolled through, thunderstorm... Back on I-90 east, campers, trailers, semi's, (anything taller than 7') on their sides, emergency vehicles racing past, then the prairie fires from the lightning. Chaos.
ReplyDelete"Welcome to South Dakota kids!"
#6 -- No matter how old you get, as a man you have to laugh every time you see a guy getting racked in the "family jewels". I would have thought that, by the time I got to 65, it wouldn't be funny anymore. But I was wrong -- it's ALWAYS funny!!!!!
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