Talk about a bad day wheelin'...link

[ntsqd]

Could do a deal like those "goofy" shackles" where the regular shackle is attached to a link. The link sits flat on the bottom of the frame and is pinned there for normal towing.

When you need more GC you pull the pins and inflate some air springs attached to the shackle links. Would make it more tippy when up. MISF & I solved that problem on our Cheep Trailer Project with some old un-used hard/hard valved Monroe Circle Track shocks he had laying around. Can get them from Speedway.

Alternately you could make those links a rocker arm and use a linear actuator, hyd ram, or air ram to lift it.

Could even go so far as to make the tailend of the deck lay flat on the ground with the links totally relaxed. Raise up to ride height and pin it for travel, un-pin & lift it higher for recovery use.

 

[jekquistk5]

wow

 

[HarryH3]

All those folks that claim that a MECHANICAL e-brake just isn't something that you need should look through those pics and think again.

 

[thezentree]

Anyone ever modified a trailer so it was capable of being taken up the trail to the broken rig?

Air bags and sway bars.

 

[hawkeye649]

With ebrakes I think the carnage would have been slightly less... if at all.

The main cause of this is that he didn't keep his blinker fluid full.

Is it just me, or does it look like a couple of monkey's F'n a foot ball? If your not going to bring an axle to the trail, remove the axle set it up on some kind of planks/logs so you can skid the front and drag it out backwards....

It at least made me laugh. I like how they just kept ripping up his SSR on his fender rather than taking it off... Sorry it happened too him though.

 

[Tabb]

I knew there was a reason why I never liked that twin I beam suspension, I have never seen parts bent and broken like that.

 

[tRustyK5]

That truck was SFA, it just looked like TTB when he got done with it.

Rene

 

[DavidB]

I knew there was a reason why I never liked that twin I beam suspension, I have never seen parts bent and broken like that.

I-Beam or solid axle would be no different in that situation. Unless maybe if you had a rockwell.