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<blockquote data-quote="Bodaciouscj7" data-source="post: 1310365" data-attributes="member: 16358"><p>Heres my bad one.</p><p></p><p>The first one, back in 97, 18 years old and never towed any thing before. Borrow a trailer from my uncle too go pick up a 72 Lincoln Continental in Sequim. The trailer has surge brakes and was built specifically to haul CJ5 so it is short. Triler is unstable and shoves my truck all over the road if I get above 50 so I take it slow. Coming down 101 towards Hoodsport and the wind blast off a semi heading the other direction sets the sway in motion. I go back and forth from looking at the ditch on the right and Hood Canal on the left with the brakes doing nothing for me. Made the decision to stand on the throttle put it in the ditch instead of the canal or oncoming traffic. truck goes in and i stay on it to use the momentum to get it to come out of the ditch and the truck pulls right out bt end up dragging the trailer through the ditch till it hit a culvert popping it out of the ditch and blowing a tire. After getting it all stopped and sitting in a turn out some one pulls up and tells me that when it hit the culvert that the back of the trailer was about 6 ft in the air.</p><p></p><p> Some how through all this the Lincoln stayed tight to the trailer and other than the blown tire and scraped off paint the trailer had do damage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bodaciouscj7, post: 1310365, member: 16358"] Heres my bad one. The first one, back in 97, 18 years old and never towed any thing before. Borrow a trailer from my uncle too go pick up a 72 Lincoln Continental in Sequim. The trailer has surge brakes and was built specifically to haul CJ5 so it is short. Triler is unstable and shoves my truck all over the road if I get above 50 so I take it slow. Coming down 101 towards Hoodsport and the wind blast off a semi heading the other direction sets the sway in motion. I go back and forth from looking at the ditch on the right and Hood Canal on the left with the brakes doing nothing for me. Made the decision to stand on the throttle put it in the ditch instead of the canal or oncoming traffic. truck goes in and i stay on it to use the momentum to get it to come out of the ditch and the truck pulls right out bt end up dragging the trailer through the ditch till it hit a culvert popping it out of the ditch and blowing a tire. After getting it all stopped and sitting in a turn out some one pulls up and tells me that when it hit the culvert that the back of the trailer was about 6 ft in the air. Some how through all this the Lincoln stayed tight to the trailer and other than the blown tire and scraped off paint the trailer had do damage. [/QUOTE]
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