dieseldog999:
why am i thinking this??
youtube.com/watch?v=6SeZe1CKRv8
Brilliant mate. 
trevHCS:
I’m guessing we’re currently looking at:
- Driving an unroadworthy vehicle*
- Failure to display towing vehicles’ numberplate
- Failure to display visible working lights
- Possibly illegally tinted windows
- Displaying a stupid graphic in back window
Success as mentioned in being a ■■■■ and likely driving without the correct licence entitlements.
Also whats the max towing weight of a Focus? Are you allowed a significant overhang on a car trailer?
- I believe a trailer in this case would be classified as part of a vehicle from something either Tachgraph or ROG said elsewhere.
All in all thats a £50 fine and 3 points. Plus a £200 charge for staying more than 2 hours in the services.
My c max has a 1200 kg braked and 670 kg unbraked
So he’s at least 2T over weight
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I passed him just north of Newton Abbott Sunday afternoon, he was in a layby and I thought it looked like he had a puncture then. To get it from there to Cullompton was utter lunacy. I’m glad I passed him when he was parked up and not on the descent of Telegraph Hill
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Good effort though.
What’s the chances of it losing both wheels off the middle axle without so much as a bent stud?
Plus look how rusty those drums are compared to the remains of the left rear one.
I reckon it only had 4 wheels when this genius set off.
Crossroads:
What’s the chances of it losing both wheels off the middle axle without so much as a bent stud?
Plus look how rusty those drums are compared to the remains of the left rear one.
I reckon it only had 4 wheels when this genius set off.
I reckon you might just be right. After all a tri axle trailer doesn’t really need 6 wheels really does it. One wheel missing off each middle axle. Flat tyre on one side at least by looks of picture possibly 2 so caused a blowout and the prize wombke continued to drive it and wreck the hub.
“Axle Overweight”. 
Cosmic:
Picture was taken at Cullompton Services.More from another group…
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whats the cable neatly wrapped round the axle - over-run brake cable? wonder if it was even connected before the wheel fell off.
I once seen a car with an empty boat trailer tied to the rear with rope, but I think this one takes the biscuit.
I reckon the cable is actually the beading cords off the now non-existant tyre.
I once seen a car with an empty boat trailer tied to the rear with rope, but I think this one takes the biscuit.
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i has the misfortune to have a frogeye sprite whare the spring hanger rusted through the floor meaning it couldnt be driven.
i had a lotus cortina with a towbar and lifted the sprite up and hung the bumper on the towhook to drag it backwards.
my mate drove my cortina and i sat in the sprite facing backwards turning the wheel at the same time as we went round corners so as not to wreck the back corners of both cars.
it was about 15 miles of bum twitching,but i got it back to the lockup with only a couple of scratches and a dint on the bumper.
definate plus point for solid steel bumpers.
not exactly health and insanity but job done all the same.
How about this… 
Abload movement. …multiple offences including no brakes on the trailer and both tractors seized for being on red diesel. …road safety this is not…
Luckily nobody got hurt…
I do hope they put the tractors in the crusher.
cav551:
I do hope they put the tractors in the crusher.
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+1
nice to see those poor farmers getting it for a change.
dieseldog999:
I once seen a car with an empty boat trailer tied to the rear with rope, but I think this one takes the biscuit.
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i has the misfortune to have a frogeye sprite whare the spring hanger rusted through the floor meaning it couldnt be driven.
i had a lotus cortina with a towbar and lifted the sprite up and hung the bumper on the towhook to drag it backwards.
my mate drove my cortina and i sat in the sprite facing backwards turning the wheel at the same time as we went round corners so as not to wreck the back corners of both cars.
it was about 15 miles of bum twitching,but i got it back to the lockup with only a couple of scratches and a dint on the bumper.
definate plus point for solid steel bumpers.
not exactly health and insanity but job done all the same.
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Ah, yes, back in the day…if one of us had entire brake failure that car was the tow car and your mate behind did the braking - it did work surprisingly well. Simples.
Socketset:
dieseldog999:
I once seen a car with an empty boat trailer tied to the rear with rope, but I think this one takes the biscuit.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i has the misfortune to have a frogeye sprite whare the spring hanger rusted through the floor meaning it couldnt be driven.
i had a lotus cortina with a towbar and lifted the sprite up and hung the bumper on the towhook to drag it backwards.
my mate drove my cortina and i sat in the sprite facing backwards turning the wheel at the same time as we went round corners so as not to wreck the back corners of both cars.
it was about 15 miles of bum twitching,but i got it back to the lockup with only a couple of scratches and a dint on the bumper.
definate plus point for solid steel bumpers.
not exactly health and insanity but job done all the same.
Ah, yes, back in the day…if one of us had entire brake failure that car was the tow car and your mate behind did the braking - it did work surprisingly well. Simples.
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well things seemed to work out ok in the long run when there was no wombles,h&s mongs and the occasional plod that was a bit hands on and living in the same world as the rest of us.
my mate that was towing me got his own back on the trip as i had bought it as a barn find months earlier and i towed him steering it on a rope behind my ford transconti from brampton all the way up the A74 back to glasgow on a ( thankfully) quiet sunday which was interesting for him as no matter if he had his foot on the brakes with the tyres smoking and swaying one side to the other,then i couldnt feel the thing anyway and we had to lengthen the rope so i could at least see him waving at me.
i think that was the fastet the thing ever went in its life as it 998 cc engine wouldnt have pulled a sailor off of your sister. karma for me i suppose… 
When I was a teenager I had a job selling ice cream in Pembrokeshire. The company had a concession on Amroth Beach and in the Spring we had to take a very heavy old shop/trailer with no brakes at all down the 16% hill onto the beach road. He had an elderly tractor and we towed the trailer to the top of the hill from Pendine.
At the top, we turned the whole thing round, hitched it to the front of the tractor and set off down the hill. My job was to chuck buckets of water onto the brake drums in an effort to keep them from melting. It was all pretty scary.
Can’t see a pic, just where it says ‘image.’