the maoster:
… Honestly CF you make me think that if you moved into a fully furnished house you’d sneer at the washing machine and continue to take your clothes to the stream and beat them with rocks!As Luke said - a contrarian.
These have to be the quotes of the year, and oh so true!! ^^ 
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
2. Trailers agent ‘falling off all over the place’, it’s still a very rare occurance thankfullyAnd yet here we are with the same subject and argument appearing again and again.Drivers asking how best to avoid it and then moaning about the answer when told how to do it properly.Bizzarre and even funny if it wasn’t so bleedin dangerous.
Its not a massively common subject and people only moan because you can never accept that there are other ways of doing things. Everyone gets tired of your know all attitude, your ‘only my way is right’ nonsense. Theres more than one way to skin a cat
Carryfast:
.However going under low then lifting the trailer introduces room for error in the form of what if you’ve left it too late when you stop and the pin is then a result fouling the jaws when you lift.
The vast majority of trailers (with notable exceptions such as tipper trailers and the like) are deep pinned (google it) so it’s simply a case of watching your mudguards disappear under the leading edge of the trailer and then lifting the unit. You’re already in contact with the rubbing plate and you haven’t scraped the grease off of the 5th wheel onto your catwalk etc, you still have a foot or two to travel backwards before encountering the pin.
If you’re stupid enough to screw that simple operation up then a missed pin will be the least of your worries 'cos a low bridge or building will get in your way long before that happens.
This’ll be my last comment on this thread CF. Not because you’ve “won” the argument, but simply because your blinkered approach coupled to your total belief that any way but yours is wrong quite frankly makes my teeth itch!
the maoster:
This’ll be my last comment on this thread CF. Not because you’ve “won” the argument, but simply because your blinkered approach coupled to your total belief that any way but yours is wrong quite frankly makes my teeth itch!
Hear hear!
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
2. Trailers agent ‘falling off all over the place’, it’s still a very rare occurance thankfullyAnd yet here we are with the same subject and argument appearing again and again.Drivers asking how best to avoid it and then moaning about the answer when told how to do it properly.Bizzarre and even funny if it wasn’t so bleedin dangerous.
Its not a massively common subject and people only moan because you can never accept that there are other ways of doing things. Everyone gets tired of your know all attitude, your ‘only my way is right’ nonsense. Theres more than one way to skin a cat
NOOO… don’t get him going on that as well…
Just telling a mate about Fowlers losing a trailer, he had not heard about it and aprt from the pics on here I cannot find any info on it all, almost like its a news black out?
Any other links appreciated
I’ve skinned that cat both ways but the last thing i always do is shine a torch into the fifth wheel’s innards to see that the bar is behind the pin. If the trailer fell off then the first question from the safety guy would be ‘did you visually check it’. 