Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing

[charlie hill]

TRUCKS John,  over here in the east we call them tobacco trucks.  LOL.

However the new ones that are made for automatic primers and bulk barns are 
called trailers.   In days long gone by I've pulled as many as 4 tobacco 
"trucks" behind a tractor.  As you said, they are usually so crudely built 
that even at 12 mph they start to fishtail.
We never pulled them far, maybe a couple of miles to another farm or barn. 
We pulled them behind pickups that way too but very slowly.

Charlie




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From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing


> Never seen anyone here in NC towing boats behind campers or such but we 
> have been towing 2-3 farm items hooked together for years, thats not to 
> say it is legal. We have towed 2 wagons (unloaded) behind the baler a few 
> times. It used to be a common site to see 2 or more tobacco trailers 
> (slides, drags, whatever your area called them) hooked together going down 
> the road. Most of the time these trailers were so poorly built we never 
> ran over 25mph. Likewise they normally were on a back road too and only 
> for a short distance. I had a cousin with a custom hitch on his pickup so 
> he could pull these traielrs side by side. It was a little wide but they 
> didn't fishtail as bad. Then he decided to hook 4 beind his truck---2 on 
> each side. He'd have never done it if he weren't on some back country dirt 
> roads. The sheriff might would have had something to say about it!!
>
> John Hall
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