Spam/Phish> Re: [AT] Towing

[Al Jones]

Granddaddy always referred to his as tobacco "carts."  One of my "one of
these days" projects is to reconstruct one.  I think we have enough bits
& pieces to get the dimensions right.  He used one old one for years as
it made the perfect utility trailer for the super A since the trailer
tread matched the width of the tractor tread.

IIRC they were just made out of pine lumber.  We also have an old hog
trailer he built, out of oak with a steel frame and a car axle under it.
It was pretty tough.  I hated that trailer; the back gate was two boards
which slipped up and down. It was usually my lot to control the gate.
If I missed and let a hog out, I usually got fussed at.... The trailer
is under a shelter that collapsed last year in Ophelia, haven't made
time to drag it out.

Al

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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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> 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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