The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bodger on December 11, 2013, 10:54:13 am
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I've just had a rather frightening experience.
Today, I borrowed an old home made flat bed trailer to collect some 12ft lengths of timber from the local forestry. Its something that I've done many times before without a problem but today was nearly very different.
I was returning home fully laden, travelling down a slight incline when the trailer and my van started to snake wildly all over the road. God knows what the cars behind me thought, I know what I thought! Thank God there wasn't any oncoming traffic. I didn't dare brake, all I could do was to slow down very slowly and thankfully I was able to regain control. :o :o :o
I know that you're advised to accelerate out of this sort of the thing but I didn't have the bottle to do so. Needless to say I completed the rest of my journey home at a snails pace and I wont be repeating my journey. Its not an experience that I want to repeat and I feel extremely lucky to have got through it unscathed. :relief:
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glad you managed to get it back under control , I had a similar experience with a trailer load of pigs a lot of years ago. It didn't end very well and the trailer couped. the pigs were ok apart from being a bit shaken. I was terrified.
Horrible experience!
glad your outcome was a bit less traumatic although the experience sounds as bad.
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I've often thought what Wallies drivers are when they manage to turn a caravan over but now I have a much better idea as to how easily its done. If I'm honest, for a few seconds I was a little like a rabbit dazzled by a headlight. I froze.
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Easily done, well done for keeping your cool and no one else got into trouble, done it with a caravan and sometimes we need that wake up call, same with driving on icy roads! :thumbsup:
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i had a pony trailer that used to snake badly, was a bit hairy.
:relief:
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Had a similar experience towing a trailer with a Land Rover on it a few years back. No fun at all. Worse still had an old site cabin I'd bought actually come off the tow hitch, causing us to partly jacknife and end up on the wrong side of the road. Luckily I had a strong piece of chain attached so it didn't come away completely and nobody was hurt.
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Nothing like putting an oversize trailer with weight on the back on the quad, coming round a bend downhill with the rear wheels off the floor doing an endo sideways - you have to fight every sense in your body not to brake and to nail it - and not to put a leg out to stop the impossible from toppling.
Like the driving test though - in a trailer test they dont teach you how to handle it when stuff goes wrong.
An experience you wouldnt wish on anyone though.
5p - 50p - 5p - 50p - 5p - 50p sphincter time :) lol
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I've done it with a caravan too. I was going down a dual carriage way and had to take up both lanes until I had it under control again. The driver behind me kept sounding his horn as if I was doing it on purpose just to stop him overtaking. I never forgot I was towing and tried to exceed the speed limit again.
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So love the post title. I thought ??? when I saw it then started reading and it perfectly describes the scenario. :roflanim: