just a bit of advice needed

[(RIP) PLANK]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

Just my humble opinion but NO WAY would I ever tow a car loaded like that scooby, i.e. arse about face with the engine effectively hanging off the back of the trailer.

There isn't a better way to destabilise the trailer and induce snaking (unless vatco knows one?) - I did it once and wrote my mates car off as a result, while towing on a similar trailer at no more than 45mph...in that case it was a Beetle that we stupidly drove on the trailer FORWARDS..

I agree mate, i tried it once and it was a very unpleasant towing experience, I supose unlesss the car has a rear or mid engine?

a trailer should be nose heavy, and making maximum use of the permited nose weght makes it more stable!

[vatco]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

Just my humble opinion but NO WAY would I ever tow a car loaded like that scooby, i.e. arse about face with the engine effectively hanging off the back of the trailer.

There isn't a better way to destabilise the trailer and induce snaking (unless vatco knows one?) - I did it once and wrote my mates car off as a result, while towing on a similar trailer at no more than 45mph...in that case it was a Beetle that we stupidly drove on the trailer FORWARDS..

I would tend to agree

In an ideal world the weight should be on the axles or slightly forward of them. But it is not an ideal world. Sometimes this is just not possible . Also I do not know the weight distro of a Scooby. And I did, once, have to reload a car on a trailer because it was better balanced the Wrong ways round.

Maybe we should, as a club, have a 'tractor' style pull one day Just for a bit of fun and see what will pull what weight on what terrain

I'd enter the black top section (and I won't cheat........... Honest )

[bloat]

yep i agree completely but we unfortunaly had no choice he ha lost the keys for the scoob thats why we had to trailer it to subaru, and it was parked forward on his drive with the steering lock on plus we only had to go across town so didnt venture ove about 25mph, we tried to get the front wheels/engine as far over the trailer axle as we could. then the rover went off to the scrappy.

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

Originally Posted by vatco

I would tend to agree

In an ideal world the weight should be on the axles or slightly forward of them. But it is not an ideal world. Sometimes this is just not possible . Also I do not know the weight distro of a Scooby. And I did, once, have to reload a car on a trailer because it was better balanced the Wrong ways round.

Maybe we should, as a club, have a 'tractor' style pull one day Just for a bit of fun and see what will pull what weight on what terrain

I'd enter the black top section (and I won't cheat........... Honest )

certanly up for this, having seen a d21 2wd pull a 4.5 tonne bus i reckon the troll would
be up for quite a bit more. maybe recreating those police rangeys dragging 32 ton wagons
or that vw tourag that moved a jumbo jet. mind the vdub was ballastted to about 7 ton
itself, one of those v10 td models.

[jims-terrano]

Just out of interest, on Christmas Eve I tugged a truck that was stuck at an acute angle on a hill and he kept sliding on snow (sliding whilst parked as he'd given up trying to drive at that point). We both attached my tow strop to our vehicles and low box 1st gear no problem just set off on the snow and towed him up hill to the main road.
The truck was a flatbed, bigger than a transit but not as big as a 7 1/2 ton ford cargo type. Sort of thing a coal man might use. Hope you can imagine the type of motor. I've been guessing it was a 4 1/2 ton vehicle, what does anyone think am I right.

What ever weight motor it was the bloke was mighty impressed

Jim T

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

hmmm jim well not many 4.5s baring sprinter 416/7 types, so might have been bigger
in 5 or 6 tonne range. iveco do one popular as a spec lift recovery for vans upto 3.5t,
any road was it laden? glad you had fun and what did you charge?? or was it a gift?

[tezzer]

i done a job for a farmer a few years ago, he had a artic deliver bags of food, anyway the bloody clutch went on the tractor unit, so i get a phone call to recover this unit, manage to get it half mile down the road so it was'nt blocking the road to the farm, it suprising that once it moved (5-10 mph) it was'nt any trouble really. but i got paid well lol.

[jims-terrano]

Forgot to say Thomas The Terrano, it was a Merc.

Jim T