I got a great score of oak today! Dropped the trunk, bucked it up and loaded up my trailer. It filled my 8 foot bed and my 16 foot trailer, and I happily headed down the road- until that “thwap thwap thwap” sound rang out in the air- blew a trailer tire. I’m glad my trailer is dual axle, I think it should actually be mandatory for hauling big wood. The rim was destroyed immediately thanks to the load, but I got it switched out with the spare and going to get back on the road. I’m glad the jack that comes with a Super Duty is heavy enough to lift the trailer with wood in it, don’t know if I would have the heart to unload the wood, change the tire and then have to load it again!
You got that right! Instead of 73 degrees and daytime, it would usually be 10 degrees with snow on the ground, nighttime and the jack wouldn’t work...
There’s a pothole down the road from my house that I’d guess eats trailer axle bearings from the sounds of things up at my house. Stepson hit it and destroyed the rim and tire on his car a while back
couldve been a lot worse VOLKEVIN ! glad all went well and you are safe. Cant imagine what id do with a heaping load in my F150 and blew a tire. Got stuck in a muddy yard last week with a half PU load and had to unload to get out! great looking load BTW!
You need a redneck jack. If you have dual axel trailer carry a 4 x 4 with the ends tapered and about a foot or 18 inches long. Put it in front or behind as the case may be of the good tire and pull or back trailer on to 4x4. Change bad tire no jack needed.
I never had luck with that method. Seems like there was too much travel in the equalizer between the axles on both my 20' flatbed and 10' dump . I carry a cheap Harbor Freight 10ton bottle jack now. I've used it on a couple silage wagons but haven't needed it hauling wood....yet.
My luck hauling 8' log scrap logs (large hollow knots in them and hollow ends.) from my dads place 2hours and 40 minutes from home. Ya I remembered a spare tire full of air. Also remembered the heavy duty bottle jack. I have a flat on the trailer just before the Mackie rest stop Clare Michigan. Loosen the lug nuts jack the trailer up remove the nuts and the rim will not come off the hub. I only had a 2 pound hammer to pound on it with me. Lucky I crippled it in to the rest area to work on it so was easy to call my dad and tell him to bring a sledge and the torches even. Finally after much hammering and heatting the rim up it came off. The next week I removed every rim off the trailer and put anti seize on every one of them. then I got a chance to get a tri axel equipment trailer with Dayton wheels and hubs. Lot of people don't like them but the rims have never required a large ezpendgure of labor to remove then. That is the luck I have. Al
I always carry a 20 ton jack & spare. Al hit it right with the anti seize, at least in salt country. I've had to knock stuck wheels off fairly new cars in the shop for that reason. Loosen the lug nuts about 1/2 way & make a couple tight turns & the rims usually break free.
Some years back we had a plant supervisor come into the shop with a flat tire on his 8 YO F150...took the lug nuts off and the steel rim was stuck on...with his permission we beat the crap outta that wheel with a large sledge hammer, no dice. Put the lug nuts back on and took the truck for a loop around the shop...no luck (tire would hold air for a few minutes) So back out with it again, ended up doing power slides on a blacktop parking lot...no luck. We aired it up and he took off for home. He said his mechanic spent 2 hours on it and ended up cutting it off with a torch!
……..or...…. rotating your tires on a regular schedule helps out dramatically! The corolla I owned for over 10 years was a great little car but it too would seize the wheels to the car all the time. I would buy tires from a local shop that offered free lifetime rotation if you bought 4 at a time. Great! I was in the shop around 3 times a year after learning that.
