Let me know the results,lol.I'd be curious to see what would have happened if you didn't have that inch and a half of fork beyond the ball. I suspect it might have popped then.
Luckily, I have an early warning system 10ft out my drive in the shape of a speedbump. When I hear a big CLONK driving over that, that's the reminder that I haven't put the jockeywheel upthey will take some stick I was driving down road with my trailer and heard a great crunch looked in the mirror and both trailer wheels were up in the air about a foot . id drove over a speed hump and the jockey wheel dug in and flipped the trailer up
After all these years I'm still amazed that an artic truck is connected to well over 30 tons of load and trailer by a 2" diameter pin.
And similarly that a 30 ton shipping container is held to to a trailer by 4 skinny little twistlocks.
Luckily, I have an early warning system 10ft out my drive in the shape of a speedbump. When I hear a big CLONK driving over that, that's the reminder that I haven't put the jockeywheel up
After all these years I'm still amazed that an artic truck is connected to well over 30 tons of load and trailer by a 2" diameter pin.
And similarly that a 30 ton shipping container is held to to a trailer by 4 skinny little twistlocks.
I thought it was a 4 tonne trailer held quite well to a 30 tonne container . . .
I suppose that 99% of the time it's just a case of 30 tons pressing down on a trailer, those pins ain't really doing much I'd guess.
I'd like to know how much testing of such like did they do in other extreme positions etc.
When articulated rigs do end up on their sides, anyone know of the cab becoming detached from the trailer?
I would have thought that pin would just snap but I've never seen that on the recovery TV programmes for example.
And when the airlines fail and the brakes lock on the trailer it stays connected, a fully loaded trailer suddenly applying full brakes with a 10ton tractor unit and often upwards of 400bhp pulling in the opposite direction must be some force.