Snapped Truck

OK. it's a rigid chassis, if it were out on the road it would have had a tray fitted thus not allowing it to bend as much shown here, BUT would have a different story had it had a load on it,

When I first looked at the photo and sized up the supposedly driver I thought...yeh he was up on the chassis ...lol

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I once had a box trailer do that.

Dad had bought it second hand in the late 60's. Somewhere along the way I inherited it.

I was renovating a bathroom at the time and went to the building supplies joint to get some compressed fibro or AC sheet for the floor. 2700x1200x19 heavy stuff. The guy at the building yard loaded the 4 sheets with a forklift and I set off home.

As I backed it in the driveway I noticed the back of the trailer kick up as I climbed the little rise to the footpath, nothing unusual there but when it did not fall back as the car climbed up the drive I thought something was wrong. The draw bar had bent seems the oxidation problem was worse than I had thought. I was lucky it did not happen on the road.

Lucky I got a good deal on the flooring. The money I saved went towards the new trailer. Which is now about 20 years old. Better go and check the draw bar.

Duncs

who welded the tank braces to the chassis?

Reminds me of the Broport bloke that had a loaded 20fter dropped onto his trailer from bout 20ft up on the gantry down at CTAL one day... Rooted the trailer and chassis on the mover.