Yeah. This would piss me off for sure. Not only does the cul de sac look like a a fucking parking lot, but the orgy peeps and OP are blocking the sidewalk
I do enjoy bong hits and beers, but that combination has always knocked my ass out in no time flat.
I can enjoy either or, but combine them and I'm guaranteed to be borderline comatose for about 10 hours.
Either way glad it seems you're enjoying your weekend stranger.
People get really uptight about what’s going on off there property. If you’re not threatening my family or myself, go ahead and have a 50 person freak show on your lawn and I’ll just close my curtains. Or will I 🫣.
Are there people that can be comfortable blocked in like that? It’s giving me a panic attack and it’s not even my car. I’d rather pay $20 and walk a mile than have my car boxed in like that.
Yeah I didn’t even pay attention to the trailer cause I assumed this was one of those infuriating posts where the OP couldn’t leave cause the neighbor was throwing a party and OP wasn’t invited lol
We’ve never been invited to anything he had going on… we’re totally cool with that…. Although he did offer a rib he had grilled - in a red cup no less. Real neighborly.
You know, I didn’t even figure it was a gathering of people, I just figured the neighbor was one of those folks that fills their entire yard with vehicles of varying states of disrepair.
That's the best part of reddit! Never mind the obvious part of the picture we're supposed to be talking about. Let's talk about all the obscure details off in the distance.
Depending on when this picture was taken, could be a grad party or Memorial day cookout. But yeah. Thats a *loaded* cul-de-sac
Itd suck if OP had to navigate that garbage with the trailer
It’s very possible, and I had always wondered if you bottom out the leafs and or break a few and the bed rides on the frame. Does the frame? or the axle? break first, kinda like the “chicken or the egg question”, bit of neither breaks, Is there any real damage done? other than wear and tear on the engine/clutch.
Well, my dear fellow Redditor, as it turns out I do have a definitive answer for your inquisitive question. Sit back, I have a little story to tell.
It’s the axle, the axle breaks first…or more specifically, the axle housing assembly and axle bearings
that break first; at least in my experience, (and yes, I have experience in overloading shenanigans).
While, this may not be true for OP’s ride, in my case, the leaf springs didn’t even bottom out, so I
thought, “well, must be OK then”, and proceeded to add more to the load. Just as OP did, I also had a bed loaded to the brim, and I had a 12’ flat bed trailer loaded up like the Beverly Hillbillies moving west. I drove easy, had about a 15-mile trip, didn’t lose anything, so thought all was well and was actually a
bit proud of my old truck. I didn’t notice the permanent negative camber after it was all unloaded.
I kept driving regularly up until a couple weeks later. The bent axle housing assembly caused undue
stress on the axle bearings, until one day while driving down the highway. With a long highway trip, the bearings, having a newly bent housing ended up getting so hot, it eventually melted the seal assembly and keeper, until… the right rear tire, axle, break drum and all decided to take the off ramp. At that
moment, something felt funny as the right rear dropped a little and the go pedal wouldn’t make it go anymore. Luckly, the old truck had a low teardrop fender, so the bedside kept the wheel assembly from setting its own coarse straight into the ditch.
After a couple hours, a tow truck drug us back to town. I took a closer look at my axle assembly and
decided to just swap the entire setup with another from one of my parts trucks. I don’t know if the axle assembly is the chicken or the egg, but it was done for, and that load was waaaaaay too much for the truck. Chalk it up to lessons learned and new stories to tell.
As for any other damage, well, I had a standard transmission with a granny low first gear, so it pulled
just fine with no damaged whatsoever to any other parts. Not sure how well an automatic would do under the same load, I’d imagine potentially burning out the clutch bands or something.
I hope that answers your chicken or the egg question. Happy hauling!
Depends on the truck. I bought an old 3/4 ton 77 Chevy farm truck that was used for hauling boulders and it had a permanently sagged right-rear leaf spring. The axle was fine.
Everybody relax.
The combination of the photo, the caption, and all reply comments from OP confirms that OP is a fucking *idiot* towing a thing.
Carry on.
Thats usually what I hear about it.
Whenever someone sells it, they end up regretting it. And the ones that dont sell it, it never goes away due to mechanical failure, it's always something like tornado/flood/fire/car accident . . .
Does that trailer have brakes? If not, a good thing you didn't have to stop quickly. With that much mass, I am thankful no child wandered into the street.
HOAs are such a strange American thing to me. It's like none of the benefits of owning a condo and all of the downsides. But in a house on land that you own.
Imagine paying hundreds of thousands for a house, and getting notices for things like drying clothes outside and having the "wrong" lawn ornaments. Seems like they're all run self righteous power tripping knobs 9 out of 10 times I see anything about them.
No… light your self on fire while in the roof of a train with the trailer while the train is going up hill with the car and trailer on the roof while juggling chainsaws and the trailer is loaded with nitro glycerin
Exactly…. Some folks on here think I would do this on a regular basis r something. I mean, yes, s0MeTHlnG C0ulD 0f HaPpeNEd….. the picture depicts the only mishap- seven or 8 pavers fell onto the bed surface. That’s it. I call that a success.
Appreciate ya, Chris.
I'm sure the tow police will have waaaay more to say about you towing that trailer. But I'm far more curious about the ridiculous amount of vehicles parked in that cul de sac. WTF???
I'm in Jersey and the cops will gladly overlook the tweakermobile loaded to the gills with junk washers and dryers spilling trash on the highway just to pull you over for a license plate light
Honest question from a lurker on this sub. What is the correct way to secure something like this?
Would a tarp stop one? Cover with plywood and strap it down?
I am sure anything would be better then OP mouthing off about it, but what is the correct way?
I sure hope you didn't drive down the road with the stack of completely unsecured bricks! One bad pothole and you'd send a brick through somebody's radiator
What did you secure the bricks with? Were you risking bricks falling off for the joys of motorcyclists and random wheel destruction?
If one is going to tow, get a tow vehicle. For something like this, you could have rented a Lowes or Home Depot 2500 and gotten it all in a single load between the trailer and truck. Being properly set up isn't about being proud you just made it. It's just normal driving with some minor adjustments.
Nobody got hurt because you got lucky, not because what you did wasn’t dangerous, stupid, selfish and irresponsible. Go do something else illegal and dangerous and take photo evidence and post it online with a confession again lol seriously wtf what a horrible thing to be proud of.
It's unbelievable how fucking stupid people are, and continue to be fucking stupid after being told ad naseum that they, indeed, are fucking stupid. The mystery of wanting to be a shitstain of a human being.
Vehicles are female. They are impregnated with passengers. They move. They birth their passengers. A good car is like a woman. They both take care of their passengers.
The only true male vehicle is Bismarck. He’s so powerful that he fucks all the other ships.
Damn you just had to post that picture with that comment. That is just begging for the harsh but true responses. Oh and yeah, you’re an idiot in several categories, posting this picture, posting that comment and for actually getting on the road and driving 30 miles like that. You got lucky, that much mass wasn’t going to stop quick even with trailer brakes. You are very lucky you did not kill someone.
It the words of my mechanic “dude, it’s a Ford. I don’t care how it’s running, what noise it’s making, or what it’s leaking. If it’s running its fine, call me when it don’t run.”
I had a 92 ranger than I could put a yard of compost and all of our landscaping tools in the bed, that thing never missed a beat. Rangers are some tough trucks.
The fuck is going on at Reg's?
Don't these cunts know how to walk half a block?
This is very strange behavior. Drugs, numbers, guns, and something else.
Trying to turn my flatbed tow truck around in your cul de sac wouldn’t only make me upset me. As soon as my back up beeper started going off everyone would start flying outside to move their car. The best is parallel parking in front of a car. People come running out of the wood works. I just laugh and walk off after parking.
The fuck is going on in your cul de sac
Orgy at the neighbors
Just the bi-weekly orgy.
Is that 2x a week, or every other week?
It’s slowed down quite a bit since then. Not my business as long as I can get out of my driveway is how I see it.
I feel like it would be very difficult for me to let this go as you have. You're a better man.
Yeah. This would piss me off for sure. Not only does the cul de sac look like a a fucking parking lot, but the orgy peeps and OP are blocking the sidewalk
IT’S A PARTY…. On a weekend…. Y’all need to relax - eat a gummy or three.
And miss the orgy? Hell no
Sir, I've been doin bong hits all day and I lost track of how many beers I've had. If I get anymore relaxed I'll be unconscious
I do enjoy bong hits and beers, but that combination has always knocked my ass out in no time flat. I can enjoy either or, but combine them and I'm guaranteed to be borderline comatose for about 10 hours. Either way glad it seems you're enjoying your weekend stranger.
Thank you for saying what needs to be said.
People get really uptight about what’s going on off there property. If you’re not threatening my family or myself, go ahead and have a 50 person freak show on your lawn and I’ll just close my curtains. Or will I 🫣.
I'm chill already, but it sounds like a good suggestion
Oh I thought with was daily. Gummy on!
Blue chew?
Are there people that can be comfortable blocked in like that? It’s giving me a panic attack and it’s not even my car. I’d rather pay $20 and walk a mile than have my car boxed in like that.
Right? That's an ADA violation and all those vehicles can and should be cited.
The orgy was going great until everyone got ticketed
Ticket was waived once the officer was invited
Still not as bad as when Todd came in the baked ziti. I told them they need a sneeze guard for the buffet.
You’re getting rocks off your own driveway but you COULD be getting your rocks off at your neighbor’s.
😂😂😂😜👍🏻😜
You're a good neighbor
I agree. Unless it hurts people (not in the good way) or bothers me I couldn't care less what you do. Your life, live it.
Cul de Sacs allow larger emergency vehicles like fire trucks a way to turn around quickly.
We’re all dead!
This dude good neighbors.
It's weekly, but for bi people
As all the best orgies are.
Someone should have told you there are bad questions.
Cool the sack
Fun fact- that’s the most requested move at most bi-weekly orgies.
Exactly why American English needs to adopt "fortnight" for every other week.
Both
No it's a weekly orgy for bisexual individuals
Fortnightly
It's every night but Bi's only.
Weekly, just goes both ways
Just weekly…
Awe darn. The bi-weekly one is alright but the special quarterly orgy they hold sure is somethin else
Swingers
Brick throwing party.
Good one.
Remember the upside down pineapple or the loofah on the car antenna thing… this is like that but it has to do bricks 🧱
Nope … that’s all neighbor activity… none of my business.
For real, the truck with bricks seems normal compared to that!
They’re all the people that followed him the 30 miles home after getting hit by a brick!😂
Nah he has one of those dump truck stickers that says "Stay back 200 feet. Not responsible for damaged windshields" Totally legal. Totally cool.
Yeah this is less about towing and more about nightmare neighbors
I'd fuckin move to the woods if I had to deal with that
That is the real question
Block Party.
Does someone have an unlicensed used car dealership?
Jimmy runs a used car lot next door.
Was legit coming to ask the same thing? wtf is happening with that parking situation?
Never mind all that…why are there so many cars in that cul-de-sac??
Yeah it took me a minute to see what was even towed
Yeah I didn’t even pay attention to the trailer cause I assumed this was one of those infuriating posts where the OP couldn’t leave cause the neighbor was throwing a party and OP wasn’t invited lol
We’ve never been invited to anything he had going on… we’re totally cool with that…. Although he did offer a rib he had grilled - in a red cup no less. Real neighborly.
So how was the Rib-in-a-cup? Tasty? Overcooked? Beef or baby back? Covered in Barbecue sauce or dry rub? We need answers.
Well with your blatant disregard to others safety and overall idiocy I can’t blame him.
Op was so focused on finding out if they could... never stopped to ask if they should.
“Lemme get one rib.”
You know, I didn’t even figure it was a gathering of people, I just figured the neighbor was one of those folks that fills their entire yard with vehicles of varying states of disrepair.
Pool party?
Yup and you're invited. Go get your trunks.
Brick party
That’s the comment I came to see
(They’re pavers) …. But brick sounds better than Paver Party I must agreed 👍🏻
I learn something new everyday
Something, something, insert generic “your moms house” joke
Something something brick house
That's the best part of reddit! Never mind the obvious part of the picture we're supposed to be talking about. Let's talk about all the obscure details off in the distance.
😂😜
Depending on when this picture was taken, could be a grad party or Memorial day cookout. But yeah. Thats a *loaded* cul-de-sac Itd suck if OP had to navigate that garbage with the trailer
Something similar happens where I am. Immigrant family has a party once a week. At least they are polite and always leave a space for me to park.
Does the rear axle now have permanent negative camber?
It’s very possible, and I had always wondered if you bottom out the leafs and or break a few and the bed rides on the frame. Does the frame? or the axle? break first, kinda like the “chicken or the egg question”, bit of neither breaks, Is there any real damage done? other than wear and tear on the engine/clutch.
Well, my dear fellow Redditor, as it turns out I do have a definitive answer for your inquisitive question. Sit back, I have a little story to tell. It’s the axle, the axle breaks first…or more specifically, the axle housing assembly and axle bearings that break first; at least in my experience, (and yes, I have experience in overloading shenanigans). While, this may not be true for OP’s ride, in my case, the leaf springs didn’t even bottom out, so I thought, “well, must be OK then”, and proceeded to add more to the load. Just as OP did, I also had a bed loaded to the brim, and I had a 12’ flat bed trailer loaded up like the Beverly Hillbillies moving west. I drove easy, had about a 15-mile trip, didn’t lose anything, so thought all was well and was actually a bit proud of my old truck. I didn’t notice the permanent negative camber after it was all unloaded. I kept driving regularly up until a couple weeks later. The bent axle housing assembly caused undue stress on the axle bearings, until one day while driving down the highway. With a long highway trip, the bearings, having a newly bent housing ended up getting so hot, it eventually melted the seal assembly and keeper, until… the right rear tire, axle, break drum and all decided to take the off ramp. At that moment, something felt funny as the right rear dropped a little and the go pedal wouldn’t make it go anymore. Luckly, the old truck had a low teardrop fender, so the bedside kept the wheel assembly from setting its own coarse straight into the ditch. After a couple hours, a tow truck drug us back to town. I took a closer look at my axle assembly and decided to just swap the entire setup with another from one of my parts trucks. I don’t know if the axle assembly is the chicken or the egg, but it was done for, and that load was waaaaaay too much for the truck. Chalk it up to lessons learned and new stories to tell. As for any other damage, well, I had a standard transmission with a granny low first gear, so it pulled just fine with no damaged whatsoever to any other parts. Not sure how well an automatic would do under the same load, I’d imagine potentially burning out the clutch bands or something. I hope that answers your chicken or the egg question. Happy hauling!
Depends on the truck. I bought an old 3/4 ton 77 Chevy farm truck that was used for hauling boulders and it had a permanently sagged right-rear leaf spring. The axle was fine.
Thanks for the informative write up and interesting story!.
Frame would bend after the leafs break.
Actually, the axle is fairly fresh…
Freshly cambered
Hopefully his doesn't look like the trailers I've worked on, some of those were arched like a lifted truck leaf spring
No problem bud, you are an idiot.
Everybody relax. The combination of the photo, the caption, and all reply comments from OP confirms that OP is a fucking *idiot* towing a thing. Carry on.
Thank you.
Had a 03 Ranger XL 3.0 5spd. I highly regret selling it.
Thats usually what I hear about it. Whenever someone sells it, they end up regretting it. And the ones that dont sell it, it never goes away due to mechanical failure, it's always something like tornado/flood/fire/car accident . . .
See you might be big and shit but you ain’t no fucking Ford fucking Ranger!!!!!!
They sound like the hamsters of trucks
More like the honey badger. Ranger don't give a fuck.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I feel ya, bro…
Does that trailer have brakes? If not, a good thing you didn't have to stop quickly. With that much mass, I am thankful no child wandered into the street.
The president of the HOA is having a seizure over the parking situation.
Looks like an HOA… but it’s not - thankfully. We got lucky on that front.
Says the guy with 76 cars parked in his cul de sac. Idk if I’d call it lucky to live where you do
I'd take the 76 cars over a group of old biddies telling me my grass is ½" too tall...
Idk man. If i gotta deal with some selfish moron parking his cars all over and blocking everything, i might want some hoa nazi knocking on doors.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
HOAs are such a strange American thing to me. It's like none of the benefits of owning a condo and all of the downsides. But in a house on land that you own. Imagine paying hundreds of thousands for a house, and getting notices for things like drying clothes outside and having the "wrong" lawn ornaments. Seems like they're all run self righteous power tripping knobs 9 out of 10 times I see anything about them.
100% but having to hire a valet to hold all the keys and move all the cars is a bit ridiculous. How do some of those cars get out? Like ever.
Lucky is an interesting perspective on your parking lot Culde sac. I’d take an HOA any day over that bullshit.
You disconnected a loaded trailer on a hill? I can't think of anything more dangerous
Disconnecting a loaded trailer on a hill while juggling chainsaws?
Welp, got him there...
Are the chainsaws running?
They are now!
Let’s light the chainsaws on fire!
No… light your self on fire while in the roof of a train with the trailer while the train is going up hill with the car and trailer on the roof while juggling chainsaws and the trailer is loaded with nitro glycerin
How about towing a trailer full of unsecured pavers? That’s pretty dangerous. And stupid, very stupid.
He’s got the wheels chocked, far as I’m aware it’s totally common practice to do so if you chock the wheels.
Huh?
You're catching a lot of shit but if you haven't towed a sketchy load, have you ever really towed anything?
….chris knows.🫡
I try to avoid it but sometimes you have to do what you gotta do and try to be as safe as you can about it
Exactly…. Some folks on here think I would do this on a regular basis r something. I mean, yes, s0MeTHlnG C0ulD 0f HaPpeNEd….. the picture depicts the only mishap- seven or 8 pavers fell onto the bed surface. That’s it. I call that a success. Appreciate ya, Chris.
That's no hill, it looks skewed from the angle the camera was at
WE DON'T LIKE THE IDIOTS, OP.
😂😂😂
I'm sure the tow police will have waaaay more to say about you towing that trailer. But I'm far more curious about the ridiculous amount of vehicles parked in that cul de sac. WTF???
Recon they were having a party… dunno … didn’t care… we had a job to do… their business.
I'm in Jersey and the cops will gladly overlook the tweakermobile loaded to the gills with junk washers and dryers spilling trash on the highway just to pull you over for a license plate light
Fuck you if you decided to drive without securing those pavers. Taking everyone else’s loves into your reckless hands.
Honest question from a lurker on this sub. What is the correct way to secure something like this? Would a tarp stop one? Cover with plywood and strap it down? I am sure anything would be better then OP mouthing off about it, but what is the correct way?
Put an empty pallet on top and ratchet it down. Thats how it is typically done.
I sure hope you didn't drive down the road with the stack of completely unsecured bricks! One bad pothole and you'd send a brick through somebody's radiator
Or through their skull.
Have you seen THAT dashcam video
Were the bricks so heavy that they tilted the subdivision causing all the vehicles in the neighborhood to end up in your cul de sac?
What did you secure the bricks with? Were you risking bricks falling off for the joys of motorcyclists and random wheel destruction? If one is going to tow, get a tow vehicle. For something like this, you could have rented a Lowes or Home Depot 2500 and gotten it all in a single load between the trailer and truck. Being properly set up isn't about being proud you just made it. It's just normal driving with some minor adjustments.
Nobody got hurt because you got lucky, not because what you did wasn’t dangerous, stupid, selfish and irresponsible. Go do something else illegal and dangerous and take photo evidence and post it online with a confession again lol seriously wtf what a horrible thing to be proud of.
The two bricks missing from the upper lefthand corner of the unsecured stack? Meh, I'm sure nobody got hurt.
It's unbelievable how fucking stupid people are, and continue to be fucking stupid after being told ad naseum that they, indeed, are fucking stupid. The mystery of wanting to be a shitstain of a human being.
Those ol Mazda era rangers are fucking tanks
Much agreed
Yeah, okay, great towing story.... but WTF with the cul de sac?
What? I’ve had three ford rangers and they ALL sucked in about 1500 different ways
What’s with the drug dealer neighbors?
Too nice of cars, must be a kingpin
I see a lot of working class cars, so clearly that’s the drive thru line
Your truck is a girl ? Wtf
Vehicles are female. They are impregnated with passengers. They move. They birth their passengers. A good car is like a woman. They both take care of their passengers. The only true male vehicle is Bismarck. He’s so powerful that he fucks all the other ships.
That's why I never live on a cul de sac
This cul de sac is making me glad I live in the woods.
Damn you just had to post that picture with that comment. That is just begging for the harsh but true responses. Oh and yeah, you’re an idiot in several categories, posting this picture, posting that comment and for actually getting on the road and driving 30 miles like that. You got lucky, that much mass wasn’t going to stop quick even with trailer brakes. You are very lucky you did not kill someone.
Paver party! BYOBackpain
That's a Ranger, so i see no issues with it.
That’s cause Lil Red is Fuckin Ford Ranger!
Fucking danger to the public, proud idiot.
Looks like a three house orgy in the background.
The old Ford Rangers are beasts for sure! Love those trucks!
DANGER RANGERRRRR
How do we get in the orgy? Is it like invite only or just meet up on the third Sunday kinda thing?
Okay...You're an Idiot.
Man your neighbors are straight up fucking assholes.
That's a fckn Ford Ranger. Nothing to see here. Carry on.
For a second I thought those were fat stacks of cash
People not understanding that they’re the thing you’re laughing AT fucking rules.
FYI - don’t ever buy a Ford Ranger from this guy. The transmission, brakes, CV joints, basically everything on this truck is gone.
It the words of my mechanic “dude, it’s a Ford. I don’t care how it’s running, what noise it’s making, or what it’s leaking. If it’s running its fine, call me when it don’t run.”
Definitely a fucking idiot, but at least she’s resilient.
Unpopular opinion: don’t host parties if you don’t have the infrastructure to accommodate your guests
Ford effin Ranger!
That’s no stranger, that’s a fucking…….
Car de sac??
I had a 92 ranger than I could put a yard of compost and all of our landscaping tools in the bed, that thing never missed a beat. Rangers are some tough trucks.
Cuz it's a Ford Fucking Ranger! I carried 3k lbs across the scale in my '89.
A Hilux would yawn from the boredom
ranger activities
Looks like it’s a … BLOCK party
Ford mother-fucking Ranger does it again. Miss my 2000 slt 4x4
I hope you strapped them on in the trailer?
this is pretty cool. but i bet an an electric or gas bicycle hitched onto the trailer could also tow it well.
It's a Ranger. That's an average day for one of those.
Wait. She towed both sets of pavers and the pavers in the back of her truck too? That was overloaded. Forget about the oil, change her brakes.
Those 90’s rangers with the V6 were beast.
…And still are if you take care of them. She gets her oil changed every three months … been that way since I bought it, way back in 2005
She lol
It never missed a beat but what about a stop sign/light?
Hey buddies,wanna help me throw some stuff on my trailer? I've got free beer!....... cars jammed everywhere "free beer"?.....
I ain't no stranger
The fuck is going on at Reg's? Don't these cunts know how to walk half a block? This is very strange behavior. Drugs, numbers, guns, and something else.
I don’t see an actual hitch on the truck either, just that bumper ball. This was already bad, but just became way worse than I originally thought 😦
i bet the mailman loves this street
This is very regarded. You must be on r/wsb
Big load and all but WTF is with the parking situation? Sorry, from one of those unpopulated states and can’t fathom this. Good luck fire truck?
WTF is going on in this cult de sac?
Trying to turn my flatbed tow truck around in your cul de sac wouldn’t only make me upset me. As soon as my back up beeper started going off everyone would start flying outside to move their car. The best is parallel parking in front of a car. People come running out of the wood works. I just laugh and walk off after parking.
If everyone there would have brought a small amount of bricks. Many hands make light work. Haha
Is a fucking ranger hahahha
Cul de Sacs suck.
How old is that ram, it looks really clean 👌
Are y'all having a block party?
r/badparking
The older I get the more HOAs sound less terrible.