A Scrapper's Dream

**Mick** · 02-22-2014, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Patriot76

In two weeks, 3,000 miles have been put on my butt crossing the midwest. 30 miles from Omaha a strange thing happened. Going 70 mph hauling a 30 ft. gooseneck loaded with a skid steer and all the attachments owned, a crack was heard. Looked back to see a wheel and tire from the trailer in turbo speed flying across the interstate. It seems the wheel broke all the lugs from the wheel assembly and decided to pursue it's own uncharted path. Limped into Omaha, unloaded skid steer and trailer and went to relax. I have no idea what happened, but since no one was hurt I am feeling much better now. If anyone knows what causes this, I would love to know. Otherwise it was a freak event in scrapping that will reveal itself someday.

I had that happen on a one ton dually with sander loaded with two tons of sand/salt that I'd just had new tires put on. About 20 miles later one of the duals on the driver side went across the road. Over $800 in repairs later....

Mechanic told me it was likely from not torquing the lugs and most likely had been too tight. The (national) shop got out of the warranty because I hadn't gone back within 20 miles to have the tires "re-torqued".

**Patriot76** · 03-02-2014, 06:56 PM

This is the ramp that was built to allow access to the bottom level of the building and the staging area for extracting the metal from the building with a excavator.