Whoa, that was close!dvideohd said:We pulled the 26D to in front of our house. Parked on the street and unhooked the truck while doing some maintenance...
My son and I heard a noise as we were setting up a pressure washer - and when we turned around... the 26D and trailer were rolling down the street.
There is almost NO grade on the street... a basketball or other balls will not roll on it... There was just enough of a slope to get the water to run off..... "Whoa....."
Doesn't take much to get it started.. stopping is a good deal more interesting, I think...
--jerry
I use a 2003 Nissan Xterra v6 4x4 for towing my Mac 26D, and it works fine. This is one of the few v6's in it's class to be on a ladder truck frame and has a 5000 lb towing capacity.
I've had a similar experience when I just had to tow my boat 40 feet to a different parking spot. I figured nothing could go wrong in 40 feet so I didn't bother to hook up the backup chains or to even turn the front wheel to it's sideways position (I did crank the front wheel up all the way, just didn't turn it sideways).
Half way to the new spot, I forgot about the speedbump and when I hit it too fast I heard a terrible "pop", and saw my boat lurching to port and just about crashing on the ground before the momentum caused it to right itself. Next thing I saw was the boat passing me on the right before it came to a stop just in front of a fire hydrant.