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Nice truck, bud. And you have some energetic helpers, too.
First load of dry red oak on my new to me wood hauler
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One of my friends had one , one rainy night in late February on his way back to work he saw headlights for a transport truck , what he didn't see was the log trailer 90* across a main highway as the tractor was backing into his driveway because the tractor headlights were on the opposite side of the road , no reflectors on the black trailer and the lights were covered with mud ..
My friend hit the log loader leg going about 60 mph .

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60 mph to Zero in the distance of the front bumper to almost the windshield .
All the airbags deployed , when he came to he could hear people yelling , he hit the power lock button and they pried the door open enough so he could get out , he walked around the truck and waited for the ambulance .
He got banged up pretty good , a broken cheek bone , a broken sternum and a torn hip rotator cuff but was able to go back to work at the end of April albeit much slower .

We chalk up the survival on 3 things ,
#1 , The engineers were on the ball .
#2 , Nissan's QC is and desire to make a good product is right there .
#3 , It just wasn't his time .

If anyone gives you a hard time about buying a "Jap" truck , I'll get you my buddy's number , he'll set them straight for you .
BTW , his Iphone was on the passenger seat , it exploded when it hit the dash and there's a set of keys jammed between the dash and the center console .

Nice "Jap" truck ;)
Wow that looks pretty bad. Glad he was ok. Nothing wrong with a nissan truck or any of them. They all have ther flaws and good points. One thing i will say is if he was in any type car he would probly not.be here which is why i drive a truck. My dad and i had a head on with a transport truck back in 1999 and if it wasnt for the truck i think we would not have survived. It crunched the front pretty good and shoved the motor back into the firewall. It even broke the front axle on the tractor.

I think ther is a video of a nissan on youtube that hit a million miles.


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Just checked it was a toyota tundra. I was wrong.
 
Another load of oak splits headed to the stacking area.

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I recall you saying this trailer was 4' x 8' and had a 5,000lb capacity. Pretty impressive for a trailer that size. Was this trailer designed for a small roller or something else compact and heavy? Usually you don't see trailers that small with dual axles.
 
I recall you saying this trailer was 4' x 8' and had a 5,000lb capacity. Pretty impressive for a trailer that size. Was this trailer designed for a small roller or something else compact and heavy? Usually you don't see trailers that small with dual axles.

Not sure if i stated it's capacity but It looks home made. I bought it from a friend of a friend for 100 bucks with the floor rotted out, one wheel bearing was froze up and it didn't have the expanded sheet metal on the sides. It has what looks like 2500bl axles that are welded on separately with no equalizer. It looks like it was a single axle and they cut it off and moved it and added another. That's a little over a half cord of green water oak that was a living standing tree just a few days ago. According to the weight table a cord a cord of green red oak is 5500lbs so half would be 2750 on it as it sits and it looks like it will carry much more. I wouldn't try hauling that much down the road with it but here in the wood yard it really doesn't mater. 5000lbs may be pushing it a little bit.
I like it because it has little tires and it sits low and is easy to load and unload. I can reach all the way over from one side to the other. My other trailer is to wide and I have to unload one side then turn it around and unload the other side because I can't reach across like I can with the little one.
 
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