Thought you all might get a kick out of this... I needed to get the 55 the 5 or 6 blocks from storage to my house so I can get out of the storage and save some money. I really didn't want to come-a-long the damn thing up on the car trailer to move it 6 blocks, so here is what I came up with. 1 rusty leaf spring + a short length of chain + 3 bolts = redneck towbar!! I did have to sit in the car and steer of course but the damn thing worked killer and the spring was a shock absorber. Very smooth tow!! I was laughing all the way to my house. Very damn funny!
Good Idea, hey in a pinch, it worked, the spring action probably softened the pull also. Genius! Hey that is a good buy on that car, I PM'd a guy about it.
Good Idea, hey in a pinch, it worked, the spring action probably softened the pull also. Genius! Hey that is a good buy on that car, I PM'd a guy about it.
Thanks.. It was totally soft..and with the rubber bushings it had enough flex to make turns without popping or binding the chain..Should have seen the loooks I got though..Guy p***ed us in a pickup and almost ran off the shoulder looking at us haha!
Damn! what a good idea! i know we've all seen people flat-towing rigs with a chain and seen the chain "snap" hard enough to cause damage. this seems like a good way to soften the slack. pretty short though, better pay attention!
HOTROD...NA your not a redneck, just a very smart man. and HEY ain't that what america is all about! man i love it...POP.
thats killer! I'm gonna have to try this technique out for myself, Just fo towing **** a few blocks,, thanks!
Thanks for all the compliments! The idea is to keep it short, it works more as a towbar than a chain. Its impossible for the towed vehicle to hit the car in front, it just absorbs the shock and slows the back car. I'm in Idaho Falls, 4200 ft. al***ude or so, plenty of snow here!! BTW, my wife thought I was completely nuts until she towed me home, then she thought it was funny too!
Man you don`t happen to know Paul Gonzales or Rodger Littleford do ya?! That looks like something they would have thought of...or atleast some of the other knuckleheads that they run around with.
There's a "You know you're a redneck if..." joke I hadn't heard yet... but I like the idea enough to maybe try it up on the farm this summer.
I was taught that trick by an Idaho farmer 30 years ago. Provided the chain and pipe are big enough you could tow a loaded farm truck that way. I've never done it myself but wouldn't be afraid to try it for a short distance.
A bunch of years ago, my friend "borrowed" his brothers 3-wheeler and we headed out in the woods for an afternoon of trail riding. Way out in the middle of no-where the ignition went south on the 3-wheeler. In a mad rush to get the thing home and tucked into the garage before his brother found out - We took off our jeans and tied them together leg to leg and started for home towing him with my Yamaha 175. The jeans kept pulling apart so we would stop, tie them back together, and take off again. By the time we got home, we had used our shirts too. Needless to say, we got lots of looks riding down the side of the road in nothing but our tighty-whiteys and a knotted up ball of denim and T-shirts being used as a very short tow rope!! TOTALLY RED-NECK!!!!
That is cool,if you rig a coil sping on the ends then no worrys at all,be like bumper cars at the fair.Good idea at work........................YG
A fireman at our station says an old piece of 1 3/4" Firehose is all but indestructable to tow with and pull people out of the mud or snow. Hes from Arkansas
I'm still laughing... the only way the story could be better is if the two of you had also "borrowed" some gas with a garden hose along the way.
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