M5 Clive on Radio 2......

[Jack]

Christ they get every where - is no where safe??!!

 

Jeremy Vine was talking about jack knifing trailers - click on the link below and look down the right hand side go to LISTEN AGAIN and click on Tuesday and then when the player window opens up and starts to play - push the tab along to 1 hour 27 mins :cool2:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/vine/

 

Great stuff Clive.

[M5Clive]

The offending article............as mentioned on Jeremy Vine yesterday.

 

[Bodge Deep]

You had the ear of the nation and never a mention of HMVF or Bolero... for shame

KP duty for you for the week!

[M5Clive]

On a similar theme my boss said to me today, "Christ, 8 million listeners tune into Jeremy Vine on a daily basis - Couldn't you have said that you were towing a trailer full of domestic water softeners instead of an old car?"

 

Incidentally, our business specialises in supplying and installing water softeners!

[Jack]

You had the ear of the nation and never a mention of HMVF or Bolero... for shame

KP duty for you for the week!

 

 

fine point Bodge - no mention of GMC's or anything. He will be asking to have an agent next........

[Degsy]

What were you using as the towing vehicle Clive?

[M5Clive]

What were you using as the towing vehicle Clive?

 

Renault Traffic - In hindsight, something not quite heavy/man enough for the overall train weight of the Chrysler, trailer and van combine - which although had nothing to do with the actual 'snake experience' as described on the radio, probably wouldn't have been a pretty sight if we had needed to stop sharply in an emergency!

[Degsy]

It might have had something to do with it Clive if the trailer was too nose heavy for the vehicle then it would make it more prone to snake. I have had it happen to me on a number of occasions even with a tri-axle.

[Adrian Barrell]

As can too little nose weight. I had an interesting experience not unlike Clives on the M25 some years ago. I was towing a twin axle trailer with a Range Rover and it started to go.....gave it a bit of power to stop the wild snaking and then drove the rest of the way home at 40 mph.:sweat:

[ashley]

Hi Clive,

for a vehicle though not large and the trailer is probaly capable of carrying the weight, hard to explain...there is a lot of mass (side of vehicle) at a fairly high point above the center of gravity of the trailer which i think heightened the `snaking` feeling/activity maybe a trailer with wheels on the outside would give you more stability or refrain from overtaking :-D

 

Ashley

[Chrisg]

Happened to me on the A23 going down Handcross Hill with a LWB Land Rover Safari towing a twin axle (hired) trailer with a SWB on. Had to give it more power and drive out of it. All the other traffic stayed well clear

Frighten the s*** out of me

[gritineye]

Happened to me going north out of Nutley over Ashdown Forrest on the A22,

A friend was driving his Range Rover towing a heavy 2 wheeled trailer with a trials Landrover on it, rounding a down hill bend it started to snake and built up so bad that the front corner of the trailer bashed in the lh rear corner of the RR, which was rolled so far over to the right that the draw bar went under the exhaust with out hitting it, this caused the trailer brakes to come on which yanked it straight only to have the same thing happen again to the other side!:shake::shake::shake:

 

My mates feet were dancing about undecided and I was yelling 'don't brake don't brake' and thankfully he didn't. :sweat:

 

It yanked straight again and the whole lot then jumped over a ditch and ended up quite a way out on the forrest, there was a big drop the other side of the road.:shake::shake::shake::shake::shake: Skid marks showed we had been on two wheels on both sides of the road with short skid marks from the trailer braking in between. Apart from both sides of the RR no other damage was done and the load was still secure and thankfully the road was clear, after the massive adrenaline rush had abated we drove on.

 

I had towed this trailer at least a couple of thousand of miles over a few years with my LR 110 with no probs, we put it down to worn suspension bushes on the RR and I bought a new 4 wheeled Ifor Williams the next day!