Posted by Mark - IN. on March 07, 2011 at 17:44:01 from (24.14.63.220):
In Reply to: Moving a Housetrailer posted by Danny Prosser on March 07, 2011 at 13:44:10:
Grew up in Elkhart, IN. when it was the mobile home and RV capitol of the world. Now, is a dust bowl, but that don't change nothing.
Skyline Mobile Home used to make 60' and 70' long mobile homes, push them out the front door, a fella backed up his Ford Jubilee to it, lifted the hitch with his, and wheeled every last one of them to the backs of the plant and parked them for the trailer toters to drive them off to their final destinations in America. I have to admit that when they were getting 65' and 70' long, he'd lift the front end on take off, but it always came back down so he could steer it.
About the same time, down the road from Skyline was a trucking company that specialized in delivering mobile homes around the country, Morgan Drivaway. I saw these two guys back up to a 65'x14' to move for someone locally, within a few miles from Point A to Point B. These two guys used a then new one ton Dodge with dualies and L.P gas 440, that could have handled any travel trailer with ease, but they chose to use it to tote this huge mobile home. I stopped to watch that one becuase a mobile home that sized really needed a C-50 or larger Chevy, 1600 series International or larger, F500 Ford or larger, 500 series or larger Dodge...but these two guys were bound and determined to use that little one ton, and did. Oh that poor thing was begging for mercy from the time they lowered the tongue down on its hitch and its frame squated on the rear axle, but they drove off with it, barely, but they did. How har they made it, all the way, or until broke down, I don't know, but I watched them disappear down the road.
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