amandasgramma
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dbbls wrote:amandasgramma wrote:I know -- this is a dumb question --- but what is a WDH???? Apparently it's thingy that prevents your trailer from blowing over. ROL -- I like your answer best!!!! That's my description of "things" -- it's a thingy, doohicky, thing-a-ma-jig......ROL
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Turtle n Peeps
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goducks10 wrote:Maybe WD wouldn't keep it from fliping, so maybe he should've just pulled over at some point. Also wonder if a system like an EQ wear the bars are locked into the tongue more than chains would've made the truck flip also?
It would not matter if he pulled over or not. If your in a high wind or tornado your toast. Moving, sitting, it does not matter.
Here is a semi trailer that blew over just sitting still.
Your catching on with the WD in this deal. Yes if he had a WD on this truck and trailer he would not only have wasted his trailer he would have wasted his truck also. Lucky thing he did not have a WD in this situation.
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skipnchar wrote:For heavers sake SOMEBODY answseer the question before he blows up 
Yes, but the WDH would have kept it straight and level as it turned over in the wind.
If you're going over, you at least want to look good doing it.
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In this case a WDH may not have helped. Although a WDH would put more pressure back on the trailer axles in turn making the trailer slightly heavier. Not enough though to stip this from happening in this video!
However this video shows all the wrong things to do when towing a trailer.... Dont tow in high winds, always use a WDH and use some type of sway control!
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Filling one of the tanks would have done more to keep it from flipping.
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dodge guy wrote:In this case a WDH may not have helped. Although a WDH would put more pressure back on the trailer axles in turn making the trailer slightly heavier. Not enough though to stip this from happening in this video!
However this video shows all the wrong things to do when towing a trailer.... Dont tow in high winds, always use a WDH and use some type of sway control!
When I looked at the video I was positive that the trailer began to sway. WDH and sway control may have prevented the accident. Once the trailer began to sway it was all over. A trailer of this size will tip over from sway even without wind.
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Mr Bojangles
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RCMAN46:
You are thinking correctly (IMHO).
Without wind...., one needs "sway control" to prevent "whipping action" to start ocuring. Once "whipping" starts, the TV's (Tow vehicles) control is influenced to the point that it starts to add to "whipping action" and ALL control (forward movement) is lost and an accident is most likely.
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Trailer weight most likely only thing to influence (prevent ?) this incident IMO with wind conditions in video.
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They looked like they were going rather slow - 20mph maybe? I don't think sway had much to do with it. That wasn't "sway" due to traveling, that was a trailer being blown around by high winds. What else could they do? Similar to what someone posted, they could have stopped in the middle of the road and run cables over the TT and secured it to stakes driven into the pavement...
I wonder if they had high wind warnings? And it looks like there was no place to pull off out of the way.
This looks to me like one of those things that is just an accident.
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I watched the video 3 times. Me, I can see that it always was being shoved/blown to the left, not swaying back and forth.
Then watch the terrain. When the wind effects were not heeded and as the traller came to the crest of the terrain where probably the wind was max without any interferance, the force was enough to tip it over.
Just my take on it. 
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The Mad Norsky
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High winds alone in that video. You could hear it on the audio as they went back towards the tipped over trailer.
Looked like the driver of the vehicle was going slow, trying to be careful, and wind just tipped it. Short of stopping, there was little else that could have been done.
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