Attended a job in a field at the side of the A31 near Wimborne today and got chatting to the landowner as you do. Eventually he asks me if I’ve noticed a hole in his hedge nearby and produces his phone and shows me a couple of photos he’d taken.
They were of a trailer wheel - stud holes elongated and chewed with remarkably a couple of sheared studs and nuts attached still - it had come off the offside, miraculously not hit an oncoming vehicle and gone through the guys hedge.
Trucker cracked on, never missed a beat.
Bet he got a surprise at the next drop 
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Attended a job in a field at the side of the A31 near Wimborne today and got chatting to the landowner as you do. Eventually he asks me if I’ve noticed a hole in his hedge nearby and produces his phone and shows me a couple of photos he’d taken.
They were of a trailer wheel - stud holes elongated and chewed with remarkably a couple of sheared studs and nuts attached still - it had come off the offside, miraculously not hit an oncoming vehicle and gone through the guys hedge.
Trucker cracked on, never missed a beat.
Bet he got a surprise at the next drop
Out of curiosity, how did he know it was from the offside?
Without seeing it come off or having it reclaimed.? Unless it was donkeys years ago when there “handed” threads on wheel studs, maybe.
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Most unusual these days as wheels SHOULD be torqued.
Years ago it was more prevalent with sometimes disastrous consequences.
We lost a few rear wheels on rigid eight wheelers back in the 70’s/80’s, always on a motorway and in all cases the wheels were never found as the drivers didn’t usually miss them until they pulled into the services. Quite a known ‘problem’ back in those days ‘Lost wheel syndrome’ I believe it was called? The short propshafts between the rear axles also used to fly off occasionally!
Pete.
The guy saw it come off apparently - anyway he got £150 for the tyre, said it was nearly new (maybe a logical explanation there).
Sorry forgot to say, it was the week before last.
