>> Educated Engineering Students did that? > Educated engineer != common sense.
True dat. Same variety of practical don't-kill-yourself abilities in engineering school as anyplace else. Only would have taken _one_ person on that trip to have any experience properly loading trailers, or else boats or aircraft, to prevent that. Ultimately, blame the driver. Likely those kids would have managed a perfect loading, if only they'd known that it was something you needed to do. My son and I were driving (him at wheel) and were on the road behind a motorcycle where the guy had 'cleverly' arranged for his golf clubs to ride pillion. I remember thinking to myself that the situation looked dicey to me. As our speeds increased I could see the bike start to go into a death wobble. The guy salvaged the situation and was able to slow down, and pulled off. "Did you see that?" "Yes". "He almost died right there." That led into a little discussion of centers of gravity, and loading. Those club heads were a couple of feet above head height, the weight was all in the _worst_ possible place. I felt sorry for the guy, having invested all that effort into making a custom carrying bracket/suicide machine. Glad he didn't lose his bike, clubs, and life, nor take anybody else with him. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
