Overload of the Day

[Birken Vogt]

Well of course it is an "emergency rush type job" that way they can suck all kinds of overtime out of the job.

It's all contractors, the State doesn't do that type of work themselves. Some places they are grinding a slot a few inches deep and repaving with epoxy where the ruts are too bad. Other places they have been digging out the entire slab and reconstructing it. All late in the fall when snow can fly any day or night. Of course we had a fair bit of low snow yesterday and Wednesday so I'm sure they are done for the season now.

 

[cfherrman]

All this talk of tire chains reminds me that I have a brand new set for sale

 

[Oxbow]

All this talk of tire chains reminds me that I have a brand new set for sale

What size and type?

Scratch that, by the time I paid shipping I could probably just by some here!

 

[Truck Shop]

Not exactly overloaded, but a rather novel way to move a dozer, at least around here .

It's not over loaded, big rubber on trailer, no speed limit being broken, has plenty of warning
lights, for short distance it's a good idea no paper needed.

 

[cfherrman]

What size and type?

Scratch that, by the time I paid shipping I could probably just by some here!

The 11r22.5 kind, nice chains, I think, they are still in the bag.

Not much use for tire chains in Kansas anymore.

https://www.etrailer.com/Tire-Chains/Glacier/PWH2247SC.html

 

[OzDozer]

Looks to me like he could've fitted another couple of logs on.......

 

[Truck Shop]

Wow-proud of those, I was buying same with cam locks and bar over lock for $54.00 a bag.
Although it was 200 bags on a pallet price.

 

[Spud_Monkey]

I got 2 sets of dual rails sitting around, I contemplate time to time whether I should get another decent semi or stick with a 6 x 6 and try to find a way to make it work with more speed and power.

 

[OzDozer]

A JD450 behind a SRW Ford Superduty?? I wouldn't want to be sharing the road with him!

 

[Birken Vogt]

Looks like the curb will touch the rim when that front trailer tire pulls over it

 

[Spud_Monkey]

A JD450 behind a SRW Ford Superduty?? I wouldn't want to be sharing the road with him!

Don't know trailer specs, but that's a DWR Ford which is capable of handling that 16k or less weight plus 4k worth of trailer

 

[JaredV]

But towing that much on the bumper? How much weight is on the steer axle?

 

[OzDozer]

Spud Monkey - My bad, I thought I saw SRW - now with my cleaned glasses, I see it's DRW, and capable.
But the receiver hitch (or more importantly, the way it's all attached to the chassis) is the big $64 question.

I had a receiver hitch on my 4WD F-100 and the chassis rails ended up cracking, just occasionally pulling a 1000 U.K. gallon (4500 litre) 4 wheel, articulated front axle, fuel tanker.

 

[Willie B]

A JD450 behind a SRW Ford Superduty?? I wouldn't want to be sharing the road with him!

Actually, The trailer is overloaded, but not far beyond the tow rating of the truck. I believe the platform rating of F350 SRW is around 22000 LBS. An early JD450 was only about 14000. That newer one looks much heavier.

 

[cfherrman]

Truck weighs around 8 probably so unless that trailer is made of ghost metal, it's probably not great

 

[Pops52]

Looks to me like he could've fitted another couple of logs on.......

Here's one I saw on C/L . I think a lot of these are just staged, nobody could be that stupid, right?

 

[Truck Shop]

ere's one I saw on C/L . I think a lot of these are just staged, nobody could be that stupid, right?

That's very common east of the Rockies.

 

[OzDozer]

There are any number of people who just have to see just how far they can test the engineers calculations.

Remember when we had these plates on the dash or the firewall? They had the same type of people back then, too!

I can recall demolishing an old prospectors hut in the W.A. Goldfields. Under the floorboards was a copy of the "Kalgoorlie Miner" newspaper, dated 1936.

In the motoring ads there was one amusing ad. "For Sale. 1935 model, one-ton Chev truck. Will carry two tons".

 

[Truck Shop]

There are any number of people who just have to see just how far they can test the engineers calculations.

Remember when we had these plates on the dash or the firewall? They had the same type of people back then, too!

Correct, per-capita same number of morons now as was then except we have youtube to
thank for showing more of it.

 

[OzDozer]

When I bought my derelict gold mine in the early 1970's, there were a couple of Huntingdon Crushing Mills left installed, out of six that had originally been installed around 1947.

huntingdon crushing mill - Google Search

In the bushes nearby there was the remains of a 1-ton AA Ford truck - just the chassis and wheels and a few panels, and the remains of a wooden tray.

An old Slav prospector named Mick lived nearby - and he'd been there since 1923 - and I was talking to him one day about the Huntingdon Mills - and how they got them to the mine?
The rail line ran past about a mile away, and the Mills would have been sent down by rail - but I was keen to find out how they got them from the siding to the mine.

"Oh, they brought them up here on the old Ford truck!", said Mick - gesturing to the wreck of the old wooden-spoked wheel, AA Ford!

"But a Huntingdon Mill weighs SIX TONS!", I said to him.
Old Mick grinned. "Yes, I know that! So, we drove real slow! But you shoulda seen those back tyres, I thought they was gonna bust!!"