Overload of the Day

[Truck Shop]

On construction I watched as a LN9000 3 axle was backed down to river edge with
refrigerator plus size rippity wrappity. Raised the box, it wedged, he didn't know it
yet and continued to raise box, front tires started to become airborne because it
was tilting on the walking beam and the walking beam had no stops on the back axle.
So the box went vertical, and it finally let loose which dropped the steer from roughly
3' in the air which shot his head into the roof.

 

[materthegreater]

Just pop the clutch......

Unfortunately this truck has a foolish Allison... I did back up and hit the brakes though. Didn't help.

And we have a winner:

Froze perhaps

I loaded them up covered in wet mud yesterday and wanted to wait until the ground froze up to dump them in location. It got down to 17°F overnight and glued them in solid.


So much interest in a dumb box of rocks

 

[materthegreater]

. . . And then it all goes at once . . .

Didn't make as much noise as you might expect when it did let go

 

[digger doug]

Didn't make as much noise as you might expect when it did let go

I figured you left it up and walked home, came back the next day......No noise at all.

 

[Willie B]

When they hang up at all, I expect damage. Mine held the whole load of boulders refusing to dump once. I made the bad decision to move. 14' bed shifted off to the side, I thought I might have twisted the frame, but it seems OK.

 

[materthegreater]

I figured you left it up and walked home, came back the next day......No noise at all.

I left it up and started walking away for lunch break. 100 yards away and they let loose

 

[DMiller]

Woke up to screaming wind and rain that was not forecast. As picked up phone this was news:

Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after column hit by large ship; cars, perhaps people in water

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday after a column was hit by a large container ship, sending cars and possibly people into into the Patapsco River.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Willie B]

September 11 2001 I heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center in New York.
I was working on a new $1,000,000 house. Nobody on site had more than a radio in there truck & no cell service there.
My first thought was amateur pilot, getting a great photo.
Owner went where he was staying & brought back a radio. A second plane hit the other tower. It was then instantly clear this wasn't a mistake.
As the hours pass, I wonder if this one will prove to be an idiot at the wheel, a malfunction, or terrorism?

 

[Truck Shop]

Captain of the Valdez--{we seem to have fetched up hard on the rocks}.

 

[Delmer]

Reliable speculation says it was power failure on the ship, they were having issues shown by the black smoke going on and off. Never attribute to malice, that which can easily be explained by incompetence. Read that somewhere, seems to apply. All bets are off if another ship crashes...

 

[Truck Shop]

It was built by freightliner---check engine lights came on and it derated & died.

 

[DMiller]

Was thinking a Benz Company build!! even though not really funny, several likely died.

 

[Truck Shop]

Was thinking a Benz Company build!! even though not really funny, several likely died.

Correct several probably did---how many probably died in chicago land last weekend, no gave
a crap about that. Equally bad.

 

[DMiller]

Very true

 

[DMiller]

Two rescued were work party on deck, six missing a concrete truck and driver also. Several cars being located to recover occupants. Water temp is in mid forties, hypothermia in minutes.

 

[HATCHEQUIP]

Sure looked like it went hard to starboard, straight at that pier

 

[Truck Shop]

 

[HATCHEQUIP]

And here we have the constant endeavor to see who can build the biggest front end loader.
And keep raising the ante with a name & number that says it's a gargantuan---prophylactic.
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Wander how many quarters it takes to get one of these and how they fit this in that box on the wall.

 

[Truck Shop]

Wander how many quarters it takes to get one of these and how they fit this in that box on the wall.

You spray it on.

 

[stinky64]

Have done that fancy maneuver with a roll off truck several times trying to pick overloaded 30 yard cans from job sites. Just because it says on the side of the can "do not fill past this line" doesn't mean you can fill them with dirt or concrete ya flargin' morons!