So a 50 ton heavy wrecker couldn't get it out. We had to leave it overnight and come back the next day with 60 ton rotator.Like isn't the right way to react to your post. The lady should have been charged with careless/reckless driving. That could have ended a lot worse. Must have been on the phone or something. How do you not see a fricken big crane! I imagine you needed a big tow truck to get out?
Yeah the county had dug up the ditch several weeks prior right at the edge of the road.Lot of water setting in that ditch. Doesn't look like much of a hard bottom to it either.
Once you get on the shoulder, if its soft, it just sucks you right in.
Top heavy like they are, you're correct to be happy its not on its side. They go over easier than one would think.
?I may have posted it here, but I came across a 50 ton truck on it's side on a gravel driveway coming up off the Roza Dam site. Paging @Truck Shop
The road was wide there and either he got in trouble in some fog, or looking at his phone to get the map set up. He could not have a reason like a person in oncoming traffic.
$1800. It was made much worse by the 50 ton wrecker driver dragging it forward 20 ft into a deeper part of the ditch. I wanted them to pull it backwards. I still think if they had, they would have gotten it out. The guys were kinda new and were in way over there heads. A rotator definitely made it easy. We seriously considered bringing our tms over there to recover it with but k wasn't sure I could get it to d ok what I needed with the rigging I have.I'm guessing it was over a $1000 to get pulled out? I think the rotators are around $600/hr. here from when they leave the shop. Glad it didn't roll.
you know the spot where the access road goes down to the Roza dam. It was at the top where the road is about 40' wide for making turns on and off the highway, and he just fell off the river side of it all on his own.?
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Any time a tow driver is dealing with soft ground-there is no point in over taxing the equipment.
didn't need a rotator, just two units working together. What do people think happened before
rotators cane along? I've removed loaded mixers and dumps with just two.
You made the right call. There's a thread in here about a company that tried to recover their own crane and it went so bad. It was up in BC.$1800. It was made much worse by the 50 ton wrecker driver dragging it forward 20 ft into a deeper part of the ditch. I wanted them to pull it backwards. I still think if they had, they would have gotten it out. The guys were kinda new and were in way over there heads. A rotator definitely made it easy. We seriously considered bringing our tms over there to recover it with but k wasn't sure I could get it to d ok what I needed with the rigging I have.
Old School Rule of Thumb-90% of the time the wreck comes out the way it went in. No senseIt seems kind of ridiculous to pull it forward into even softer ground
This is not where I wanted to have the crane. I had a lady come into my lane head on. I moved over about 6 to 8 inches to avoid hitting her head on and the soft shoulder pulled me into the ditch. The only thing hurt was one brake chamber. So glad I didn't end up on my side and didn't kill the lady.
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So far the first guys haven't billed me at all. I called again the other day and asked for the owner to call me. They were very embarrassed.It seems kind of ridiculous to pull it forward into even softer ground, especially since the heavy back end only needs to come back 10 or 12 feet. Might have made it even more suseptable to rolling pulling forward more and even harder to pull once the tandems were fully in the ditch. They must have had no experience at all. They should have deducted the cost of their incompetence.
Should be, amateurs.So far the first guys haven't billed me at all. I called again the other day and asked for the owner to call me. They were very embarrassed.