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Sunday, May 3, 2020
A lot of good equipment sent to scrap in this mishap.
You got to know your load. Happens pretty fast but it looks to me that there is room for that stick to be rolled up under the boom. It looks like the whole thing is sitting higher than the cab.
The definition of a bad day: My son works for the power co. A tree near the river was dislodge by rising water and the huge ice sheet it was encased in kept it upright. It went downstream and encountered the hi line that feeds the entire North Maine grid, knocking out power to 100k people. He brought a log skidder down on a low bed and went back for an excavator. He and another lineman fixed the problem and he took the skidder back home and by that time he was over on his hours. The guy they sent down to bring the excavator back left the boom up and totaled the $100K excavator and did $90k worth of damage to the interstate bridge he hit. Traffic was detoured for two months until the bridge was fixed.
You got to know your load. Happens pretty fast but it looks to me that there is room for that stick to be rolled up under the boom. It looks like the whole thing is sitting higher than the cab.
ReplyDeleteHe was going mighty fast for a tractor especially with a teeter-totter trailer design like that one.
ReplyDeleteThat is a Fendt, their tractors have a top speed of just under 40mph. I'd say he just sent about $300,000 worth of equipment rolling into that ditch.
DeleteLeigh
Whitehall, NY
The definition of a bad day:
ReplyDeleteMy son works for the power co.
A tree near the river was dislodge by rising water and the huge ice sheet it was encased in kept it upright.
It went downstream and encountered the hi line that feeds the entire North Maine grid, knocking out power to 100k people.
He brought a log skidder down on a low bed and went back for an excavator.
He and another lineman fixed the problem and he took the skidder back home and by that time he was over on his hours.
The guy they sent down to bring the excavator back left the boom up and totaled the $100K excavator and did $90k worth of damage to the interstate bridge he hit.
Traffic was detoured for two months until the bridge was fixed.