And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When repairing storm damage to a breakwater at Morro Bay, Ca, granite boulders were trucked in fron a quarry 250 miles south. A low boy trailer would carry exactly one boulder. Each boulder had the weight in tons painted on it. A boulder about the size of an early model Volkswagen Beetle weighed 40 tons. Granite is dense and durable but does not weigh much more than, say limestone. The boulder shown here looks to be metamorphic or perhaps igneous. Those would weigh about the same as any granite. I would step out of the cab until finished loading.
Or at least make sure your hard hat was on and your seat belt buckled. Seems like the operator was a bit ham handed to me (I'm not an operator). Why not get the bucket and boulder up against the other side of the box and lower it more gently? Also looks like the rear bumper on the truck is pretty loose.
This could be done a little more gently OR more roughly. Depends on a GOOD driver or an ASSHOLE driver. You can lower the bucket of the front end loader a little lower and roll as you pick up & out....OR not.
Using a loader like that to put something heavy into a truck (a bin of sugar beet samples) met my definition of "cheap thrills". The movement of the loader was very uncomfortable with that much weight raised up...
When repairing storm damage to a breakwater at Morro Bay, Ca, granite boulders were trucked in fron a quarry 250 miles south. A low boy trailer would carry exactly one boulder. Each boulder had the weight in tons painted on it. A boulder about the size of an early model Volkswagen Beetle weighed 40 tons. Granite is dense and durable but does not weigh much more than, say limestone.
ReplyDeleteThe boulder shown here looks to be metamorphic or perhaps igneous. Those would weigh about the same as any granite.
I would step out of the cab until finished loading.
Or at least make sure your hard hat was on and your seat belt buckled. Seems like the operator was a bit ham handed to me (I'm not an operator). Why not get the bucket and boulder up against the other side of the box and lower it more gently? Also looks like the rear bumper on the truck is pretty loose.
DeleteWell said. Newton's law apply even if you don't know them.
ReplyDeleteRed Neck suspension test. If I was 007 sitting in the cab, I'd have my martini ready to be shaken.
ReplyDeleteRock and Roll.
ReplyDeleteThis could be done a little more gently OR more roughly. Depends on a GOOD driver or an ASSHOLE driver. You can lower the bucket of the front end loader a little lower and roll as you pick up & out....OR not.
ReplyDeleteWe call them BFRs. You know why.
ReplyDeleteUsing a loader like that to put something heavy into a truck (a bin of sugar beet samples) met my definition of "cheap thrills". The movement of the loader was very uncomfortable with that much weight raised up...
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