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.
No, not real. The 'reach' is missing. It's the rectangular tube of steel which connects the truck's 'stinger' to the tailer and steers it. The reach is what's seen over the truck's cab when it's empty and the trailer is loaded on the truck and it's headed back to the woods.
Fun fact: When logging trucks first began this system of using log dollies the first reaches were made of Douglas Fir.
Not so fun fact: Most of the time if you break a reach it will flip the trailer over and many times will cause the truck to lay on its side. Fortunately most of the time when a reach breaks it will be in the middle of a tight turn and you're not going very fast.
I have experienced a broken compensator. It's somewhat disturbing to look in the mirror and see the reach swing out to the side and spear into the cut bank.
I had a compensator jump out of a hitch which was scary enough, but at least my safety chains kept the trailer going relatively straight. But that's tame compared to your experience where your trailer went sideways. Wow.
I was just lucky that my hitch failed on the mill road and not on the two lane highway I'd just come down at 60 mph.
The stunt is real. Dick Ziker was the stunt coordinator and stunt driver who performed the above driving stunt. The logging truck may not be set up normally when hauling logs but it most probably is set up in such a way as to perform the stunt so that the car can pass under the logs safely.
If you look carefully you can see that both the tractor and the dolly have bump boards in front of/behind the wheels to protect the car in the event the stunt goes wrong.
One of the factors the stunt driver has to deal with is the change in air resistance as he moves from full air pressure to a relatively dead air pocket behind the tractor. That would be a major throttle change to keep from smacking into the rear tires. The brake lights have been disconnected, as you can see the front end squat as he uses the brakes to control his position as he gets mostly under there.
I worked for a man who did something like this by accident, changed lanes under a semi trailer while driving an Austin Healey, in the mid 1960's I think.
So far these kind of things are never real, but maybe this one is?
ReplyDeleteNo, not real. The 'reach' is missing. It's the rectangular tube of steel which connects the truck's 'stinger' to the tailer and steers it.
DeleteThe reach is what's seen over the truck's cab when it's empty and the trailer is loaded on the truck and it's headed back to the woods.
Fun fact: When logging trucks first began this system of using log dollies the first reaches were made of Douglas Fir.
Not so fun fact: Most of the time if you break a reach it will flip the trailer over and many times will cause the truck to lay on its side. Fortunately most of the time when a reach breaks it will be in the middle of a tight turn and you're not going very fast.
I have experienced a broken compensator. It's somewhat disturbing to look in the mirror and see the reach swing out to the side and spear into the cut bank.
DeleteI had a compensator jump out of a hitch which was scary enough, but at least my safety chains kept the trailer going relatively straight. But that's tame compared to your experience where your trailer went sideways. Wow.
DeleteI was just lucky that my hitch failed on the mill road and not on the two lane highway I'd just come down at 60 mph.
It's a clip from the Griswald's Christmas vacation.
ReplyDeleteYes it is.
DeleteI would have guessed "Final Destination."
DeleteNot real ,cable connection between truck and rear bunks/ trailer
ReplyDeleteFake, no reach.
ReplyDeleteThe stunt is real. Dick Ziker was the stunt coordinator and stunt driver who performed the above driving stunt. The logging truck may not be set up normally when hauling logs but it most probably is set up in such a way as to perform the stunt so that the car can pass under the logs safely.
ReplyDeleteIf you look carefully you can see that both the tractor and the dolly have bump boards in front of/behind the wheels to protect the car in the event the stunt goes wrong.
DeleteOne of the factors the stunt driver has to deal with is the change in air resistance as he moves from full air pressure to a relatively dead air pocket behind the tractor. That would be a major throttle change to keep from smacking into the rear tires. The brake lights have been disconnected, as you can see the front end squat as he uses the brakes to control his position as he gets mostly under there.
DeleteI worked for a man who did something like this by accident, changed lanes under a semi trailer while driving an Austin Healey, in the mid 1960's I think.
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