Our head Law Enforcement Officer posted this pic on his Face Book page. I do not know the details or anything about this picture.
Use your own imagination. :D
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/24625/1386001_656969414336813_1001265471_n.jpg)
DanG it Poston. I thought I'd slipped through unnoticed :)
The Motor Carrier Officers would LOVE to have a talk with that guy.
-lee
Quote from: SPD748 on October 31, 2013, 08:19:19 AM
DanG it Poston. I thought I'd slipped through unnoticed :)
-lee
You might slip through......but UNNOTICED? :D :D :D :D :D
All he needs to do is cut off some of the longer ones until the front end goes back down. ;D
Quote from: NWP on October 31, 2013, 08:30:55 AM
All he needs to do is cut off some of the longer ones until the front end goes back down. ;D
... or some tractor weights on the front. Bet that rig drove real squirrely before the front end lifted. Should be set up like a tractor so he can steer with the brakes.
Reminds me of that post you U tube of a guy unloading a big excavator in south america with a flat bed truck lol.
Gonna be hard to steer !!! :o
Anyone care to guess at what that load weighs?
-lee
Gday
Lee would that be Do Not Pass Go or a Strait to Jail Mate ??? ??? ;) :D :D :D :D
here it would look like this bat_smailey bat_smailey bat_smailey ban_smiley :o :o :D :D
Regards Chris
Caption Dang It I knew I shoulda poked afew over the cab :D :D :D
Come on guys. We all know he can put a few more 'pounds' of air in the front tires and bring that baby right down. I zoomed in on the door sign and I'm pretty sure it reads,
Tail Dragger Logging
Call: 1-555-oops-I-lost-one
;D ;D ;D
-lee
I like that one :D :D :D :D I would say he has only got about 7 to 8 ton on that short wheelbase kills it ;)
Who said that those 4" straps were not strong ???
Good he didn't load a trailer like that, it would fish tail and that could be dangerous.
Wheely Bar ;)
TT if he loaded a trailer to the rear like the truck wouldn't it put upward pressure onto the drawbar resulting in down force onto the steer axle ??? ??? :P :P ??? ??? ;) :D :D
Good one,
I think Meadows Miller hit it on the head with the weight and the fact that the wheel base kills any possibility of legal weight distribution, if the wheel base was correct the weight would be no problem for a two axel rig like that. in many states if the GVWR of the vehicle is less than 26000# the operator/driver and vehicle are not regulated by the DOT >>>> until they try a stunt like this ;D ... All it would take is the correct wheel base and a responsible driver and that load might be just fine ... or as NWP stated about cutting the ends off, that would fix it.
I think its good that this guy only got as far as he did in this case and hope he learned a lesson from it.
If you read the sign on the truck door its indicates that its a logging company and although the sign is not that legible it it may have a US DOT number under the carrier i.d. at the bottom of the door ...... if this is the case the company and the drivers know the rules and if the commercial enforcement/Motor Carrier unit gets involved these guys will be answering a few questions, the DOT officers take a dim view of this stuff. By the looks of things he is traveling up hill, all he had to do was go the other way :D what was he thinking ........ sheesh.
In my past life, had two occasions to experience that "front end lift".
One coming out of a draw with a load of logs (8' cross loaded by the truck owner). Coming up to the road on a steep incline the front end just kept going up until the rear wheels crested at the road, then the front came down with a bang. Sat crosswise in the road until getting squirreled around some. :D
Second time, was told to deliver 1000 gal tank of liquid anhydrous ammonia and needed it in a hurry. The tank was bolted to a flatbed 1949 Ford truck and did hang out over the back. On the way and moving right along came to a RR track crossing the highway. The front dipped down causing the liquid to rush to the front of the tank, then the front wheels popped up out of the dip causing the liquid to rush to the back keeping the front end up in the air. Rear wheels went through the dip adding to the liquid AA sloshing quickly back and forth causing one wild ride that I managed to get slowly braked enough to keep the liquid towards the front of the tank and get slowed down with no more sloshing forward and back.
Made for a heart stopping few moments but all ended well.
Throw it in reverse real quick, pop the clutch and the front end will go down. :D
Then ease out on the clutch and go forward.
Chock behind one wheel, put it in reverse and pivot around that chock until the front end is down hill enough to come down. Then back up the hill....
Or get a half dozen 200 # guys to climb on the hood.
But I bet they made a bigger deal out of this one, and blocked off the street for the rest of the day, made him get a wrecker truck and a boom truck to lift off the logs, along with a ticket and a whole raft of other red tape before all was said and done. And there were a half dozen public employee's hanging around, each with their own vehicle to drive to the scene. (that is a little bit of a rant... :) )
Suspect it was a whack of logs that just had a few left on the ground and he was trying to save having to return for the last few logs so tried to get 'em all on one load. Sometimes just doesn't pay...
You guys make all the jokes you want. That guy gets 200,000 miles out of those front tires.
Quote from: dboyt on October 31, 2013, 08:39:23 AM
Quote from: NWP on October 31, 2013, 08:30:55 AM
All he needs to do is cut off some of the longer ones until the front end goes back down. ;D
... or some tractor weights on the front. Bet that rig drove real squirrely before the front end lifted. Should be set up like a tractor so he can steer with the brakes.
Bite your toungue son!!! We horse whip folks for talking like that around here!! What he needs is about 2000 lbs of counterweights hung on the front bumper and he will be in business!!!! Never cut your log short man!!! :snowball:
If the wood was cut there,it has been sitting for a while. Wonder how he planed on unloading it? That way did not work. He forgot to take the binders off. :D
Quote from: thecfarm on October 31, 2013, 05:50:33 PM
Wonder how he planed on unloading it?
It's a dump truck, Ray......See it? :D
It is dumping :D
It looks like dumb truck all right.
I think that once again Poston was helping someone dump the load off of their truck by lifting the front with his backhoe, they forgot to take the straps off though ;D
Quote from: barbender on October 31, 2013, 07:02:49 PM
I think that once again Poston was helping someone dump the load off of their truck by lifting the front with his backhoe, they forgot to take the straps off though ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Driver needs to eat more grits. If he was somewhere where the load should be dropped I'd say he just forgot to unstrap the load.The older members here will remember how they used to deliver lumber,back of the load on a roller, unstrap, back up fast,load shifts, front of truck skyward.You pull out easy and grab the steering wheel with a death grip and bam your unloaded.Now they have hydraulics or a moffet. Frank C.
thats a good picture , i can relate a little bit but i wont disclose how i know , you guys are pretty funny
It was that one Sweetgum log on there that did it. Them things multiply. ;D
Good eye, MM. I knew there was something that was not right about that load.
Quote from: Magicman on October 31, 2013, 09:23:18 PM
It was that one Sweetgum log on there that did it. Them things multiply. ;D
:D :D :D :D :D
Quote from: bandmiller2 on October 31, 2013, 08:28:36 PM
Driver needs to eat more grits. If he was somewhere where the load should be dropped I'd say he just forgot to unstrap the load.The older members here will remember how they used to deliver lumber,back of the load on a roller, unstrap, back up fast,load shifts, front of truck skyward.You pull out easy and grab the steering wheel with a death grip and bam your unloaded.Now they have hydraulics or a moffet. Frank C.
Not sure if it really works for logs, but maybe a way to partially debark. this is how we actually would unload damaged or non running tanks in the Army. ramps up, tank unchained, reverse to about 15 mph and hit the skids. thing would roll back and flip the ramps down with a bang, and roll right off. we called it the combat unload. Never did it with an officer around though.
Maybe the photographer just has an incredibly fast shutter speed and the driver is so good at hauling logs , he's just doing a wheelie for the fun of it on his way out to the mill 8)
He might get great life out of the front tires but the mud flaps don't last long.
He might be acting like some of those guys you see on bikes doing wheelies through town.
Quote from: customsawyer on November 01, 2013, 04:08:22 AM
He might get great life out of the front tires but the mud flaps don't last long.
He might be acting like some of those guys you see on bikes doing wheelies through town.
You're up bright and early there CS. Making sawdust today?
Jake is always making sawdust.
He is always up early, too.
The truck driver got fired. Here he is at his new job...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxSoSpNKtU
db
Keeps them from running away while inside having tea....
that's a donkey lift. he was having his shoes rotated.
This is a guy who shouldn't be running power tools. Grit your teeth and make an extra trip.
We used to have that happen now and again to our end dump drivers. They would be hauling removals, and if there was a large rock or slab of concrete occasionally they would hang up on the tailgate. Wheelie time! One fella that was quite a card, he got tipped up so high that he was just looking at the sky, he couldn't even get out so he calmly read a magazine and waited for us to come get him :D
I've had the tailgate fail to open on a ten wheeler before. :o
Quote from: barbender on November 02, 2013, 11:05:42 AM
One fella that was quite a card, he got tipped up so high that he was just looking at the sky, he couldn't even get out so he calmly read a magazine and waited for us to come get him :D
Ah, a reclining seat. Time for a nap.