Stupid Tractor Trick

Tillaway · March 15, 2003, 01:23:29 PM

http://safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/photo73.htm

I haven't seen this before. I wonder how he got it down?

Jeff · March 15, 2003, 01:39:04 PM

Hey what a great site! Be sure to look at past photos. Hilarious. Check this one...
http://safetycenter.navy.mil/images/photo72.jpg

Tom · March 15, 2003, 01:51:11 PM

I wonder what he was doing up there? ???
that front bucket couldn't be too functional from there. :-/

Kevin_H. · March 15, 2003, 05:24:32 PM

I live about a block from a set of tracks and I have seen this done. Last time the operator climbed on top of the car and then the locmotive pulled the car along.
Inside the car was new ties. they would pull the car a hundred yards or so, then the back hoe would lift our a bundle of ties and drop them to the ground.
Kinda neat to watch.
If I remember right the train had several cars on it and as he would empty one he would drive onto the next in line.

WV_hillbilly · March 15, 2003, 07:38:07 PM

That must take a real steady hand at the controls to do that. I have seen operators put tracked excavators in precarious places but that one has to take the prize. I don't think I would have the sense to try something like that . Plus the pucker factor would be extremely painfull.

dail_h · March 15, 2003, 10:09:46 PM

Some guys really unload car that way,they unload gravel at a siding near here with a backhoe just like the one in picture.scares the starch outa me every time I see that thing up on the cars

Tom · March 15, 2003, 10:13:48 PM

Well !......... I could do that if I wanted too. :-/ But I don't want to. ;D :D :D I re-e-ally don't want to :

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ADfields · March 16, 2003, 01:06:53 AM

I could not tell you the number of backhoes I have recovered that rolled over doing that into or out of a dump truck or a flat bed trailer. It's a 3 point of contact thing and if the guy swings it just a bit to far one way or the other he will get a ride to the ER! :

The number is well in the hundreds I'm sure. If you think that guys nuts, on a dam job in Arizona I watched as 2 D-10's were hooked winch to winch and one drove off a 500 foot Cliff.

As the guy dangled 300 feet up from a winch line he wormed back and forth, up and down till he had made a flat place to start a cut bank from. I would not have done that for NOTHING :-/ not even the D-10 that stayed on the top!
Andy