Overload of the Day

[56wrench]

I guess nobody was checking the boom for cracks. I would think it originally started as a small crack and spread over time to the point of failure

 

[Acoals]

Don't worry about that crack, just keep busting up concrete . . .

 

[1693TA]

I've seen some of those broken booms in Hitchcock Scrap Yard's piles. Brand new tested to failure out at the proving grounds just outside of Peoria.

 

[DMiller]

You KNOW there had to have been Visible cracks before That Let Loose!!

 

[Nige]

something got overloaded:

That didn't happen in the course of an 8-hour shift, that's for sure........

 

[Jumbo]

something got overloaded:

There is a youtube channel done by a welder I think in Texas. About 10% of his videos are of his repair of CAT excavator booms and associated parts. No idea why, perhaps they are weak, or really get over worked or are actually repairable, no clue. But the repairs are a sizeable portion of his videos. I doubt this is repairable.

 

[Camshawn]

IC weld

 

[Truck Shop]

Here is the epitome of a BOOMER pile---a true super big nose pos, Excess at it's almost best.
An overload of wtf.
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[8V71]

Waste of a good 900

 

[Jumbo]

Here is the epitome of a BOOMER pile---a true super big nose pos, Excess at it's almost best.
An overload of wtf.
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I remember all the mini' KWs and Macks that were made years ago on pickup frames, kind of cute, acknowledged to be only a "show toy" not for any real purpose except to have fun.
To see something like this on the road or any of the other current abortions one sees, indicates there is a decidedly low testosterone level for many males. They seem to use excess money to buy things like this as testosterone replacement treatment. You can buy a lot of Viagra and drive a ratty old 1998 F250 or Chevy for all the money wasted on this.

 

[Birken Vogt]

There is a guy at the local logging outfit that drives a truck for them, he has one of those to drive to and from work. Except it has the cab, seat, and shifter like a Pete I think, or maybe it is a KW. I asked him, after driving a truck all day you want to drive one some more to go home? I guess he does.

Another logger likes to go 4 wheeling on Saturdays in his Jeep, I said to him, I guess you don't get enough bad roads going to your job site all week.

 

[Old Doug]

Here is the epitome of a BOOMER pile---a true super big nose pos, Excess at it's almost best.
An overload of wtf.
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Not my cup of tea but at least some one out there got off the couch and built something.

 

[Truck Shop]

Not my cup of tea but at least some one out there got off the couch and built something.

Yes Doug there is truth to that, it's better than using meth. If it would stop people from
using drugs there could be thousands of these. It would be ugly.

 

[Old Doug]

Yes Doug there is truth to that, it's better than using meth. If it would stop people from
using drugs there could be thousands of these. It would be ugly.

I dont know if you or how many realise just how much truth there is to what you say.

 

[Mobiltech]

Just need a 40 foot RSH hooked to it and Rollin down the interstate.

 

[Truck Shop]

Yes--a 40' RSH tanker-20' of it a holding tank for extended dumps. Excess--we just don't
have enough of excess.

 

[Truck Shop]

I dont know if you

Oh I realize it--have read three books on the subject, drugs--it's the #1 issue.

 

[Spud_Monkey]

Yes--a 40' RSH tanker-20' of it a holding tank for extended dumps. Excess--we just don't
have enough of excess.

 

[Truck Shop]

Just as Jumbo said-example of small male parts syndrome.

 

[Truck Shop]

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7324851575120317742