Low bridge

[orville]

Anybody drive truck around Durhan North Carolina? Check your height.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c0_1351184890

 

[heavylift]

they need to resharpen the edge on the guillotine. A cleaner cut would prevent a sudden stop and less debris

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . . That's just plain wierd, surely they could put in some jangle bars and alternate route signage a quartermile before bridge . . . it's too late to have flashing lights and signage on it.

Cheers

 

[heavylift]

the flashing lights are activates by a sensor that detects an over height vehicle. I'm sure there are plenty of warning signs and an alternate route. watch the video closely, you will see the warning light start to flash

 

[d9gdon]

My sides hurt. That one RV trailer is gonna have some teed off residents with no satellite TV and no AC when they get to the RV park. My favorite though is the charter bus. Watch the second view of it closely. The freon that left that thing warmed the planet by at least a half degree alone.

I bet the city gets a cut of the video proceeds. I think the video is activated at the same time as the flashing lights.

 

[mrkw77]

wow i would set up a roof repair shop on the other side....... but what would i do with all the money?.. then i would be very wealthy and would not want to work.

 

[CM1995]

Just take a little off the top boss...

If I was a local towing company I would see if I could place a sign on the bridge.

 

[chroniekon]

We have a bridge very similar to that one here in Albany, Oregon. It's been hit numerous times as well. One delivery driver for Sears has/had the dubious honor of hitting it twice. It has lots of signage, dangling chains and flashing lights. It's a railroad trestle built for stout in 1913.

 

[tonka]

DAng only one semi driver got caught there... and he was local too...LOL

 

[CM1995]

DAng only one semi driver got caught there... and he was local too...LOL

Yeah but that bridge gave those rental trucks hell.:tong

I like the two straw blowing trucks, the second one sees the first one get chopped and still goes through.:lmao

 

[CM1995]

One delivery driver for Sears has/had the dubious honor of hitting it twice.

Theres another contestant for a Darwin Award.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . . .

I like the two straw blowing trucks, the second one sees the first one get chopped and still goes through.

CM1995 or any with time to enlighten me . . . what is the go with those "straw blowing trucks" what do they actualy do?

Cheers

 

[willie59]

A straw blower is used to place a mulch over freshly seeded soil to retain moisture and control erosion while seed takes root and grows.

http://www.finncorp.com/straw-blowers.html

 

[CM1995]

Yair . . . .

CM1995 or any with time to enlighten me . . . what is the go with those "straw blowing trucks" what do they actualy do?

Cheers

Those crews go out to seed and blow straw on recently graded sites. The straw blowers are a major labor savings, as you can imagine. Workers feed square bales into the blower where a rotating shaft with chains attached to it chop the bale up. The RPM's of the shaft and the configuration of the chute create an air current that blows the hay out the nozzle.

The straw blowers come in several sizes from small "tailgate" units to ones large enough to load a round bale in. I have a "tailgate" straw blower that I usually put on the back of a trailer, hay loaded in front and drive around while two guys feed and blow hay over a site. This is the one I have - http://kincaidequipment.com/strawblower.html

Some grading contractors perform this part of the job themselves and others sub it out. There are several erosion control subcontractors in my area that stay busy keeping sites in compliance.

Erosion control is a big ticket item in my area, from silt fencing to grassing. The State DEP (Department of Environmental Protection), in Alabama the agency is called ADEM ( Alabama Department of Environmental Management), inspect sites for proper silt fencing, inlet protection, grassing disturbed areas after so many days, etc, etc. Any construction site over 1 acre in size has to have a NPDES permit (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System). This is a Federal rule, like the Federal CDL rules, the States have to have individual programs that meet these standards but they are allowed to be stricter. When you receive the NPDES permit, the site is plugged into a data base that puts the site on an inspection schedule.

 

[willie59]

Pretty much the way it works here as well CM.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . . Gotcha fellers.

I guessed it may have been erosion control.

They may have similar setups here but I have never seen them. A commercial franchised setup called "Hydromulching" seems to be the go . . . I think it essentialy an organic hay/woodchip or whatever slurry containing grass-seed and is put on through a high pressure pump . . . they can spray it a long way.

No doubt you have the same thing over there . . . The small scale set up sounds more practical.

Cheers

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . . Gotcha fellers.

I guessed it may have been erosion control.

They may have similar setups here but I have never seen them. A commercial franchised setup called "Hydromulching" seems to be the go . . . I think it essentialy an organic hay/woodchip or whatever slurry containing grass-seed and is put on through a high pressure pump . . . they can spray it a long way.

No doubt you have the same thing over there . . . The small scale set up sounds more practical.

Cheers

 

[OCR]

Yair . . . Gotcha fellers.

I guessed it may have been erosion control.

A commercial franchised setup called "Hydromulching" seems to be the go . . . I think it essentialy an organic hay/woodchip or whatever slurry containing grass-seed and is put on through a high pressure pump . . . they can spray it a long way.

No doubt you have the same thing over there . . .
Cheers

Yup Scrub, Hydro Seeder over here.

Reseeding fire line on the Willie Fire...

 

[robin yates uk]

Anybody drive truck around Durhan North Carolina? Check your height.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c0_1351184890

so many Darwin Awards on one bridge, maybe the Guiness Book of Records should be told

 

[OCR]

Fixing some of the damage we caused...