• Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page. We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy. Thank you!

Recent content by ke6gwf

  1. K

    Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

    ~10 years ago I was hauling for United out of Napa, and one day I had to haul a beavertail trailer load of scaffolding over to Vacaville Prison, and ended up being in the very center of the prison complex with a prisoner work gang to unload me. The one guard for 30-40 guys working in there was...
  2. K

    Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

    @Prenn, I am working for the wrong company! @Monster truck, Hope you didn't have to go over the scales with those first 2 loads, and that last one looks over-height... Ben~
  3. K

    Aerial shot of a steel mill with a slag pot getting dumped

    I seem to remember steel mills and slag pot carriers being discussed and pictured a while back, but my search "skills" can't come up with anything, so I am gonna stick it here! Found this in this article:http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-aerial-photos-2011-7#industrial-factory-10...
  4. K

    I swear

    Crystal Springs? I was working along 280 doing CMS signs and pullouts through that stretch not long ago. Now bouncing around between Mill Valley and Milpitas and Oakland mostly...
  5. K

    Dowsing

    I can say from personal experience and reliable sources that there is definitely something beyond what standard science recognizes, (although some of the crazies in quantum physics are starting to catch on) and that some people are more able to sense/use/control "it" than others. I usually refer...
  6. K

    I swear

    So where is that Dam jobsite? Inquiring Nor Cal minds want to know! Ben~
  7. K

    "Miracle on the Hudson" on a really loooooong trailer

    Just saw this come across the newsertubes. Hope there are no RR grade crossings on the way! (or hills, or valleys, or raised manhole covers...) It looks like it was hauled by J. Supor and Sons Trucking and Rigging There is a Facebook page for the move it seems, including a...
  8. K

    OSHA Excavation and Frost

    Man, me thinks some people are in bad need of a warm sunny day! Although it seems pretty obvious what is needed in regards to shoring, the request for actual OSHA interaction or comment on the situation is a valid one, and seems to have been totally ignored and ridiculed. I know I...
  9. K

    New Oakland/San Fransisco Bay Bridge construction pics. Lots of cranes

    I haven't been driving past this for a while as most of our projects have been in the East Bay recently, and the subscription email notification feature is still not working, so I haven't been back for a while! I hope to get some updated pictures one of these days. The main tower is almost full...
  10. K

    Sheedy unloading a Wartsila engine from an An-124 at SFO for the Cannibal Splendor

    Ran across this from the gCaptian maritime blog (subscribe to it!), which included pictures from someone with way too much access for the safety of the flying public... ;) Story 1 http://gcaptain.com/mega-cruise-ship-mega-airplane?20925 Story 2...
  11. K

    New Oakland/San Fransisco Bay Bridge construction pics. Lots of cranes

    Well, if we quit shipping all our recycled steel over there, maybe they would have to make them here! I am seeing it more and more now where big projects like this are mostly Chinese when you get down to it. And I'll bet you that the Left Coast Lifter barge was made of Chinese steel assembled...
  12. K

    Loading challenges

    This story is hardly worth telling if it weren't for the audience involved. (and isn't worth telling after reading Monster Truck's stories! :) Names have been changed to protect the guilty... I used to work for Untied Runtals, and at the time the manager was lacking in couple of key...
  13. K

    Are my flags correct for wide a load?

    Maybe because "Oversized Load" will work on almost any type of load, but "Wide Load" only works on, well, wide loads? :)
  14. K

    tag trailer wheels

    They look like forklift tires to me, and I would guess they were having problems with the trailer dragging or hanging up on humps (maybe railroad crossings), and they work like the wheels on motorhome bumpers.
  15. K

    True capacity on a small dump truck??

    As others have said, you got 4 things to consider: 1. The nameplate rating by the manufacturer. This is basic! If the person that built it says it can only carry a certain amount of weight and you exceed that, you are overloaded. Now, there are many trucks that are underrated so car...
Top