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Overload of the Day

Willie B

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Stolen from FB.

That is a tough one to figure. Not a heavy trailer, a massive pintle (lunette ring). I saw it only once, local contractor kept buying bigger excavators, hauling them on tag along trailers behind dump trucks. One employee was scared to death there would be tragedy. There never was, but blown tires, failed bearings, broken springs, broken deck planks were frequent. One day the pintle ring broke off. Trailer & excavator in the brook. Boss blamed the driver, who had begged for a bigger rig.
 

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In that picture of the broken-off ring, it looks like a small spot caused a stress fracture. Maybe that was the cause and not an actual overload
 

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That is a tough one to figure

Its not a actual pintle ring. That's a homebuilt neck, and from what I can see, that's a threaded lifting eye. They aren't made to be loaded up in that direction, and it sheared right where the threads start. A lot of the threaded lifting eyes aren't hardened and are really easy to bend, until you get to the big lifting rings with hardened bolts like the wind farm guys use.
 

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That's starting to make sense. the trailer is not a heavy duty pintle hitch trailer either, look at the jack and stabilizer leg, maybe an arrow board? with a light duty pintle hitch to be able to tow it with construction vehicle, and hopefully not be stolen as easily.
 

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How far apart are the track frames on that dozer. In the photo it looks like the groupers are inside the box. Is that possible that both tracks could fit on the inside of the box? I'm just wondering if there might be some photoshop involved in the picture?
 

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How far apart are the track frames on that dozer. In the photo it looks like the groupers are inside the box. Is that possible that both tracks could fit on the inside of the box? I'm just wondering if there might be some photoshop involved in the picture?
I thought the same, until I saw a video of it actually driving around.
 

Willie B

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The 55 year old who owns a paving company, built his own rock quarry, asphalt plant, and a sizeable company, was once a teenager.

At about age 17, he bought a new Ford 350 dually. I saw it parked one day with a John Deere 350 dozer in the bed. A 350 weighs about 13000. With winch, the truck bed wasn't long enough. about 1/3 of the tracks were hanging out.
 

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More like lack of proper tie downsView attachment 247391

Hey, he didn't have time, he was too busy picking up dropped bales from the truck in front of him to tie them down properly. At least he was cleaning up the road....
Yes, there is a story behind that, I was riding with my uncle and we kept seeing bales of hay in the road. Being he was a waste not want not type of farmer, we started picking them up. We had better than a dozen bales on the truck when we saw another flatbed stopped with only half a load of hay on it and a driver with consternation written all over his face. We just blew right on by, uncle said: "Take your chances and pay the consequences." We drove on down the road a bit and secured his new found hay.
 

Willie B

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How far apart are the track frames on that dozer. In the photo it looks like the groupers are inside the box. Is that possible that both tracks could fit on the inside of the box? I'm just wondering if there might be some photoshop involved in the picture?
Is it a John Deere 450? Standard tracks are 58" outside to outside. Would crush the wheel wells, but fit between the sides.
 

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You didn't get the memo? Stacked hay would never go anywhere lol.

I see about 1 rancher/horse person a month on the side of the road picking up bails off the road. Not a strap in sight.
 
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