Overload of the Day

Overloads have been going on since Noah built the ark. Here's a dandy just a few years back.

Done that on a lake with a real barge with the lift chained to the deck, that right there, nope that ain't it lol

crane operator said:

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I wonder if there tied off on that setup

I cant tell weather that is brass balls or **** for brains

Actually it looks pretty good with the straps there. I agree the plywood seems thin.

I wonder how L&I would word the catastrophe if it had happened. Lets start with {two men fell to their death plus drowned}.

NO WAY

That really would be a real dumpster fire of an accident report, worker 1 and worker 2 fell, drown, then the 3,000 pound man lift came to rest on top of them at the bottom of the pool lol

crane operator said:

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Don’t sneeze while up there……

I don't see any big problems with there set up. All the floats appear to interlock. The floats appear to be a suitable strength plastic. Suitable dimensions for appropriate footing. Just gotta get your sea legs. I'll bet that plywood is 3/4" and the only thing that I feel would be sketchy is getting the thing loaded and unloaded from raft.

Aarons81 said:

I don't see any big problems with there set up. All the floats appear to interlock. The floats appear to be a suitable strength plastic. Suitable dimensions for appropriate footing. Just gotta get your sea legs. I'll bet that plywood is 3/4" and the only thing that I feel would be sketchy is getting the thing loaded and unloaded from raft.

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Shoud have a guy on the raft with a trolling motor to do a full inspection of the roof. I swear those planes flying over when we where kids were not contrails. They were spraying stupid juice.

Truck Shop said:

Overloads have been going on since Noah built the ark. Here's a dandy just a few years back.

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Thats not overloaded. Thats just a slow ride to the scrap yard. Stay off the thruway and take back roads.

Small things that EXPAND Greatly
This is the last of the Clay Pile I have to haul, the one in front of 963 loader. I had hauled a 21t load from it and was returning, figured MAYBE four more truck loads where after 130t(FIVE Over Full loads!!) hauled off is STILL 20-30t setting there. Pit edge is just beyond the machine, the pile on other side is estimated at 26,000t, Cement additive Clay.

Then we have a local contractor!!

NO Flags, definitely Over Width, never saw Trailer License Plate, truck is licensed 54K, Does have four ratchet binders holding it to trailer.

Just out of curiosity. How far is that pit from Bowling Green ? Years back I stayed in a hotel in Louisiana, MO and somewhere not far from there I put a terex rt100 together and tore down three 773 for a txi plant.

Pretty far piece from BG
That would be close to 70 miles from the pit.

Have clay pits all across MO, in this county alone are right at thirty active and some ten being researched for initial mining. The small pit we are hauling from is typical of these where clay has been located, mine opened by a local contractor and begins the excavation. Three to four years at most later the pit is closed. Larger pits to the north as in BG were open for decades as the volume was huge. Brick plants were constructed at Vandalia, Mexico, sites around Montgomery City west to Fulton and out past Columbia due to the volumes in those localized pits.
The clay was abundant and close to surface where easily removed. St Louis had some of the earliest clay mining in MO in the 19th century when much of the old brick buildings went up.
90% is called Fire Clay, not the lawn and garden variety where is white or deep red to grey, dirt clay tends to be brown to orange and very plastic where fire clays can be hydraulic as Bentonite or pasty for make up, abrasives and Fullers Earth type materials.

Are few private property owners that retain their mineral rights as the original findings of clay or other minerals were bought up in the 1920’s to 1950’s around here.

Pretty sure this counts. Captured at the local wally world this afternoon.

I'm impressed the bumper isn't touching the ground, doesn't look like a full skid, but still gotta be like 2500lbs at least? And that thing can't be rated for more then 1000?

Last skid of redi-mix I hauled in my F350 was (60 sacks) that weighed 60 pounds each for 3,600 pounds. My truck was on the helper springs, but within capacity of truck.

The poor Nissan pictured above appears to have 6 rows with 8 - 50# sacks per row plus 6 sacks on top row. 54 sacks x 50 pounds= 2,700 pounds. Even if there are only 2 rows you can't see instead of 3, that's still 46 sacks for a total of 2,300 pounds.

The 2022 Nissan Frontier has a payload capacity of 1,610 pounds. Nissan marketing isn't helping this situation. Here's a screenshot from their website:

And I was fretting about hauling 15 bags of 50 lb concrete in my Nissan truck as being too much. You can tell it's a young stupid punk by the sticker on the back window.
Hate to see how much he overloads his trailer that he tows by looking at the hitch receiver.

Sad part is he just bought the truck back in February of this year and the truck only has around 90k miles according to records search.

Not an overload but a heavy one, a turbine shaft for one of the dams on the Columbia river.