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Overload of the Day

OzDozer

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Well, that one sure didn't! The problem has always been that new equipment and machines get bigger faster than bridges can be upgraded.

The authorities are taking out all our wooden bridges here and replacing them with concrete. Bushfires/wildfires, surprisingly, take out more of our wooden bridges, than overloads ever do.
 
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Welder Dave

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Quite a few years ago there was an active train trestle bridge burned by arson. The fire was started by a volunteer firefighter. Not the easiest fire to put out. Those style of bridges are fabulous works of art and engineering.
 
skyking1

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I looked again for pictures of the Little Naches River bridge that was taken down by a D7 on a lowboy in 1979.
No luck.
@John C. remembers that one too.
There was a pilot truck out ahead, and supposedly a guy in a pickup camper blew him off and went for the bridge. It was kind of like this, but I think the trusses were square topped.
Truss-Bridge-US-Bridge.jpg

The lowboy driver avoided chopping the driver with the corner of the blade, and he hooked the bridge steel instead.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/8rrUU8QFsaLR6Zak9
It yanked the bridge off the footing as it collapsed that truss, and the whole works went into the almost dry river.
Luckily there was a bypass down the Old River road that was open. That road has since washed out in one spot.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/cms2sBWmuyYeengQ7

We were logging up the Little Naches and did not have to cross the river, we turned right there and up the little river. We did see the drama, and later a bailey bridge followed by that concrete bridge.
 
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Truck Shop

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BC Placer gold said:
nother over-height load yesterday in Kelowna. Stick not tucked in, boom not lowered. Yanmar 100, less than a km from dealers location.
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It's things like that above---how do these folks pass a test. Last week I'm in the shop about 9:30 am,
and the CDL examiner is giving a test. A rather load voice interrupted what I was doing-so it was time
for a look see. Steve the examiner threw his clip board papers all over the ground. The driver that was
testing had ran over about 10 cones and damn near backed into a set of flats. Steve yelled stop so loud
even people in the office came out. The next thing out of his mouth was {Your Done You Failed for the
third time---You better find another line of work because driving isn't your forte}. He was one real
pissed examiner-never seen him lose it like that.
 
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Welder Dave

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BC Placer gold said:
Another over-height load yesterday in Kelowna. Stick not tucked in, boom not lowered. Yanmar 100, less than a km from dealers location.
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At least it wasn't a bridge and the excavator doesn't look to have received much damage. I'm not sure if a mini-ex can pull the stick in towards the cab and fold the boom to be the height of the cab. I would guess they can. Somebody or some people not paying much attention to how high the machine was.
 
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