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Don't dump when you're not level..

xcavator120

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Instead of doing what we were suppose to be doing, we got to clean up this mess. The truck was not sitting level, so when the bed went up, it got tired and laid down. Luckily the driver was not injured, just real sore. One of the supers and the grader operator witnessed it, and said the tractor was "violently" laid over, slammed it onto it's left side.
 

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stock

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We have moved on and now were lost....
Gee! that was unfair three against one, no wonder it fainted and fell over; you guys should be ashamed of yourselves picking on a poor trucker like that. lol
 

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He was hauling millings, nothing sticking to the box. The left side was about 1 ft lower than the right when he was dumping. Once the box was up, it just followed gravity, right to the ground.
 

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quess it proves there is more then 1 way to dump a truck.

Glad the driver didn't get hurt.
 

xcavator120

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Yep it does. Maybe someone should have told the driver he was using an end dump, not a side dump.

Of course this triggered a safety meeting, with this truck as the backdrop. I think most companies hold them at the start of the day, maybe once a week. We wait for things like this. 3 guesses as to the topic of the safety meeting...
 

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i stand behind my rants against drivers.
 

heavylift

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end dumps ....don't know why they are used on dirt jobs... seems like 2 or 3 times a year one lays over..



We had one hit a high voltage line... fried tires , bearing wheels...etc.. But the driver said he was 20' away....

Westar guys LOL.... They said he had to hit the wire to make it arc...
 

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end dumps ....don't know why they are used on dirt jobs... seems like 2 or 3 times a year one lays over..



We had one hit a high voltage line... fried tires , bearing wheels...etc.. But the driver said he was 20' away....

Westar guys LOL.... They said he had to hit the wire to make it arc...

I think both are wrong. There is a length a high voltage will arc but it certainly is not 20 feet. What was the ground connection from truck to ground, the load he was dumping? If not it had to arc from something on the truck to the ground.
 

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Well..... I'm not going to test either theory....

Westar showed up with 3 line trucks, then about a 5 or 6 pickups showed up..... then the big bosses and so called safety guy.
 

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Thanks stock. You can be sure the zones are very safe distances. No idea right off the highest voltage used in the US for transmission lines but it would be interesting to find out what they are where heavylift was talking about.

Hey heavylift, you probably don't want the task of calling and asking but if you ever talk with the lineman there they should be able to tell you that distance off the top of their head.
 

heavylift

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10 feet is the minimum for 50,000 volts, then the table goes up..
they also have a transport chart for when you drive under lines 4 feet for 50,000 volts...
1million volts = 42' or 20' for driving under.

As for the voltage the truck " touched " I don't know...
next time I see one I ask about the line voltage...
Personally I would be more inclined to believe the Westar guys than the truck driver....
 

Arabhacks

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End dump.

Hello.

An end dump can be very safe, I have operated one on and off for 30+ years and have only been through half a dozen mudflaps. :(
But construction is all about being careful, failure to be careful can be deadly.
In this case the driver walked away shaken but not stirred. :D
EVERYONE needs a little wakeup call every now and then, if not the safety meeting, something like this.
Good to hear no one got hurt.
 
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