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Runaway roller

crane operator

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who else thought "dear lord, I hope he doesn't catch that thing,--- let it go buddy". I sure didn't want to see it run over him as he tried to get in it.
 

mountainguyed67

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Yeah, no cars flattened, roller not damaged.

By the way, I was a roller operator in the Army in the eighties, nine wheel, tandem steel wheel, also trained on a vibratory, but they didn't have them in my platoon in Germany.
 

JDOFMEMI

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I was also glad to see he did not catch up. I would have hated to see video of that.

I was surprised it stayed on its feet going off the side like it did.
 

old-iron-habit

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Some days folks get real lucky. Just most of us don't remember them lessons as well as the ones that ended bad.
 

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The guy in the truck didn't seem to be in a hurry to catch it:)
 

John C.

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I can't for the life of me understand how that roller could free wheel like that? I've worked on my share of them and with all the gear reductions and the hydraulic system oil those motors would have to move I could only conclude something in the drum or axle drive had to have broken. I'm thinking the machine had something wrong when it was stopped.
 

Bls repair

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Sometime when switching between hi low gear trans can go into neutral .If left running while shifting the breaks can remain off to freewheel
 

John C.

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I suppose that is true but no one was on the roller when it took off. Do you think the operator kicked the transmission in neutral when he got off the machine?
 
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