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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?