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Coaldust

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2B3F6B8F-B2A3-4358-A3F1-DFB0B810700E.jpeg Let’s lighten this discussion up a bit. I don’t know where the picture came from, but it does make a good safety meme.
 
mowingman

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That is my all time favorite safety movie. Back in the 90's, I did mine safety meeting all throughout the year at our various facilities. I showed that movie at every single safety meeting for 10 years. I even got requests to be sure and bring it to the meetings. It was a really good way to wake everyone up after a big lunch. Got the afternoon sessions going real quick. Nobody ever slept through that movie.
Jeff
 
skyking1

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I mentioned it before.
When I worked at Sea-Tac airport as an operator, a couple of folks in my crew started looking for something to do. If I had known I would have saved them a lot of pain.
There was a set of jet bridge axles, tires and wheels there and they thought they could take them apart for salvage.
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They proceeded to unbolt the rim halves without letting out the air first!
Luckily nobody was lined up with the air blast (too much) but it knocked them about, ringing ears, bruises.
I dunno about your estimate, but those look like some high PSI tires.
 
Compression-Ignition

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The original post in this thread, what did the operator do? I've never moved anything that heavy and am not familiar with that trailer. Did he skip a hydraulic leg or some sort of ramps, and try to just dive off the end with some little cribbing stacked up and it didn't work out the way he thought?
 
skyking1

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Other way around, I think he was climbing over the back rather than break the trailer at the front, just being in a hurry. It probably works 10 times out of 10 with the weight of the blade out in front of you, but that bare machine was just happy to roll on over, probably in either direction.
 
OzDozer

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What were those clowns trying to do with that tyre? - get the beads seated? - with a gallon of gasoline inside the tyre?? You just got to wonder about some people - and there were THREE of them there!!

It reminds me of the old saying, "If he had dynamite for brains, he wouldn't be able to blow his nose!"
 
Truck Shop

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Nige said:
We prefer "If he had dynamite for brains, he wouldn't be able to blow the wax out of his ears." :D
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Reminds me of three I knew in high school. They were out drinking in the middle of the night
near the old Milwaukee rail tunnel on Boylston Mt, in the middle of no where. Found the car
had a tire going flat, kid that owned the car couldn't get the trunk open for some reason,
so got the bright idea to get the 30-30 out and shoot the lock,--------one of the guys riding
along told me the next thing they could hear was a hissing sound.
 
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