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Overload of the Day
- Thread starter Birken Vogt
- Start date
redneckracin
Senior Member
Not my picture, stolen from FB. 
colson04
Senior Member
"If it fits, it ships!"
skyking1
Senior Member
Amatuers.
Load the dump truck upside down, and it will likely be right side up after the wreck.
Load the dump truck upside down, and it will likely be right side up after the wreck.
Birken Vogt
Charter Member
That truck is not overloaded, it just has one of those suspension kits installed that seem to be popular in the East where it drops the rear.
Willie B
Senior Member
You people are so critical!
digger242j
Administrator
Now this how to haul a dump truck:
Edit to add: Look close. It's yellow...
Edit to add: Look close. It's yellow...
skyking1
Senior Member
LOL! One time I was tasked with bringing back a dump truck and equipment trailer from a job we had wrapped up. I took the GLC and brought it back on the trailer. It looked silly on there
I was cleaning up a place and this was the last thing there i didnt realize how long it was
I lifted one end raised the bed and backed under it. Thats when i realised what was what. I had to lift on the front to get the bed down. It looked lite on the front axle i drove it around in a field it drove ok. It was early sunday morning 14 miles from home. I went slow didnt fill bad at all. I was at the gravel to the farm a mile to go turned on the turn signal look in the mirror oh no there was a H P behind me. No way he would ignore me but when i turned he went on thats when i saw it was a buddy in his ex cop car.
I lifted one end raised the bed and backed under it. Thats when i realised what was what. I had to lift on the front to get the bed down. It looked lite on the front axle i drove it around in a field it drove ok. It was early sunday morning 14 miles from home. I went slow didnt fill bad at all. I was at the gravel to the farm a mile to go turned on the turn signal look in the mirror oh no there was a H P behind me. No way he would ignore me but when i turned he went on thats when i saw it was a buddy in his ex cop car.
petepilot
Senior Member
how much you betting the brakes on the trailer don`t work? not that it would make a difference
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kenh
Senior Member
I'm thinkin' there is a good chance of the trailer blowing 4 tires.
A shame it is not a hot Summer day , increase odds of tire faiure.
A shame it is not a hot Summer day , increase odds of tire faiure.
DMiller
Senior Member
how much you betting the brakes on the trailer don`t work? not that it would make a difference
How much betting there are brakes at all on that trailer!!! Also figuring the tires are five or six lug rim, car second hand 15" take off tires.
I have saw so many loads that didnt look like they could make it any were but they did i wouldnt bet one way or the other that he got the dump truck were he was going. Years ago 2 miles from me they had a auction he had some steam engines . One was bought buy a older guy from c
Colorado it weighed around 20.000 .The guy hauled it home and called when he got home to tell he had made it ok. He had a 1969 c10 1/2 Chevy with a home made trailer house trailer axles. There was a guy i got to know before he passed that moved here from arizona. He had a 1977 F350 4speed with some kind of 2 speed box. It had air brakes for trailers. He had a machine shop,a D5,a small IH TD ? and a 45" trailer full of bolts and hardware. I never got to talk to him about moving here but he told me he grossed around 40.000 on several trips. The down fall of using this f350 was its 4 speed i cleaned up his scrap and he had a pile of junk ones.It seems funny that he used the f350 because he had the money to buy a bigger truck was a very good mechanic and had worked as a truck driver.
Colorado it weighed around 20.000 .The guy hauled it home and called when he got home to tell he had made it ok. He had a 1969 c10 1/2 Chevy with a home made trailer house trailer axles. There was a guy i got to know before he passed that moved here from arizona. He had a 1977 F350 4speed with some kind of 2 speed box. It had air brakes for trailers. He had a machine shop,a D5,a small IH TD ? and a 45" trailer full of bolts and hardware. I never got to talk to him about moving here but he told me he grossed around 40.000 on several trips. The down fall of using this f350 was its 4 speed i cleaned up his scrap and he had a pile of junk ones.It seems funny that he used the f350 because he had the money to buy a bigger truck was a very good mechanic and had worked as a truck driver.
petepilot
Senior Member
some can do it with less` most cannot
crane operator
Senior Member
crane operator
Senior Member
skyking1
Senior Member
dang that crane just got eaten!!
skyking1
Senior Member
I wonder if the backhoe bucket is chained to the gooseneck? There's a ticket for each attachment not chained down, front and rear.
crane operator
Senior Member
2019 liebherr 1160. 700 hours or so on the clock. Looks like they had all the counterweight on, so there's around 250,000lbs there on 5 axles. (132,000lbs of crane with 120,000lbs of counterweight). Most guys dump off some of the weights before moving, but the book will tell you what configurations are allowed. Looks like that one was boom over rear at 30 degrees when they found a void under the pavement.
skyking1
Senior Member
I don't think the counterweight was to blame. That void was just waiting for something heavy to eat.