Overload of the Day

terex herder said:

I don't think seaplanes tolerate overloads nearly as well as trucks.

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A couple of hunters chartered a Beaver on floats to go out to this remote lake in the thawed out North, hunting moose. The pilot promised he'd be back in two weeks, and he was back like clockwork.
Hunting was good, and their gear and a huge bunch of moose was on the dock waiting. The pilot took one look and said " no way can I haul you and that out of here on one trip"
The guy did it last year, the customer said. They harassed and cajoled and the guy relented. They loaded in all up and now the pilot faced a glass calm little lake, no wind, and rising terrain all around. He circled around the lake and got it chopped up, made some little waves, brought it around as hard as he dared ant took off in the best direction.
First one float, then the other came out of the water and he staggered along in ground effect. he circled the little bowl from hell till he thought he could get out of it. He had to do something the cylinder head and oil temps were pegging with all the abuse he dealt the old radial.
The plane roared along just above the little treetops, and for a while he though he made it. Then the slightest of downdrafts drove him down into the trees.
The old beaver kept it's promise and structural integrity as they mushed into the trees and came to rest mostly in good shape.
He looks back to check his passengers and they are in a hot discussion!?!
One says " no way, we did not." the other says "we did too" and they keep up, making a bet on the matter. One of them climbs up one of the trees and points off in the distance.
"We DID get farther than last year, pay up!"

I've ridden with people like that. BC loggers wanting to get out of camp no matter what. Had to go back to the dock and throw the cook out one day because we couldn't get off the water.Also flown into camp with tools and parts and had a different pilot refuse to fly exactly the same stuff out when the job was finished because it was too heavy. One of the reasons I retired early. You can only put your name in the hat so often before you lose the draw. d.d.

This was the last thing left at a farm i was cleaning up. I took my skid steer over there to load a small load that was in the way of moving this out to cut it up. I was going to haul a torch back there in the AM to cut it up. Its close to 100 today so on the way to dump the stuff i dreamed this up. About 4 mile trip it worked.

We just went around a really crap load on the way across the mountains he pulled over after holding up traffic for several miles. It was a gyppo log truck flat towing an old truck mounted shovel with a tow bar. Do you think there were any brakes hooked up? Of course not! He did have a big bunch of half inch chain wrapped around everything and hooked up as a safety chain.
He had just come down the Orting cemetery Hill. That's no grade to scoff at.

The wife and I were on the bike and picked up that junker at the Electron cutoff. We were behind all the way to South Prairie where we pulled off because of the smell of burning brakes. I think the right rear cammed over and stuck because the stench and the smoke was sickening. You could smell the rubber and see the blue smoke when he went around corners as well. We waited about fifteen minutes and then took the Bonney Lake road just east of South Prairie. Didn't want to see a mess pulling up the hill out of South Prairie toward Buckley.

Isn't that Kapowsin? That's good I'm glad to hear you have your share of clap-trap junkers as well.

The wife and I came from Kapowsin, the junker came down cemetery hill to Orting and apparently and turned to go to South Prairie. They apparently pulled off the road just past the Kapowsin cutoff and got on just as we turned toward South Prairie. Long load, lots of traffic and lots of curves prevented us from just passing. Figured it was enough when we got to South Prairie.

John it sure is a small world! We were about five cars behind him when he pulled over there in front of Baxter manufacturing just past the electron T. You must have been only minutes behind us

I was thinking that when you mentioned a log truck was pulling a shovel. I wonder where he ended up?

I'm guessing Buckley something.

wife was driving and a got a partial of the tow. series 185-C ?

Seeing the back of the shovel, it reminds me of a shovel that is/was parked at that place just off the 162 Mundy Loss Road intersection right by the Spikton bridge.

Saw this on F B marketplace trailer for sale i take it there could be a brake problem.

ya and maybe a brown underwear problem

Komatsu D31-A ... Operating weight = 21,605 pounds. The truck needs a tire alignment along with a driver side door.

That slide a long ways side ways. LOL
Cheers

Looks like the one blue wire came undone.

Saw this on one of the local community pages and thought it would fit in here nicely.

May not be overloaded in the typical sense, but still an odd sight

Dozer above says "who's your daddy now?"

Old Doug said:

Saw this on F B marketplace trailer for sale i take it there could be a brake problem.

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15 minutes before taking off on that trip the driver slapped the hood and said - "This baby's gotta a 5.9 with none of that emissions BS in those new trucks - it'll pull ANYTHING!".