redneckracin
Senior Member
So I have a dumb question. What are those pieces of rod for that are welded to the front of that KW bumper?
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Overload of the Day
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DB2
Senior Member
And is that solid shaft through the grill guard? Weight not a worry if thats the case. 888 the unit number ?
DB2
Senior Member
Couple I have found on the interweb
crane operator
Senior Member
Ahh- there's no dumb questions here!
I'm guessing its for shoving the front end around with a trackloader/ dozer. If you need to push the truck back into a spot to get something, and need to move the front end as you're going, it would give the blade or bucket something to catch on, so you could push it left or right. Just to keep the blade from skinning down the front of the pipe bumper.
Its a oilfield truck, and they were usually built for bad conditions, and the oilfield can be rough on things. I can easily see them trying to shove it back in a mudhole to pick up a skid, and then they would be pushing on the front. The oklahoma clay can get nasty.
crane operator
Senior Member
I'm guessing its heavy wall oilfield drill pipe with caps on it, (just because there's usually a lot of that stuff laying around out there) but I honestly don't know. It could be shaft.
I didn't build it, and I've never removed it.
The 888 is actually B & B which was the name of the oilfield company I bought it from.
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colson04
Senior Member
Saw this one today
Truck Shop
Senior Member
on a hot sh!t lexus no less.
Pony
Senior Member
Hey come on now, that looks like a study desk, they're just trying to get the tools together to edjamacate themselves so that next time they'll know better.
DMiller
Senior Member
On way to deliver 20t sand and get to Interstate 70, ALL Stopped, for this, they managed to get straightened out and then just Stopped, across the highway and blocking ALL traffic. I ended up swinging to shoulder and going around dead traffic. Truck is far Left, Flag at end of blade near to far Right.
Labparamour
Senior Member
Green energy...saving the planet by stalling traffic
Aarons81
Well-Known Member
Aarons81
Well-Known Member
We had to move/safe this gazebo for an addition. The gazebo was a pre fabricated kit and consisted of 4 equal parts. That's the reason for all the extra support under it. It stayed on site so no action shots of it scattered across the highway. Told people I was building our parade float.
Willie B
Senior Member
Probably went to MacDonald's.
Drive throughs are Hell with a truck!
John C.
Senior Member
Went to pick up oil sample bottles today. Got behind this guy at a stop light. I think the frame was sitting on the rubber cushions. It's a half ton pickup and a lot of plywood.
JLarson
Senior Member
Went to get lunch today and while turning out of the place a guy turned in pulling a trailer with an almost full pallet of 80# sacks of crete on deck with no straps of any kind lol.
Willie B
Senior Member
It's plenty heavy enough, wind won't move it any.
DMiller
Senior Member
Years ago was following a MODOT Maintenance truck, saw a steel bucket of Something bouncing LOOSE but upright and edging toward rear platform so I moved to the furthest away lane. Moments later hit a expansion buckle and it launched, saw it rise then leave that truck, hit the roadway and the mass of 'Guardrail Bolts' in it exploded across I-70, several cars had blowouts I could see in mirror, truck kept on rolling as did I then turned off for their yard next exit. Later on News was report of "Unidentified Truck" dropped box of scrap metal and destroyed Dozens of tires and damaged dozens of cars/trucks. I called the news to correct them was blown off.
Jumbo
Senior Member
About 1976, we (Weyerhaeuser) were hauling logs up to Everett. In those days first load out was about 7 AM. I was about a dozen loads back in the chain. When we turned north from I 90 to I 405 all we saw were trucks and cars scattered all over the road. most on the shoulders but many in the right lanes. Apparently right in from of Weyerhaeuser's first truck that day a flatbed spilled an unsecured complete pallet of 1-1/2 inch roofing nails. No communications in those days, so nobody knew to avoid the mess. I had 3 flats, another truck had 6 most had between 2 and 3 flats. That was the Weyerhaeuser trucks only, there were hundreds of other cars, freight trucks,gravel trucks and WSP cars. As I was sitting there waiting for the tire shop to come out, WSDOT showed up with a truck and immediately had 2 flats. Later during the wait, they brought in a sweeper truck, you guessed it, flat tires all the way around. I 405 was tied up for a good 8 hours while they tried to clear cars and clean it up. There were a rash of flats there for another week or more as the nails kept popping up.
skyking1
Senior Member
That same thing happened on the Selah gap to Yakima. About the same year too!
I was working at the Arco and Tire King in Selah, and the tires started rolling in. I probably fixed 25 tires with roofing nails in them, before noon on a Saturday.
I was working at the Arco and Tire King in Selah, and the tires started rolling in. I probably fixed 25 tires with roofing nails in them, before noon on a Saturday.