Cat 311C hits bridge ouch!!!

[Ford LT-9000]

With that being a single drop trailer the boom could have been stretched out to make it lower if there was clearance issues.

I looked at the pictures its amazing how the boom buckled on the excavator I never seen that ever happen.

I still can't figure out how the chains held without snapping or how it didn't stop the truck dead in its tracks. The guy must have been flying down the freeway.

 

[Squizzy246B]

Thank you, Countryboy, for making my guess sound all the more reasonable...


:notworthy

Mate...we are always doing our best to make you look good round here

 

[digger242j]

Mate...we are always doing our best to make you look good round here

Well, then I'm a pretty sad commentary on your performance! :Banghead



:bouncegri

 

[thejdman04]

Nah a 311 is small, no need for that. That trailer made it a long long ways away from that bridge (considering the trailer was broke). As far as he was made it maybe he was flying (literally hence why he hit the bridge).

 

[Countryboy]

Well, then I'm a pretty sad commentary on your performance! :Banghead

:nono I wouldn't consider that our fault though considering what we had to work with.

 

[digger242j]

Digger...he's talking about actually using the shovel for digging...not being hit over the head with it!

Wise old man once said to me "there is few problems in life that cannot be remedied by a good hit over the head with a shovel"

:nono I wouldn't consider that our fault though considering what we had to work with.

In light of Squizzy's second hand wisdom, yeah I think it is your fault. Maybe you're just not gripping it right? :dizzy

 

[ADMSWELDING]

looks a lot like I95 in MA

I think your right,Read the boom on the wrecker i believe it says Sturbridge and that does look like mass-hiway trucks in the photo.

 

[Truckie]

Digger I’m agreeing on what you said.
If you look in picture # 5 you will see fresh yellow paint on top of the blade. So the stick was sitting on the blade.

 

[havns3]

heres a even better one

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/hoecrash.aspthis was in kansas on i-70