Dumptruck Flipovers!!

[Nick Drew]

And these guys wonder why us Excavator operators call them "Boneheads" !!:Banghead :Banghead

Bless them they are never the brightest bulbs in the box!!:lmao :lmao :lmao :roll :roll :roll

 

[Nick Drew]

And yet more "Brain Surgeons" in action!!!

 

[Nick Drew]

Forgot to add these two shots of a Barford SK10 ten ton forward tippig dumper which went over on our site a couple of weeks a go, the driver missed the ramp with the front left hand wheel and over she went !!!

He was a lucky guy...only requiring a clean pair of underpants!!!:lmao :lmao

 

[wrenchbender]

In the driver's defense, those trucks were designed to roll over well half of it anyway notice the nice hinge in the middle. Just remember to roll only the rear half :drinkup Cool pics Nick

 

[jimmyjack]

got to remember those trucks will roll if you look at it wrong:cool2 ,but some of those pics left me asking why did he dump the truck on an angle like that.

 

[traxs]

hahahahah rolled rock trucks!! so much fun with those! Half of the guys who run rock truck are greenhorns. Gotta start somewhere!! I did! But yeah some of them just don't have it. Rolling the cab is pretty dumb... He probably wasn't straight in the first place. One of our guys rolled a TA30 a few weeks back. We sold it now, but not because of that. It's a piece of **** in the first place. Some pics of that:

 

[Nick Drew]

Great pics Trax!!!

I love **** up pics !!!

Got any more, you know machines bogged, rolled, on fire, etc etc

I have over 900 pics off the web and taken by myself.

Regards

Nick

 

[MKTEF]

Very good pictures.

Here in Norway the big firms got the same problem that is on display here.
It costs much on repairs, and you get a production stopp, both on the ADT and the excavator to turn it around.

They had an easy solution to those problems:
Now they only employ older drivers that has a lot of hours in the ADT or in trucks. And then paying them extra to keep them on the job.(and a firm car, Hi-lux is popular)
The ADT was earlier a learningmachine for the yungsters.
Nearly all the big firms has ended that! If you see an ADT driver today,he is always 30+.

Regarding firm cars, when you by a new machine; you by a new car.
A big firm got ap 130 machines, and 120 firm cars and 10 service cars.
One car for each machine.

 

[Dozerboy]

Rolling them is part of the fun, but I have never seen one roll the cab too and how did that one just roll the cab?

 

[Nick Drew]

:lmao :lmao Hey Dozerboy,

I know and have worked with those truck drivers on the Luke Furse company,
The problem is they are all what we in the UK call "Boy Racers" they have to drive around like luanatics....Basically they just have never grown up!!!

They simply don't think about what they are doing!!

One chap that I once worked for had a good phrase about Dumptruck drivers it was...." Put a good man on a dumptruck & within a week he will be a dumbf***" :lmao :lmao :woohoo :woohoo

Never a truer word spoken!!

 

[MKTEF]

Well dozerboy, here is the recept:
If you stop on a ege and put you back wheels out in the air, swing your front, and start tipping.
Weight will move backwards with the raised dumpbody, and the front will lift from the ground. Swinged front will imediately tipp over on the side.

This is also possible if you are tipping in a slope head highest and the masses stucks in the body. Front can lift from the ground and you got trouble.
Only a slightest swing on the front will make you go over.

Another way is to drive fast down a slope, turn tight and then brake, weight will then make your front tipp over. This is a nasty one because u can turn more than on the side.

Don't try this at home guys, should only be done by professional stuntmen:woohoo

 

[Ross]

Nice pics.

I have this one to offer.


Ross

 

[MKTEF]

Hey Ross welcome to the forums:drinkup :drinkup

And a nice picture too.
I bet he got on the edge of the road and the shoulder collapsed.
Not unusual....

 

[Ross]

Thanks for the welcome. :drinkup

Dont know how he managed to tip the truck. Just lost control on a Good dry haul road. (Going to hard around site if the truth be known!)

Yeah them old Terex ADT's. When material gets stuck in the Tail-gates (were app) The Tractor end would lift and turn the cab 180 degrees. :dizzy

Pic of the truck Un-Flipping :thumbsup

Ross

 

[Nick Drew]

This one is not a flip but just a bog in!! This was on a site I was working on in Cambridge a year or so ago. Poor guy this was his first day fulltime on the trucks and indeed his first load !! A quick lesson learnt!!:lmao :lmao

 

[d4c24a]

old ones

heres some from my dads collection of photos ,these old swan necks flipped over easily

 

[d4c24a]

more

two more the D4D is my dads

 

[Nick Drew]

Great old Photos D4C,

And a Priestman Mustang 120 as a bonus!!! Was that owned by Claude Fentons ? the Decal looks like theirs???

 

[d4c24a]

claude fenton

yes nick my dad worked for them ,for about 43 years until he retired i remember going to work with him on a large sewer job and they had a 220 ( i think) they used preistmans until the end ,the last were painted a lovely green colour:throwup

 

[Nick Drew]

yes nick my dad worked for them ,for about 43 years until he retired i remember going to work with him on a large sewer job and they had a 220 ( i think) they used preistmans until the end ,the last were painted a lovely green colour:throwup

Fantastic!! Keep them old photos coming!!

I think that machine (The lovely green one!!) is one of the last series of Priestmans the 200 series possibly a 215 or 218??


Great Pics D4C I just love old work pics!!!:notworthy