crane operator
Senior Member
Okay, I wrote about this somewhere else before, but I can't for the life of me remember where. Anyways this happened just the other day again in my area, and I think its a lot more common than it used to be.
I've had one crane on fire before, electrical, and I had left it running warming up, and went to the other side of a powerhouse project to look what we were doing, and pulled up in the pickup just in time to put it out with a fire extinguisher. Electrical.
I've been in one pickup that caught on fire, but that was due to a careless smoker and boxes in the bed.
But lately it seems everywhere I drive I see blackened out pavement/melted blacktop, or big swaths of ditches burned, where trucks have just burned to the ground.
I think the regen burn cycles are way too hot, but maybe its just that the trucks are way more plastic and aluminum now, so when they get going they just get so much hotter, and burn to the ground. The older trucks were more steel (ford louiville, mack, etc) and less plastic and aluminum so they didn't burn as hot.
Am I crazy, or just turning into a old man about everything being worse than it used to (I hope not). It just seems to me that there are more and more trucks/equipment burning down?
First picture is 10 miles down the road from my shop. Second picture is a newer RT that burned down.
I've had one crane on fire before, electrical, and I had left it running warming up, and went to the other side of a powerhouse project to look what we were doing, and pulled up in the pickup just in time to put it out with a fire extinguisher. Electrical.
I've been in one pickup that caught on fire, but that was due to a careless smoker and boxes in the bed.
But lately it seems everywhere I drive I see blackened out pavement/melted blacktop, or big swaths of ditches burned, where trucks have just burned to the ground.
I think the regen burn cycles are way too hot, but maybe its just that the trucks are way more plastic and aluminum now, so when they get going they just get so much hotter, and burn to the ground. The older trucks were more steel (ford louiville, mack, etc) and less plastic and aluminum so they didn't burn as hot.
Am I crazy, or just turning into a old man about everything being worse than it used to (I hope not). It just seems to me that there are more and more trucks/equipment burning down?
First picture is 10 miles down the road from my shop. Second picture is a newer RT that burned down.