Overload of the Day

[Oxbow]

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As good of a spot as any, to share this mess.
This happened yesterday at mile 82 Seward Highway. That is Turnagain Arm in Cook Inlet. Outside Anchorage.

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Having been to Anchorage I feel it is safe say that that isn't an ice road. It's upright anyway.

 

[Coaldust]

 

[Coaldust]

Near high tide this morning.

 

[stinky64]

As good of a spot as any, to share this mess.
This happened yesterday at mile 82 Seward Highway. That is Turnagain Arm in Cook Inlet. Outside Anchorage.

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Oh ya, just hang a Louie by the beach it'll take ya right to the dock.

 

[Pony]

What's the back story, how'd it end up there?

 

[Former Wrench]

Here's a bit of history. This body of water is named Turnagain Arm. That is because when Capt. Cook was exploring, his crews could not row against the extreme current to get to the head of the bay. They tried, but always had to turn again before getting there, thus the name.

It can be a wicked place to drive at times, especially when icy. During the summer there are the crazed tourist heading for Seward and Kenai that form driving messes.

 

[Coaldust]

What's the back story, how'd it end up there?

No information released yet. He was going through a construction zone right before midnight. There was no guardrail because it had been removed. The rumor mill. The socials,.. He claims he lost steering control.

 

[Coaldust]

Turnagain is well known for its extreme tides. It has one of the most spectacular bore tides in the world, along with the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. The mud is dangerous. It appears to be hard packed, then turns to quicksand. People get stuck in the silt and drown when the tide rises. That particular area is sorta rocky, but it won’t surprise me if it gets silted in and troublesome to remove.

 

[OzDozer]

Derby, in the N.W. of Western Australia, has 12 metre (39.37 feet) tides. The bigger coastal trading ships had to have flat-bottomed hulls, so they could sit upright on the sea floor when the tide went out.

Broome, a little further South from Derby gets over 10 metres (32.8 feet) in King tides.
Cable Beach in Broome is a tourist destination with a beautiful beach that is driven on - but it regularly drowns vehicles when the drivers get caught out by the tides, and get bogged trying to reach high ground.

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[sfrs4]

The Severn Estuary in England is recorded as one of the largest tidal bores in the world at 13m it's so strong that people have surfed the bore
The Severn Estuary, which empties into the Bristol Channel, has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world – about 13 m (43 ft).[1][2] It is exceeded only by the Bay of Fundy, and possibly Ungava Bay, both in Canada

 

[Dom]

I live in NB, alongside the peticodiac river that feeds into Bay of Fundy. Bay of Fundy tides are as high as 16M (53Ft) and the peticodiac river is also tidal. Surfers ride the bore once in a while, but it's a dangerous river,lots of current.

Sounds like it'll be challenging to get that truck out! Keep us updated.

 

[OzDozer]

Pictured is the West Australian State Shipping Line ship, the 4000 ton M.V. Koolama, sitting high and dry at the wharf at low tide, at Broome, W.A. in 1940.

The Koolama was severely damaged by a Japanese aerial attack on 20th Feb., 1942, while on a trip to Wyndham port, further North, with military supplies.
Four Kawanishi Japanese aircraft dropped several 60kg bombs on her, and 3 bombs did major damage to the ship. One unexploded Japanese bomb was later found in the engine room!

She was temporarily repaired and made her way to Wyndham, and had unloaded a considerable amount of her cargo, when she was attacked again at the wharf, by 8 Japanese Zeros, in a strafing attack, early on the morning of 3rd March, 1942.

The second attack did only minimal damage, but the previous bombing damage was so severe, she rolled over and sank at the Wyndham wharf late in the afternoon of the same day.

Her upturned hull is still visible today at extreme low tide, just 30 metres out from the new Wyndham wharf.
If you want to check out the shipwreck, you only need to fend off maybe several dozen, extremely large crocodiles!

MV Koolama - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Koolama Incident - https://navyhistory.au/the-koolama-incident/

 

[CM1995]

How about this beauty I ran across yesterday. Cat 306 weighing in around 16K on a bumper pull dual tandem behind a dually with a pintle in the receiver hitch. Wanted to get a pic of the poor pintle receiver hitch but this contraption made a left under the bridge and back on I65 south.

 

[OzDozer]

As the old saying goes, "It's all good fun until someone gets hurt!". Manufacturers need to be a little proactive here, and have prominent decals adjacent to hitches stating strict towing load limits.

With a number of manufacturers, it's difficult to find gross combination ratings for the vehicle, even when you do a serious search.

Toyota here are quite good as regards prominent tow hitch info, I don't know what it's like in the U.S.

 

[Willie B]

It is my opinion that multiple manufacturers muddy the water. Your truck is made by Toyota, your platform hitch might be Reese. Ball mount might be another, the ball could be another source.

Weight rating is all about complying with manufacturer's instructions. Which manufacturer?
My platform hitch on my van is rated 5000 LBS with a ball, 10,000 LBS with load equalizing rig.
I've been using a pickup lately, its rating is much higher.
Near new Ford F350 is rated 22,000 tow behind trailer, much higher with gooseneck hitch.

 

[crane operator]

For sale, get it now....

(PS. that's a 2500 HD- with the pimped out wide wheels)

15’ Dump Trailer​

$23,000 · In stock
Listed in Carthage, IL

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Condition
Used - Good
15’ dump trailer 8-22.5 Alcoa’s 3”ball coupler I had made a dump trailer about seven years ago out of a Donahue grain trailer frame And my goal was to make a dump trailer that would dump anything I put in it and it worked great, except eventually the frame got bent from overloading it so then I went back to the drawing board and made this trailer and I’m gonna tell you what I’ll put this up against any dump trailer you can find I can haul 16 ton “off road”of course. With the semi axles, wheels and tires it pulls so nice!

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[crane operator]

A better picture of the custom rig.

 

[JaredV]

Let's see, you can legally put 34k on the tandem axles, so the pickup is the other 14,320? Can it do that?

 

[DDoug]

Let's see, you can legally put 34k on the tandem axles, so the pickup is the other 14,320? Can it do that?

With those wheels ?

 

[materthegreater]

Don't you guys know that taking a picture at an angle helps it dump anything you put in it?