Overload of the Day

[skyking1]

Add in a crane to load and unload and you have a slick machine.

Oil field guy would do it with a gin pole setup and a picking sling.

 

[cfherrman]

a bit of a travois load.

Gin poles date back to the Romans, so who was first?

 

[skyking1]

Gin poles date back to the Romans, so who was first?

It would be difficult to determine. The first peoples did not have a written history.
The archaeolgical record of people in North America goes back 12000~14000 years.
The first travois were pulled by dogs before the arrival of the horse in the 16th century.
There is archaeological evidence of the use of travois in other parts of the world.
Functionally there is no similarity, but that quad laid up on the gin poles looks like a travois load.

 

[digger doug]

Those are gin poles and a winch, not a rack

Cool link

To Quote Steve Martin "well excuse me"
Your pix was not up to the standards that are required for scrutinizing your facts.

 

[cfherrman]

It would be difficult to determine. The first peoples did not have a written history.
The archaeolgical record of people in North America goes back 12000~14000 years.
The first travois were pulled by dogs before the arrival of the horse in the 16th century.
There is archaeological evidence of the use of travois in other parts of the world.
Functionally there is no similarity, but that quad laid up on the gin poles looks like a travois load.

The Romans just used them for lifting and not skid loading, would be really funny if they did though

I forgot to weigh it on the way home, I'll stop by a scale and see. Quad weighs 1700# so it's going be close to a overload.

 

[Monkeywithawrench]

I'd love to know how they got it off the trailer..........or if they had even thought that far ahead.

 

[JaredV]

It's right about 13'6" if that guy is 5 feet tall.

 

[Truck Shop]

It's right about 13'6" if that guy is 5 feet tall.

That's every bit of 14'. That guy is 6'. At 70 mph it should have had a nice sway.

 

[skyking1]

That's every bit of 14'. That guy is 6'. At 70 mph it should have had a nice sway.

That load might be a good one to follow with a dash cam (Way way back)

 

[Monkeywithawrench]

That load might be a good one to follow with a dash cam (Way way back)

I thought about that after I left. "Man.......I should have hung out and followed them!!"LOL

 

[cfherrman]

It's ok they have 1 strap

 

[stinky64]

Probably only made it to 1st. turn on uneven pavement out of parking lot.

 

[Pony]

What height are you guys allowed over there?
We get 4.3m generally, but allowed to go to 4.6m with livestock.

 

[materthegreater]

What height are you guys allowed over there?
We get 4.3m generally, but allowed to go to 4.6m with livestock.

For transporting giraffes?

 

[DMiller]

Update om Louisville event. 10 hours three Rotators, recovered intact!

 

[Pony]

Generally 2 decks cattle or 4 decks sheep.

 

[Truck Shop]

Generally 2 decks cattle or 4 decks sheep.

13'6"---with a fifthwheel at 48" from ground.

 

[Monkeywithawrench]

Update om Louisville event. 10 hours three Rotators, recovered intact!

I figure the guy UNDER the truck drew the short straw. Or the NEW guy........
"You'll be fine......."

 

[Truck Shop]

And here we have the constant endeavor to see who can build the biggest front end loader.
And keep raising the ante with a name & number that says it's a gargantuan---prophylactic.
*

 

[DMiller]

Capital Quarries has IIRC Twelve Quarries around the state, TRUCK Six Loaders and 2 Screening Crusher plants between them as needed. Said Plants only sit and operate around a month to six weeks then move again. The Costs JUST to move these mechanisms has got to be Cost Prohibitive but no one is looking.