Mack Technician Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 (edited) Got word one of our haulers lost control of his 98K Granite and about totaled it. He is your average wood butcher cowboy, heck of a guy, and doing what 20 year olds do in the woods.....only he’s closer to 60. He was diagnosing a noise coming from outside the truck while riding the dog, side saddling, to see what was dragging or wrapped into his running gear. With door open, while driving slow pace, he slipped, fell sideways out of the truck and thankfully fell away from the wheels. The Granite took off down a hill, through the stumpage and off the edge of a small cliff. You need to turn your head sideways since I can’t photoshop this pic. SEE BELOW>>>>>> Edited November 18, 2019 by Mack Technician 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Technician Posted November 16, 2019 Author Share Posted November 16, 2019 (edited) The hook dragging him up the hillside.... don’t know what it takes to pretzel an 18K steer beam, but he did it. Looks like most front hardware is being daisy chained and dragged out with the remains. SEE BELOW>>>>> Edited November 18, 2019 by Mack Technician 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainCrutch Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Atleast the driver is alright, you can replace a truck but a life is quite a bit harder to file and insurance claim and get a brand new one of... 1 1 Quote Who needs a back yard when you could have a Yard?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Technician Posted November 16, 2019 Author Share Posted November 16, 2019 Mortally wounded pride and some bruises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david wild Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 yep he wrecked that one for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeH Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 I guess he won't be trying that stunt again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Holy Shit! I guess it is good that he is not hurt but he needs a good talking to. Now we will never know what was causing the noise... Only thing missing is "Hold my beer and watch this!" 1 1 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davehummell Posted November 16, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2019 That is an amazing amount of damage on that poor truck. Years ago a driver we had in the fleet parked in a truckstop and was ordering lunch when he sees a truck and trailer rolling out of the lot and says some fool forgot to set the brakes then he realized it was our truck it rolled out of the lot and stopped in a swale ditch never hit any other trucks and he got the truck back on the road with out any damage we road him for a long time over that screw up. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Thankfully he's ok. I think we all probably take silly risk. Afterward ,you think "that was stupid" I was getting tired of holding computer sideways. Hopefully this helps . 1 1 Quote Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Technician Posted November 16, 2019 Author Share Posted November 16, 2019 17 minutes ago, 85snowdog said: Thankfully he's ok. I think we all probably take silly risk. Afterward ,you think "that was stupid" I was getting tired of holding computer sideways. Hopefully this helps . Thanks Snowdog! Way better. He wasn’t loaded, so I’d guess the frame, tandem, loader and rack possibly didn’t get tweaked. May be able to drop his work body onto a new cab/chassis truck. That 10-15ft ravine drop at the end sealed the deal. He’s a life long woodsman, no dummy, but often those guys don’t make risk adjustments to compensate for age. Watch one 56yr old guy go to Missouri Bluetail Group for stem cell reconstruction of his knee and blow it up a few months later jumping off his trailer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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