mowerman 2,049 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Backing up Con gear with the front box inta a gear pile... bob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tjc transport 1,062 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 4 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said: The driver sure was lucky in that one. A foot or two sooner, and the whole rig would probably have went straight down onto the lower level. Could have been VERY bad. On some of the others you guys posted, I sure hope nobody was seriously hurt on those. Abrupt stops and "unintentional convergences" with bridges can be hard on people as well as equipment. Do you guys know this website? http://11foot8.com/ That bridge has since been raised, i believe it was 18 inches to make it 13 foot 2 inches Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to post Share on other sites
doubleclutchinweasel 491 Posted September 28 Author Share Posted September 28 18 minutes ago, tjc transport said: That bridge has since been raised, i believe it was 18 inches to make it 13 foot 2 inches Yeah, I believe it has been raised, and none too soon. But there are still plenty of videos out there of The Old Can Opener! Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to post Share on other sites
tjc transport 1,062 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Wow, I don't know what happened there, but I am sorry for the 6 duplicate posts! Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to post Share on other sites
doubleclutchinweasel 491 Posted October 2 Author Share Posted October 2 From the Baltimore Sun some time back. Luckily, no injuries. Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to post Share on other sites
JoeH 432 Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 atmospheric-phenomenon-44.bin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post 41chevy 10,223 Posted October 4 Popular Post Share Posted October 4 (edited) Local place has a realistic train layout close to 8x16 feet. The layout mimics real scenes. Edited October 4 by 41chevy 4 7 Quote “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to post Share on other sites
doubleclutchinweasel 491 Posted October 5 Author Share Posted October 5 On 10/4/2020 at 9:44 AM, JoeH said: atmospheric-phenomenon-44.bin 31.39 kB · 2 downloads What the...? Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to post Share on other sites
doubleclutchinweasel 491 Posted October 5 Author Share Posted October 5 This one lit up out behind the plant a few years ago. What alerted me to it was 2 big "booms" when the front tires popped. Nobody hurt, thank goodness. 1 Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to post Share on other sites
JoeH 432 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 10 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said: What the...? Lowrider. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tjc transport 1,062 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 16 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said: What the...? it is swift. don't even ask!!! 😁 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to post Share on other sites
Brocky 1,175 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 1 hour ago, tjc transport said: it is swift. don't even ask!!! 😁 You mean that I have to lock the slider after moving the tandems???? Quote Brocky Link to post Share on other sites
tjc transport 1,062 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Only if you want them to stay under the trailer Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to post Share on other sites
Licensed to kill 47 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Here's one from the 60's. That is me up on top of it. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post doubleclutchinweasel 491 Posted October 6 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 6 1 hour ago, Licensed to kill said: Don't know if this would be considered a "fail" but the WS couldn't turn sharp enough to make this corner so he had to wait for another truck on the way in to pull the front end around. Of course he had to do this every trip. My Dad was driving the KW. Picture was taken in the mid 90's That reminds me of something I saw in town when I was a teenager. My buddy's dad ran an auto parts store in town. We frequently used the alley behind the store to come and go through the back door. Across the alley, there was a small textile plant. In the middle of that alley, the textile plant had a loading dock, coming off the alley in a "tee". There was a wide spot there, but nowhere near enough to back a trailer into...or even pull it out. Occasionally, we would see a "pup" trailer at that dock. But, we could never figure out how the driver got the trailer in there, as there was not enough room to swing the tractor nose within that alley. At best, we figured you could only get about 75% of the way in there. One day, we caught the driver swapping out the trailer. Was the coolest thing I had seen (to that point!). He backed the rig down the alley, and kicked the trailer into the tee as far as he could. The tractor was pretty much against the opposite wall. Then, he unhooked from it and drove around the block. He would then back down the alley from the other direction, and re-hook to the trailer...at an almost-jackknifed angle. When he pulled forward, the trailer squared up to the dock and just touched the wall. To remove it, he did the opposite. He would hook to it from the 2nd side and back up as far as he could without the trailer hitting his cab. Then he would back in from the 1st side, re-hook, and ease ahead. Have no idea how they figured that out the first time, but he made it look easy! Wish we'd had camera phones back then! 6 Quote "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Link to post Share on other sites
41chevy 10,223 Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 (edited) One member on here MADDOG13407 currently owns the first wrecker in the photo Edited October 9 by 41chevy 2 Quote “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to post Share on other sites
Swishy 1,344 Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 I started a topic of Manure Happens from pictures all over https://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/truck_Chat/5172-manure-happenz N Joy cya 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RowdyRebel 2,182 Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 On 10/6/2020 at 5:43 AM, Brocky said: You mean that I have to lock the slider after moving the tandems???? I was getting ready to leave the house one day to head to town & have dinner with the wife on her lunch break. Railroad gates started to come down and a truck made an abrupt stop...with one hell of a bang. I look up, and it's Prime pulling a Walmart trailer, and the tandems are slid ALL of the way back. I walked out to the road and told him he may want to check his lock pins on the slider before he loses the tandems. He'd come all of the way from Ohio and was almost to misery...er...Missouri when this happened. He'd heard the bang when he stopped, but didn't know what had happened. Sure enough, he'd forgot to lock 'em. 2 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to post Share on other sites
tjc transport 1,062 Posted October 11 Share Posted October 11 On 10/9/2020 at 7:05 PM, Swishy said: I started a topic of Manure Happens from pictures all over https://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/truck_Chat/5172-manure-happenz N Joy cya thanks for that Swishy. took me 2 days, but i read all 95 pages. 👍 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to post Share on other sites
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