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[BertB.]

The first three photos are from the same contractor the owner is a man that puts the 'con' in contractor. When he first started out he had this 13 tonne Case and didn't have any transport for it so he hired out. Well one driver thought he/she knew how to load an excavator and forgot to lower the boom I guess and plowed through two steel beams on an overpass bridge and I think severely dented a third. The bridge was shut down for days seriously impeding traffic on that route for months while it was being repaired. The sunken 20 tonner happened near my parents place he had lowballed us on a small marina dredging project, the boss was planning on flooding the ice so it was thick enough to support the weight of a 16 tonne excavator and a dump truck. This numb nuts didn't flood the ice and then tried walking on it was a 21 tonne Case. Apparently it took 4 machines to recover and a diver or two. The combine is my father in laws machine he was combining Canola (Rape seed) and I had been sitting with him in the cab (seats 2) just minutes before when he started smelling smoke and before he knew it the cab filled up and he got out in the nick of time, the local fire brigade showed up with a 700 US gallon pumper and dumped everything they had on it without using foam and then called for a tanker to further snuff it out. It smoldered for several days until I brought out my 2" 3h.p. petrol pump and soaked for it an hour or more and finally killed the stink. The grader actually self-recovered on this highway job I was working on a few years ago just by pushing out with the moldboard and using the articulated steering it was pretty neat to see.

 

[Charlie]

A few years ago now. Driver error! Had a tree on the loader and the rear wheel went down a hidden pot hole. All was ok though. pulled it back onto 4 wheels and drove it home. Just needed some gaffa tape repair to the roof and she is still working to this day

 

[Monkeybusiness]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156505301698672&id=748123671
In my village. Luckily the tractor unhitched before it followed the trailer down the bank

I drove past that not long after it had happened yesterday - very lucky not to have gone down with it, that’s a fair old drop down the bank from the road!

 

[Scoff]

Had a call a few months back to see if I could help this company out
They had been carrying a 2.5 ton lump on a set of chains but instead of moving a machine out of the way decided to lift over it, so extended the boom to about 10 meters then drove over a bump in the ground which made the operator brake a bit which swung the load out a bit which did thisView attachment 1753


Managed to get it back down with my trusty manitou

Rather stupidly I put one of my 535 loadalls on its nose a few years back,it had been off the road for a few months due to a electrical fault and unbeknown to me 1st job the spool valve had stuck for extending the boom,I jumped off only to look round and see the back wheels going up in the air and the boom still extending.

My main concern was stopping the engine before it seized,I opened the door to be met with an unbelievable amount of junk from in and around the cab,especially under the seat.

I did manage to right it on my own without any damage,biggest thing was getting weight off the boom so it would retract,at least the engine was OK unlike an acquaintance who seized a week old loadall by running it with the back wheels up in the air.

 

[Mogman]

A pal of mine borrowed my hydraulic spreading forks but called me to say he “has bent a fork” so no problem I thought till I saw what he had done

 

[Grahams]

A pal of mine borrowed my hydraulic spreading forks but called me to say he “has bent a fork” so no problem I thought till I saw what he had done
That is a little more than just bent a fork. Hope he was ready with cash by way of apology.
Graham

 

[Mogman]

Sadly not borrowed my other set (he’s the owner of the scrapyard I run out off) so hopefully another set will turn up as that’s where they came from a good few years back

 

[Scoff]

Sadly not borrowed my other set (he’s the owner of the scrapyard I run out off) so hopefully another set will turn up as that’s where they came from a good few years back

You need an obscure headstock so no one can borrow them.

 

[Hydremaduck]

A pal of mine borrowed my hydraulic spreading forks but called me to say he “has bent a fork” so no problem I thought till I saw what he had done

FFS! he did them properly.
I popped a lot of welds on the carriage of my original forks working alongside Lister trying to recover the car transporter that caught fire a few years back up at Woodall services. operator error

 

[Komatsu]

sure some of you will of seen this, but sure they’ll be a few of you who haven’t...words fail me.

 

[CPS]

sure some of you will of seen this, but sure they’ll be a few of you who haven’t...words fail me.

What the f### how did they not think of that?

 

[Smiffy]

That job is wrong in every way even with the pull line attatched the pull line is across a side street its clearly not adequately tensioned there is no ground protection to stop the road being damaged and even if it went where intended it would still fall outside there cordened off work zone

 

[V8Druid]

arrived on horseback wearing stetsons, I'd guess .......VERY VERY lucky to get away with that ..... could've been such a seriously bad and sad outcome

 

[JD450A]

That Tree job is horrendous and yet whilst anyone competent could see it is clearly being pulled off by cowboys, up until that clearly no one saw any clear or present danger?

Goes to also show what bullshit you can get away with if it looks right...... If they'd two men on the road with Stop boards or even hand signals they could of felled it and quickly ringed it without anyone batting a eye lid!

 

[Scoff]

 

[Komatsu]

.......just when you think you’ve seen it all....hope the driver was ok.

 

[Furniss]

Couple of years back now but a driver for a firm I used to work for back in the u.k had a proper arse puckering moment - some bang I bet that was
Thankfully nobody was seriously hurt and train stayed on track;

 

[modelman093]

This train driver was not so lucky
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk...rain-driver-dies-in-level-crossing-smash.html

I believe that the car driver was later prosecuted.

 

[V8Druid]

that went well

 

[Bucket on wheels]