Bruce SEKs
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Moving dirt for new building.
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retired farmer
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How do you tip a truck over on flat ground?
Bruce SEKs
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No I usually work by myself. I was in the truck though. Only damage was wrinkled canopy on tractor. Winch truck pulled the truck bed back in place and we lowered the bed.
Bruce SEKs
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wasn't quite flat. wet dirt stuck to the top and to one side. moved and over she went
Anonymous-0
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Good thing the tractor was looking out for you.
Anonymous-0
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Glad no lives were lost of hurt.
Did a northwester wind come up in a hurry?
I seen a dump truck with the cab sticking up in the air once, the driver forgot to open the tail gate before trying to dump a load of gravel.
Did a northwester wind come up in a hurry?
I seen a dump truck with the cab sticking up in the air once, the driver forgot to open the tail gate before trying to dump a load of gravel.
Anonymous-0
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Loads is heavy on one side, OR load sticks on one side OR tires blow out on one side OR ground gives out on one side, May be some other ways that I don't know about. Almost had a tractor trailer go on it's side one time, Dry load of # 2 limestone dry summer day dumping on a concrete pad!! Dang hinge pins were so badly wore out on a company truck that it got to swaying back and forth as the stones roll out of the open tailgate!! thought she was going to go over before the bed came down
Anonymous-0
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Tractor saved the truck and maybe you. I'd say it could of been a ell of a lot worst day.
Anonymous-0
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Check out the hinge pins to be sure that none are cracked or broke.
Bruce SEKs
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Thanks. Raised and lowered it a couple of times after I got it unloaded. Then walked away from it for the day.
Been there, done that.
As long as nobody was hurt it makes for a good story in the winter over a couple of pops.
My dad rolled and twisted the dump deck off the tandom Louiville twice- I got to fix it. And I rolled the 5ton chev sideways into the ditch backing down a flat road. Sometimes I swear we spend more time pulling ourselves upright...
It will be better tomorrow - be safe.
Grant
As long as nobody was hurt it makes for a good story in the winter over a couple of pops.
My dad rolled and twisted the dump deck off the tandom Louiville twice- I got to fix it. And I rolled the 5ton chev sideways into the ditch backing down a flat road. Sometimes I swear we spend more time pulling ourselves upright...
It will be better tomorrow - be safe.
Grant
showcrop
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I had a couple close ones when I had my truck. Soft dirt both times. I put it back down and got the dozer operator to fix it. Dumping wet lime that has traveled 150 miles is interesting. You put it up another six inches, wait 2 min, another six inches wait two min, keep sighting across the stack to the body to try to detect any sideways movement. That stuff doesn't like to slide.
Glad no one was hurt. Maybe a pair of tidy-whiteys. LOL
Well you found out the bad part about a twin cylinder hoist that does not have a stabilizer. I have seen them upset at the grain dump when the grain would run out of one side and not the other.
There are several companies that used to make the stabilizer linkage that you bolted on above your existing hoist. I would not use a twin cylinder hoist that did not have the stabilizer on anything but grain. They are very dangerous dumping anything that does not flow freely. You found that out today.
Well you found out the bad part about a twin cylinder hoist that does not have a stabilizer. I have seen them upset at the grain dump when the grain would run out of one side and not the other.
There are several companies that used to make the stabilizer linkage that you bolted on above your existing hoist. I would not use a twin cylinder hoist that did not have the stabilizer on anything but grain. They are very dangerous dumping anything that does not flow freely. You found that out today.
Reminds me of when I worked at a feed and farm supply dealership. As the other posters have said you can't always figure on the load just "sliding" out.....warm soybean meal can be a real bear to dump,fertilizer can really hang up as well....those 45' dumps seem to take a loooong time to come down when the wind gets blowing in a thunderstorm
Bryan inIowa
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When dad was hauling on the missile silo projects they drove old R190 IH semi"s with dump trailers. Said they tipped at least 3 a day . Got a pic round here of him and his truck on it"s side .
Owen Aaland
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In the mid 60s to mid 70s my Dad hauled sweet corn for a canning company. They averaged about one truck a year that would tip over on while dumping on the concrete slab. Usually they were trucks that had hoist cylinders on the outside of the frames. The load would stick in one side, that cylinder would go down, the other up, and the truck would lay right over on it's side.
retired farmer
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Now ya tell me. I had a dump bed for twenty years. Never even gave a thought that something like that could happen. Only hauled wheat in it.
RBnSC
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If I had a nickle every time that happened. I am the only one that I know of that rolled a flatbed dump. Dump trailers we lost a bunch of them usually from dumping on unlevel surfaces or soft on one side or loaded heavy on the front and to one side. Had an R model Mack I had just gone through the trans and put a clutch kit in it and the driver rolled it on the first load. He had it jack knifed dumping it and the dump bed crushed the passenger side of the cab and bent the frame rail. The last one we rolled my brother was standing in the cab with the truck on it's side when it was all over. that was the only one that We had that rolled trailer and truck. we learned how to fix them (twisted chassis). Lay them on there side and tie the end of the chassis to an excavator bucket and twist it back straight.
Ron
Ron
My experience is that the truck will kinda always want to favor that side from now on. Just that extreme loading or something makes them stay a little weak to that side. Have been there done that more than once. Like JD Seller says those twin cylinder hoist were made for farm truck grain beds.
Have three 38 ft end dump trailers here on the farm but all have liners and that really makes dumping easier.
Have three 38 ft end dump trailers here on the farm but all have liners and that really makes dumping easier.
and the Fuller brush company don't make a brush that will get it out either!
I drove a dump truck a few years for a paving company, we'd go to the quarry and get gravel. After they'd load us, we'd pull up to a level spot and raise the bed to level it off so the tarp would go over it easier. Doing that one day and the right rear frame bent and almost turned it over.
as far as I know, they never got the pinch marks out of that seat either.........
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