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Delbert from Li

07-20-2005 09:03:15




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Read in this morning paper, that in Gage county, south between Lincoln and Kansas, that some farmer had rolled his open station tractor while brush hogging. One wheel when into a washout. He is alive, critical condition, airlifted into the trama hospital here in Lincoln.
On a happier note, well my son works for a excavating company. They are always moving somethng from job site to job site. Monday one of the fellow, not my son, had a backhoe loaded on a tamdem axle, dual wheeled trailer, pulling with a 5 yard dump truck. Heavy duty equipment. The trailer got into some loose gravel, and rolled 1 1/2 times. Hitch twisted round and round some way and stayed attached, dumptruck stayed upright. Hoe was still attached to trailer, 6 chains, 6 boomers. Trailer is junk for sure, cab on backhoe is crushed down, even the hood and stacks are crushed. Late model Cat. They"ll check it for broken castings, and see what insurance co says. Go from there. The good news here is nobody got hurt. Accidents can and do happen. Be safe.

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Leroy

07-21-2005 04:23:48




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
When I was using mine in tall heavy stuff or next to a ditch I would always BACK into it and that way anything would show up before the tractor hit it and being a 5' pull type at the edge of a ditch when it got the mowing done then it would still be several feet from the ditch to the tractor, independent PTO when used near ditch



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Rich Iowa

07-20-2005 18:11:47




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
If you can, look at the good side of the truck/ trailer incident. The driver had the brains to secure the backhoe to the trailer well enough that it didn"t fly off. Most people I see hauling equipment put one chain at each end, sometimes not even that. If that backhoe had come off and hurt/ killed somebody, think of the trouble they"d be in then.



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Jimmy King

07-20-2005 16:00:16




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
A friend of mine has 2 or 3 OTR trucks. Onced when he had just started in the business he was hauling some long steel beams on a flat bed. He missed a road sign so he backed up and poked the trailer axles in the ditch, he said it worked just like torsion bar and in slow motion the tractor laid over, while setting still.



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37 chief

07-20-2005 15:40:12




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
Hope the guy on the mower is going be ok. That is my biggest fear mowing a new area, and droping in a hole. I was using my crawler tractor yesterday discing at a old house sight. Ran over an abandon sewer seepage pit with the top covered over with junk. By the grace of God I straddeled the hole, and didn't fall in. Be careful out there. Stan in Calif.



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workbull guy

07-20-2005 12:03:02




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
My two cents are: Have a ROPS on your tractor and WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!!! You may live to talk about what went wrong.



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RustyFarmall

07-20-2005 11:29:05




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
Sorry to hear about the guy that was mowing brush, probably was in tall weeds and just plain didn't see that washout. This should be a lesson for all of us, be absolutey certain you know what is in those weeds before you drive into them. On the subject of the back hoe, we can learn from this one also, the guy that chained that backhoe down needs to give lessons. He obviously knew what he was doing.

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buickanddeere

07-20-2005 11:44:31




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 Re: accident in reply to RustyFarmall, 07-20-2005 11:29:05  
There seems to be tendency to leave the bus hogging job too late and let the growth become too tall. The operators also tend to mow at the max speed the tractor can power the mower at. Rather than bush hog at the speed at which the driver can see,react and safely stop. That operator may well have some old p.o.s econo box tractor with a trans driven PTO. And they were too cheap to purchase an over running clutch.

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Delbert from Lincoln

07-20-2005 11:00:02




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
JimUT
I don"t know how to answer you directly, so will do it here. The hitch didn"t bend or twist. They use the ones on the truck that look like a ring, and then the top of it hinges open. Then there is a big ring on the trailer that drops onto the one on the truck and the one on the truck locks down on it. Someway, the way it is made, the one half can turn in relation to the vehicle. I suppose it is to avoid bending the hitch if one set wheels go into a hole and twists it. What I would of liked was to have been listening in on the telephone line when that driver called his boss. There is a name for that type of hitch, most all dump trucks use them-come on guys help me out here.

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Van in AR

07-20-2005 18:03:55




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 11:00:02  
The truck hitch is a pintle hitch. The eye on the trailer is called a lunette eye. The ones that rotate are called floating or rotators.
Van



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onefarmer

07-20-2005 11:34:58




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 11:00:02  
Pintle hitch- ring on trailer fits into the hook on the truck



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Delbert from Lincoln

07-20-2005 11:57:27




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 Re: accident in reply to onefarmer, 07-20-2005 11:34:58  
One Farmer Thank you for the name. I could see the thing in my mind, but couldn"t think of a name for it. They are quite common on the heavy duty stuff.



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Jim.UT

07-20-2005 10:41:44




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 Re: accident in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 07-20-2005 09:03:15  
Regarding that dump truck accident: That must have been quite a sight in the mirror for the truck driver! I'd like to see a picture of that twisted hitch.



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Gov'nr

07-20-2005 17:16:43




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 Re: accident in reply to Jim.UT, 07-20-2005 10:41:44  
I'm on a FIre and rescue crew where I live. A couple of days ago a local was standing in front of the rear tire on his Case. The starter switch was out and he was going to use the screwdriver technique on the selonoid. He thought it was in neutral. It wasn't. It was in reverse. After laying there for about 1 hour or so, his daughter went to look for him. He was laying on the edge of the woods with a broken leg, and the tractor found its way about 100 yds into the woods. He was also lucky.

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