Posted by Goose on June 20, 2016 at 19:23:19 from (70.198.36.219):
A month or so ago, I mentioned on this forum that farmers in my area seemed more obsessed with who had the biggest equipment, even more so than who farmed the most acres.
Within the last week, we've had two bridges damaged by farmers attempting to go over the bridge with a piece of equipment that was too big for the bridge. Not too heavy, just too big.
In one case, a farmer was pulling a large, 1000+ gallon pull behind sprayer with a big John Deere tractor. Don't know how fast he was going, but apparently he realized too late that the sprayer wouldn't fit across the bridge so he locked up the brakes on the tractor. The tractor wound up jack-knifed crossways in the middle of the bridge with the front poked partly through the side of the bridge structure. The estimate of damage to the bridge approaches $100,000.
In the other case, a farmer tried to cross a bridge pulling a planter that was too big for the bridge and got the planter jammed on the bridge. This bonehead then got a cutting torch and cut the bridge structure so he could get the planter off without damaging the planter. He compromised the integrity of the bridge in the process. No dollar estimate yet of damage to the bridge.
I'm assuming that in both cases the farmer and/or his insurance will be liable for damages to the bridges.
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