Re: Unloading a digger

Posted by the tractor vet on December 05, 2006 at 08:20:35 from (75.19.124.198):

In Reply to: Unloading a digger posted by Roy in UK on December 05, 2006 at 05:52:41:

Yep . BTDT , now ya want a real rush unload a D6 Cat off the back of and Oilfield float trailer when it is coverd in mud in a driving rain storm on the side of a hill over the rolling tailboard that is all steel . or after backing into a oilfield lease road with a lowboy and a 750 JD on the trailer and have a 5 foot steel culvet collaps on oneside , Now what do you do ya can't pull it out as the trailer frame is on the roadway and the neck of the trailer is on the drive tires and the trailer is leaning at about a 45 degree angel and here again it is pouring rain with a mud covered deck . That day was a sideways unload down into the ditch as the dozer slide sideways and came real close to ending up on it's side and now leaning at probably a 60-70degree angel with one track still on the deck , I think that was one of the worst problems i have ever come across and took a bit of seirous thinking to get out of it and my solution was somewhat clever if i may sayso as with about 15-20 people all standing there some in shock and some nobelieving what had just happened and me tryen to figure how i was going to clean my shorts out and just what to do about getting the lowboy unstuck and getting the road open again with the only means at hand setting in the bottom of this road ditch still half on the trailer . If it would have been any other dozer then the 750 Deere i do not think i could have pulled this off . I got of the dozer and went up to the tractor and released the brakes but putting just a littel air to the trailer brakes got back on the dozer lifted the blade up just a wisker as it was the only thing keeping it from going all the way over and pulled the left steering lever back to stop the left track and moved the drive control into rev. and let the right track that was still against the deck of the trailer start pushen the trailer out , tis worked like a charm and when the trailer came out of the ditch and the trailer tires hit the road it stopped. Got off the dozer and moved the trailer off the road and got back on the dozer as now it is almost wedged in the ditch did a counter rotate got parilellwith the ditch and then tipped the blade and cut me my own road up and out did this like this happened all the time and never let on that my knees were shaken , Them rig hands got a good show that day.

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