Dunno about buff out, but I'd give it a go with a 'puff out' if you have a compressor handy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
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Dunno about buff out, but I'd give it a go with a 'puff out' if you have a compressor handy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
you can't park there goofey!
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helping a mate take out a few of his neighbours trees yesterday .using the rodeo as a dozer -not a good idea as ive cooked the clutch .needless to say my son (mechanic in cheif)was not impressed has confined me to foot travel tillhim and his mate can replace it next w/e.between that and a couple of non cooperative chainsaws ..well!however a chainsaw maintainence in the man cave today should go some way to reaching an agreement on exactly who does what!
overall however and despite me arsing up(do a wonderful dead coffee table imitation me) my newly repaired back came through the job OK so thats a bonus!!
Another clown took out the districts power.
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My son & I driving up the river to make sure wifeys uncle got out ok on his quad...of course he did, my son was driving but he claims I was. Which I wasn't...bit tricky to see the soft bits in the middle of the night. Thankfully this machine was close by.
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The perfect 4wd accessory, by Hitachi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Twodiffs
And luckily if you couldn't pull it out you could have just mulched it there :)
[QUOTE=Twodiffs;1633933]My son & I driving up the river to make sure wifeys uncle got out ok on his quad...of course he did, my son was driving but he claims I was. Which I wasn't...bit tricky to see the soft bits in the middle of the night. Thankfully this machine was close by.
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Scary...
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just seen that video, man some very lucky people
Link for anyone who wants to watch it.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/waikato-n...LTDNFBML65LHQ/
Anyone else get final destination flashbacks :O_O:
Some very lucky people there. A sideswipe involving two lots of 50 odd tonne goes pearshaped pretty fricken quickly..
Jebus that is some serious shit. Pure luck an innocent person wasn't killed. I assume unlike ordinary trailers they don't have any safety chains on the trailer hitch ( I realise it could be 30ish tons but there must be chains with breaking strains above that you could use ? ).
If negligence is involved they need to be delt to severely.
Probably a failed king pin or towing eye, the rest rolls through after that...
I thought he was clipped by the other logging truck
Yes, that's what the video shows. I suspect the tow hitch failed AFTER the sideswipe overloaded it. The sideswipe also broke the tie down chains, hence the load goes spewing everywhere.
Id open the video large, the out of control trailer swipes the rear trailer of the Rotorua bound truck after the hitch has let go.
Look at the truck positions, Both are running the fog line as most do through those corners.
The Roto bound truck a second later and he would have got it through the cab, a second faster and the dash cam car would have got the full brunt
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Thanks, just did that and yes, its detached just before it sideswipes the other rig. Like you say, half a second either way and fatalities handed out all round.
Holy crap, you couldn't predict that happening could you - something dropping in precisely the right place and hitting for long enough to active the electronic release. What are the chances of it happening for one, and the chances of after it happening the accident not resulting in fatal crash(es)? Wow, the luck underpinning all of that was fully used up.
It's not the first time.....a good mate drives loggers for a big hb operation really new flash gear, he said when we were talking about that accident the same day that his trailer had come unhitched at the port for that exact thing happening crazy aQuote:
Originally Posted by No.3
Seems pretty dumb that it's not interlocked somehow. One switch and your trailers off trying to kill other drivers.
Yeah, wow... Although there was something similar with a Jap truck handbrake a while back - I recall a thing coming out telling us to fit something to prevent it being knocked off when you released your seatbelt.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
On boats we used to fit a cover over critical switches, stop them being flipped unintended. Rail was the same.
Are you talking about carden shaft hand brakes no3??
That was one, but there was another where the park brake lever was a simple flip type and it was right by the seat belt catch alongside the driver's seat. We were peddling one with this, and it was an arse of a thing because if you weren't careful the park brake was released with the seatbelt. A notice came out about it, and eventually the lever had to be replaced with the one that has the lifting collar interlock (2 movement release).Quote:
Originally Posted by tac a1
Heres another survivor that went off our road.
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Long way to the bottom.
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That could have been so much worse.
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to drive: How hard is it to follow the road! (from a couple of years ago)
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Yeh that is a real fuck up that one. The cab should have been over by where the bully blade is when he started turning that corner.Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500
The drivers boss said i saved him about 50k in damages and repairs. It was chokka full of concrete and was inching over a few mm a minute till i chained the dozer to it.
Only 50K? Would have thought that was well on the light side by the time they got recovery gear out and the uneven weight in the bowl needing to be sorted to get the thing home...
in the truckys defense it does look like the road has an awfull camberQuote:
Originally Posted by XR500
Nah, he started looking at the builders and where they were signalling they wanted the truck, and his mind just drew a straight line without bothering to look at the terrain in front of him.....
By the time the crane turned up and winched him out the concrete was starting to go stiff. We have a fire fighting trailer with 2000L of water onboard so we pumped that in and drove him to a small gully on the farm where he poured it out. Then a few hours later I went down with the bully and pushed it all up so it broke into small pieces. We then FEL it into the cattle yards as hard pack for the high wear areas. Bonus!
how many of us have done that taking the rake out thru a narrow old fashined race I looked ahead to find the paddock and took out the cockys angle post - put the rake steering out of alignment in the process
On my way in to my pistol club this morning I saw this fellah in a bit of strife.
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My camera angle doesn’t do it justice but his back end was hanging over a drop to the creek.
A ranger doing ranger things… much like a mustang doing mustang things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
Wasn't a pilot by any chance was he?
I don’t know but Inhope not as it doesn’t bode well for his ability to set a plane down on the tarmac. Someone turned up, looked at it and then drove him away (probably to get phone coverage to call a towing company).Quote:
Originally Posted by No.3
Never been offroad, raced, rallied or rolled.
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Just ? on the personalised plate, NZ4201 was an Orion...Quote:
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