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Mackman
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Concordville PA
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| You think he is still driving for them lol |
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marylandkw
Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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Location: Maryland
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:48 am Post subject: |
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dle wrote: How did the tow truck get there?
Did he just back up on the rails or something to the site? It is just that easy. I did a fair amount of work building pedestrian crossings out of asphalt last year at train stations and as long as you straddle the rail and have sufficient clearance you are fine. Notice I said fine and not calm, even with the railroad telling me the tracks were shut down I was not terribly calm. I will try and dig up a picture later tonight. |
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bikerboy
Joined: 12 Aug 2005
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Location: Southern Ontario Canada
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This happened in brandon manitoba, right after the driver picked up a load of frozen beef. So its close to a slaughterhouse.
He came to a T intersection and drove straight through and up the hill, i guess he missed the stop sign somehow! |
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Evinrude
Joined: 10 May 2007
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bikerboy wrote: This happened in brandon manitoba, right after the driver picked up a load of frozen beef. So its close to a slaughterhouse.
He came to a T intersection and drove straight through and up the hill, i guess he missed the stop sign somehow!
They need to change the stops sign to reflect the Pakistan language in Canada as there will be the predominant race in Canada in the future. |
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Jumbo
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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Location: Northern Wisconsin
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't care where he or she was from but, what I want to know is did they have the power divider locked in? |
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Rawlco
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
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Location: Central Maine
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| If he only had another 20 miles per hour on he probably would have made it. :wink: |
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Nexus
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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Location: Cincinnati,OH-Sarajevo,Bosnia
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope driver driver did not get hurt... |
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Windwalker
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Holiday, FL
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| I have not seen these pics before. This has got to rank somewhere up near the top of sheer stupidity. What's next??? A sheer cliff????? |
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Windwalker
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Holiday, FL
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Snowman7 wrote: I've seen these pictures before. Not sure when or where but its been a year or two ago. I was also pretty shocked. Laughed my ass off!
Considering it was March 23, 2007... I really don't think it was two years ago. |
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Rawlco
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
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Location: Central Maine
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| Being foreign is NO excuse for being dumb, as my wife pointed out. |
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BigWheels
Joined: 26 Aug 2006
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Location: Milwaukee, WI
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bikerboy wrote: ...This happened in brandon manitoba, right after the driver picked up a load of frozen beef....
Hmm...you think the trailer was loaded?
Seems to me a loaded trailer would have bucked near the middle after climbing the hill (along with the beef sliding out the back doors).
'Course I'm assuming he had some speed going up the hill. If he had her in granny gear, well I take it all back! :lol: |
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Windwalker
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Holiday, FL
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BigWheels wrote: bikerboy wrote: ...This happened in brandon manitoba, right after the driver picked up a load of frozen beef....
Hmm...you think the trailer was loaded?
Seems to me a loaded trailer would have bucked near the middle after climbing the hill (along with the beef sliding out the back doors).
'Course I'm assuming he had some speed going up the hill. If he had her in granny gear, well I take it all back! :lol:
Look at the angle of the embankment. If he'd had it in "granny", he would have done little more than point his nose up. To get that high up with that steep an angle, you MUST take a run at it. His first clue that he was in trouble should have been when the top of the trailer hit the top of his sleeper at the very bottom. I once delivered panels for a house up a 45 degree hill. We had to have a D-9 Cat and a big BACKHOE on steel tracks to pull the trucks up the hill to the top to get them unloaded. No possible way he would have driven up there slowly. :arrow: (next...) |
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Orangetxguy
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The trailer was empty..no way does it make it up that grade with even a partial load on. |
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Windwalker
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Holiday, FL
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Orangetxguy wrote: The trailer was empty..no way does it make it up that grade with even a partial load on.
No. It could have had a load on. Someone said he hit the bottom of the grade at 50mph. But, at that speed, I'm wondering how his back is doing. The G-force with the sudden climb should have pushed his shoulders down to his pelvis. Wouldn't surprise me if his stature isn't about 6 inches shorter than before he tried that stunt. |
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DDCavi
Joined: 12 Apr 2008
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Location: Maine BABY!
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Windwalker wrote: Orangetxguy wrote: The trailer was empty..no way does it make it up that grade with even a partial load on.
No. It could have had a load on. Someone said he hit the bottom of the grade at 50mph. But, at that speed, I'm wondering how his back is doing. The G-force with the sudden climb should have pushed his shoulders down to his pelvis. Wouldn't surprise me if his stature isn't about 6 inches shorter than before he tried that stunt.
I would have to say as steep as the banking is, that if he hit it at 50 that truck would not of gone up and over. I would guess it would of done more plowing and given the truck a huge face lift. But then again who knows?! |
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