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08-17-2011, 06:46 AM
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Salt truck dangles from edge of building after driver loses control and crashes through wall | The New York City Local - Yahoo! News A salt truck was dangling three stories off the ground Wednesday after the driver lost control, crashing it through a wall in Queens.  A salt truck dangles from a building on August 17, 2011 (DelMundo/NYDN)The freak accident happened about 9:30 a.m. at a sanitation garage in Maspeth, officials said. Firefighters used a tower ladder to rescue the terrified worker. He was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital. The driver of the 56-year-old salt-spreader is in stable condition. Fire officials said they were calling in two private cranes to remove the truck.
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#3
08-17-2011, 03:28 PM
Okay... just a few questions:
1) Does that look like a 1955 model salt-spreader to anyone? I personally wouldn't know. 2) Just WHY did the worker need to fire up the ole salt-spreader in August? 3) And just how much ice would there be inside a garage? I thought it was usually on the streets.
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#4
08-17-2011, 04:16 PM
Okay... just a few questions:
1) Does that look like a 1955 model salt-spreader to anyone? I personally wouldn't know. 2) Just WHY did the worker need to fire up the ole salt-spreader in August? 3) And just how much ice would there be inside a garage? I thought it was usually on the streets.
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08-17-2011, 08:18 PM
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Okay... just a few questions:
1) Does that look like a 1955 model salt-spreader to anyone? I personally wouldn't know. 2) Just WHY did the worker need to fire up the ole salt-spreader in August? 3) And just how much ice would there be inside a garage? I thought it was usually on the streets. #2 This is NY don't ask why #3 See #2
#7
08-18-2011, 12:49 AM
I couldn't begin to tell you if that is a 56 anything. But it looks an awful lot like the 63 International we had on the ranch for a while, that had a feed-spreader on it's chassis. Right down to the Dayton rims.
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#8
08-18-2011, 04:17 AM
:lol: Dag gum! :hellno:
Very good questions, hobo. I was wondering the same things myself. How in the world did he manage to do that?! I didn't click on the link. The picture told me all I needed to know. That's one of those 1,000 word pictures. Maybe the driver was 'practicing', and he spun out? As far as your other question goes, hobo; was the salt spreader 56 years old, or the driver? That's a very good question! The salt spreader does look like it could pass as a 56 year old! When I first saw the pic, it looked like the front end of an oil drilling rig, with a fertilizer box on the frame.
#10
08-18-2011, 03:53 PM
Okay, I clicked on the link and got all my answers. Since the driver was identified in the article as being 56 years old, I doubt that the truck could coincidentally be the same "age." BTW... I said it would have to be a 55 model, not a 56. Obviously, whoever wrote the stuff accompanying the picture above, transposed a few words in that one sentence. It was the 56 year old driver of the salt-spreader who was in stable condition. (not the driver of the 56 year old spreader.)
Now, about them Frenchies.... who'd have thunk they were the first to invent the "EL"???
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