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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2008, 19:35:07 »
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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2008, 20:29:37 »
Ok- I hold my hands up, it didn't really tip over like that, that's how it landed when it fell out of the sky!!!!!!  :roll:
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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #32 on: October 06, 2008, 17:46:19 »
Sorry I just do not believe it [-X

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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #33 on: October 06, 2008, 18:49:00 »
was the forktruck still in the front with the load?
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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #34 on: October 06, 2008, 19:16:22 »
No, it was loaded from a bay and then shunted to a trailer park.
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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2008, 19:30:38 »
You can bloody well believe it is possible. A Cartwright curtain sider is actually closer to 6 tonnes, and the jacking points are roughly 3/5 from the back. (3/5 behind the jacks, 2/5 in front). Normally, it shouldn't be a problem, but when some muppet double (or in some cases triple) stacks heavy pallets against the headboard, well, the results are quite obvious.

As for the amount of weight on the fifth wheel, it can be as much as 18 to 19 tonnes on a 6-wheeler unit.

« Last Edit: October 06, 2008, 19:32:09 by Sider »
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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2008, 20:12:26 »
should be about 4m-ish from the nose of the trailer to the legs.



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Re: This happened at work this evening
« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2008, 21:32:45 »
Amuses me that not long ago people would have seen a photo and assumed it was true.  Now the assumption is that somebody's gone to all the time and hassle to seamlessly photoshop it, just to prove some pointless thing.  See also the Strata Florida thread.  I'm more inclined to believe that somebody's overloaded a trailer, and 2 guys have rolled their trucks, than to pursue some unnecessary conspiracy theory that people have nothing better to do than endlessly photoshop everyday photos to post them on Internet forums.  You only have to look at Photoshop Disasters to find out how easy it is for professionals to botch photoshop edits, let alone guys on 4x4 forums.
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