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Title: This happened at work this evening
Post by: marky on October 02, 2008, 00:16:05
And I thought I'd share it with you all. It brightened up an otherwise boring shift. :lol:
http://www.mud-club.com/galleries/marky/1222899629
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Paul on October 02, 2008, 00:21:22
Too much weight up front  :lol:
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Range Rover Blues on October 02, 2008, 00:30:43
Ah :idea:, I wondered.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Sharpshooter on October 02, 2008, 06:52:38
Ah :idea:, I wondered.
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: TechnoTurkey on October 02, 2008, 08:29:05
Brilliant effort that!
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: KingWolf on October 02, 2008, 19:22:48
 :clap: :clap: :clap: Well done that man - I bet someones feeling a little embarrassed.

Mark.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: schuee on October 02, 2008, 19:31:19
Or is it a Scud Missile Launcher in disguise  :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: shrekster on October 02, 2008, 19:49:25
I wondered where my brother left his sandwich box..
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: diggerdog36 on October 02, 2008, 19:58:35
Sod being on the back of that when it went up!!!
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: davidlandy on October 02, 2008, 20:37:21
very good - howd you get the load off it ?

Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: NiceBlueWellies on October 02, 2008, 20:40:37
You pump truck the load to the back doors then lift a flt up with a flt of course, then it will reach.   :-.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: davidlandy on October 02, 2008, 21:26:51
ahhhh   stoopid me :oops:
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Banjo on October 02, 2008, 21:33:17
How many illegal immigrants does it take to....
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Gordo on October 03, 2008, 13:36:39
Well that's one way of changing a tyre...  :-k

Must take a fair weight to get it to do that though - what was the load? Depleted uranium?
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: muddyjames on October 03, 2008, 17:01:18
That is some going. Bet it came back down with a big bump when the load was taken out. What was in there?
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Silvery Thing on October 03, 2008, 17:07:27
Nice trick photo  :clap: :grin:
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: lee celtic on October 03, 2008, 19:29:39
Trainee Nurse found hiding with bucket of chicken in trailer behind KFC in huddersfield  ;)
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: waveydavey on October 03, 2008, 21:49:27
Trainee Nurse found hiding with bucket of chicken in trailer behind KFC in huddersfield  ;)

 :lol: :lol: :clap: :clap: :clap: :lol:
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Boggert on October 04, 2008, 07:34:40
Perhaps it can be called "The Biggest Hi lift Jack around"
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: mobi on October 04, 2008, 09:52:46
it doesn't take alot to get one to go up, i seen them go up with as little as 4 ton on, in my last job we had one go the other way (front up) the driver had the load on the back end.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: schuee on October 04, 2008, 12:52:04
that is how our mondeo looks when the wife gets in  :lol: :lol:

Hope your wife doesn't read this forum  ;) :D
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: marky on October 04, 2008, 15:03:46
The trailor had about 8 tonnes of liquid sugar on it.  They ended up getting a specialist recovery vehicle in to right it! All of us forklift drivers just wanted to get under it with our trucks, but management wouldn't allow it for health and safty reasons. We'd have had it done in five minutes, but it took most of the evening and a lot of £s! From what I've heard it happens quite often.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: thermidorthelobster on October 04, 2008, 15:51:24
With the pivot point quite close to the front, and the weight of the trailer chassis, plus the axles, wheels and tyres behind it, I'm surprised it would do that.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: davidlandy on October 04, 2008, 16:11:01
Amongst the normal trailers I bought I also used to buy some shorty 8m single axle fridge trailers and they used to have a tendancy to try to tip up - put a set of steady legs on the front bulkhead which the shunters used to pull down prior to loading.

Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: muddyjames on October 04, 2008, 16:40:26
it doesn't take alot to get one to go up, i seen them go up with as little as 4 ton on, in my last job we had one go the other way (front up) the driver had the load on the back end.

It makes you think though how much weight is on the rear wheels of the tractor unit when it is being dragged along! :shocked:

With the pivot point quite close to the front, and the weight of the trailer chassis, plus the axles, wheels and tyres behind it, I'm surprised it would do that.

I am too.
it doesn't take alot to get one to go up, i seen them go up with as little as 4 ton on, in my last job we had one go the other way (front up) the driver had the load on the back end.

Slightly concerned as I am going to be doing my class 1 test in November!!
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: gtomo2 on October 04, 2008, 17:31:14
That whats happens if you leave a load on the front of a tautliner they are very light the whole trailer will wight about 7.5 ton empty and any wight forward of the legs will make them tip. Had one rip the rear lights off my unit one day as it was front heavy.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Silvery Thing on October 05, 2008, 17:03:27
With the pivot point quite close to the front, and the weight of the trailer chassis, plus the axles, wheels and tyres behind it, I'm surprised it would do that.
I would lay down money to say that it could not happen as the fulcrum point is so close to the front.... nice trick photo though  :clap: :^o
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: marky on October 05, 2008, 17:15:59
How much money are you willing to gamble on that then? I'll match it!
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: muddyjames on October 05, 2008, 17:44:22
I dont think it is a trick photo because if it is the person who did it has gone to alot of effort to put a fire engine in the back ground too!
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Tommo on October 05, 2008, 19:18:24
Surely it would bend the legs at the front, they are only designed to take weight vertically.

And how can 8 ton tip it up like that when the trailer weighs 7.5 ton most of which has about 10 metres leverage!
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: carbore on October 05, 2008, 19:35:07
For sale "Special invisible high lift jack, as shown in photo"
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: marky 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:
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Silvery Thing on October 06, 2008, 17:46:19
Sorry I just do not believe it [-X
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: davidlandy on October 06, 2008, 18:49:00
was the forktruck still in the front with the load?
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: marky on October 06, 2008, 19:16:22
No, it was loaded from a bay and then shunted to a trailer park.
Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: Sider 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.

Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: davidlandy on October 06, 2008, 20:12:26
should be about 4m-ish from the nose of the trailer to the legs.



Title: Re: This happened at work this evening
Post by: thermidorthelobster 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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