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Have you ever had the wrong tool but needed to make it work? No this is not me, but I thought I would share. Very creative way to clean out a boxcar.
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I'm sorry, WHAT?????¿ That is straight up crazy.
Wow! That takes some really big balls to do that. Lol.
What's he do now that he's balanced on the edge??? :&
All balls, NO brains ! The damage to the equipment would not be worth the effort if some thing went wrong. If he or she is willing to do some thing like that, I'm sure they are not wearing a seat belt either. Some people just should not have kids ! lol
Balls n brains-the operator is talented!!
Thanks Idaho Scrapper, I did not know the rest of the story. Just saw the pictures and decided to post them. That guy has more talent than I ever hope to have.
I'm sure he's a contractor--otherwise the railway safety Nazi's would be having rectal hemorrhages. Don't forget, contractors don't bleed!!
Jon.
Oh, I get it. He gets all the way up and uses the backhoe bucket to unload. Notice that the one in the video is a different machine than the one in the pictures and on a different train. It has a grapple. Apparently, this is a more common way of unloading trains than it seems. Maybe it's safe, but it sure looks dangerous. I do see stabilizer plates outside the front bucket. It has to be scary to load and unload though. I have a hard enough time loading excavators or dozers on a lowboy sometimes.
It's not the same guy. I just remembered having seen it before and posted. Here's another guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patriot76
Cat 319D LN climbing onto rail car - YouTube
Based on the two video's, it is assumed this is a method of transporting heavy equipment instead of trucking it across the country. Regardless, it is safe to say, this was not their first rodeo.
Last summer they had a couple of those on top of the car and were dropping new timbers as the train creeped along...pretty cool, I had to stop and watch for a while.
On my slow connection I can't view the video, but looking at the pictures it looks like there is a risk of something going wrong on the way up. If that thing slipped somehow and flipped, I'd think he could be in a real bind, plus he doesn't even have his door shut, that's being rather blatant in my mind. I'm also going to guess he doesn't even have the seat belt on.
Something(or someone) going through the window or door would be one of the first things that happened, and the machine usually comes out on top.
While driving through the Winding Stair Mountains in East Central OK years ago, I came upon an overturned pickup truck with one person laying in middle the two lane blacktop with no road shoulder. This person was a young lady and people were standing around pleading with her to stay awake. There was a trail of blood where she had attempted to "get away". I also learned there was a baby and another young lady laying on the other side, the baby was already dead. All had been thrown from the truck as it flipped, and it had crushed the two. The young lady before me was fading fast and had lost most of her blood. I took some baby diapers and put it under her head and held her hand as she shivered and died. Windows open and no buckles.
A couple of days later I was through there again, parked on a scenic turnout, and walked along the highway towards the skid marks. I carried an empty camera to appear to be a traveler and as traffic would pass fake a shot. As I reached the beginning of their swerve, beside the highway in the grass was a page torn from a dashboard calender, the first day of November, the day of the wreck.
As this young lady tore the page and dropped it out the window, the truck began to leave the road, and a swift over correction in steering sent it back across the highway, but as it returned to the pavement it began to flip. So sad, such a happy moment can become so sad in a mere instant, and change the lives of so many.
As I returned to my vehicle a car stopped beside me. It was her family returning from her funeral, her mother looking at me as though she knew. I opened the camera cover to reveal it had no film, and handed her the page from the calender, told her it may well have been the young ladies final happy moments, and expressed my deepest condolences.
These pictures also remind me of a time on an office tower, the interior elevators were not up and running, and the exterior construction elevator had been removed that day. A scissor lift had been needed on the 8th floor but had not been delivered. A young foreman with the company loaded one on a platform hooked to the crane, and rode it up, not even a safety harness on. The crane operator should not have complied with his orders to take it up, but did it for him. The platform was raised to the 8th floor, and the man attempted to drive it off the platform onto the floor, but instead of it rolling onto the floor, it pushed the platform out from under him, and he rode the scissor lift to the ground.
I had left that day at 4, and the notice in the morning paper said 911 had been called at 4:20. I had just recently been transferred to this project and didn't know the man personally, but learned he had left behind a wife and a family, and was well liked by the men and women on our crews.
As day began to break, and the job site was buckled up tight in advance of an OSHA inspection, I stood watch on the still open edge of the 8th floor, looking down at a fenced in crumpled scissor lift, and a boquet of flowers laying beside it, contemplating his final moments. It was after 4, he wanted to go home, he needed the lift here, and got in a rush. He went home, but not the one he had expected.
In light of these experiences, things such as I can see in the photos don't really make a lot of sense to me. Things can change in an instant, and never be the same, no matter how good you are. I've been in situations where it was near miraculous that I survived, and thinking back I wonder how. Always use your better judgment, because it can happen to anyone at any time
Once again, words of wisdom from the Bear. Thank you.
I got to see the videos tonight. That track hoe doesn't look so bad, but that backhoe video still looks like it could go tipsy at any moment. I didn't even watch them all, but whatever they're loading, looks like they'd be better off using hoppers and chutes
Maybe in case the hopper bottom would not open. I know many a time we had to use a Ford tractor with a chain to open a hopper slide that had been jammed shut.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear