Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[jjeff]

I have a feeling whoever designed and built the bridge wasn't thinking ahead for future usage by service vehicles that may need to use bridge, Just passenger cars and light trucks to get to residence. Makes me feel more comfortable anyway on spending extra time and a few extra bucks when I've usually overbuilt stuff. Lol

 

[BigBlue1]

Ah - you've been there too?
(Two years there in the 1960's teaching automechanics when Venezuela was a functioning democracy. It's sad to see what Venezuela is today).

In Venezuela in the era of Chavez (when this happened), it's likely that everyone on the site was a political appointee, no relevant expertise, with the assumed project manager having little control over anyone. Recipe for disaster. Look at that truck waiting to come up the hill, blocking the path of the downhill haul. Total idiocy.

Per the comments to the vid, that heavy-haul contractor is world class but it seems that the downhill slope was covered with gravel like marbles, that turned the trailer into a roller skate. I don't see why the contract hauler didn't refuse to move until that steep slope was paved, for some traction. Or else use a couple of D-11 bulldozers as anchors behind the trailer instead of that useless light truck.

All the comments to the video are worth reading. Several posters have relevant experience with similar hauling.

As always, human error.

It didn't even look like the trailer was braking. All of the wheels are still turning... none were skidding.

 

[California]

It didn't even look like the trailer was braking. All of the wheels are still turning... none were skidding.

[crane jackknifed on down grade]. It's interesting to see the comments on that Youtube vid. Some are by experienced heavy-haul drivers. One speculated that the guy on the ground dropped his remote control and after that no trailer brakes were applied.

Alexpops and I seem to have the same impression of how things go in Venezuela.

First time I took the intercity 'chicken bus'. (Every seat occupied, a few grandmas carrying live chickens to market in grocery bags under their seat). That driver was a wannabe rally driver. Re-purposed US Ford/Bluebird school bus. On some curves he was able to get the tail hanging out wide into the oncoming lane and full throttle. Perfectly done, he was a pro.

That was long ago when Venezuela was prosperous. Nowadays I can't imagine Venezuela under Chavez and now Maduro.

 

[civilian]

Could have the crane hauler let the truck and trailer free wheel down the hill and avoid the truck waiting to come up? Either way would have been a white knuckle drive. Jon

 

[cqaigy2]

I was wondering the same Jon, though when the guy in the last truck bailed, it have reduced the likelyhood of a good out come.

 

[aczlan]

Could have the crane hauler let the truck and trailer free wheel down the hill and avoid the truck waiting to come up? Either way would have been a white knuckle drive. Jon

Possibly, hard to tell if that would have worked or just made them crash at a higher rate of speed.

Aaron Z

 

[bcp]

For this thread, does pulling wrong count?

Bruce

 

[Captain Dirty]

This forum could probably keep a thread "Share pics of people felling a tree wrong" active. There is more wrong than the pulling.

Looking at the stump and the smooth cut at the butt I can see no splintering or other evidence af any hinge. The cut on the larger trunk or limb on the near side of the tree is also smooth. The absence of foliage and large areas of missing bark indicate the tree was distressed if not dead and the wood may be unsound, but if rotten I would expect to have seen fractures and splintering. Others will undoubtedly spot more faults than I.

Perhaps the person in charge was professional enough to have insurance.

 

[Jstpssng]

It looks like a dead elm tree to me. Dead trees don't always sheer the way that live trees do.

 

[RandyT]

It looks like a dead elm tree to me. Dead trees don't always sheer the way that live trees do.

Dead elm doesn't hinge well breaking the hinge flush, jumping off the stump or spinning on the stump then falling the opposite direction are common