Car Unloading

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McCaskey

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Snapped a quick picture when driving by this.

Count the safety mistakes here:
Winch cable unhooked
Truck wheels not blocked
Operator under vehicle
Truck on ice, downhill slope

Potential: Truck slides down hill on ice, dropping vehicle on operator
Actual: No injuries, just dumb luck & stupid
 

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   / Car Unloading #2  
Snapped a quick picture when driving by this.

Count the safety mistakes here:
Winch cable unhooked
Truck wheels not blocked
Operator under vehicle
Truck on ice, downhill slope

Potential: Truck slides down hill on ice, dropping vehicle on operator
Actual: No injuries, just dumb luck & stupid

I see the possibility for a darwin award there...
 
   / Car Unloading #3  
This proves my statement, "you can fix ugly, but stupid, is forever!" But. . . . and we all have did dumb stuff, i've done my share! :thumbsup:. . .John
 
   / Car Unloading #6  
I dont know if the cable is attached but it it is It would be safer than it just sitting up there. Id hope the driver had enough sense to cable it. Back in the mid eightes all the salvage yards used what called skid trucks to pick up cars. Basically a flatbed with a pto winch and on the back it had a 24 or 36 inch pipe split or 1/4th. THey just skidded them u p and over the tail of the bed. Often times the drivers would winch one half way up lik in the picture and get under and pull parts.


What he was doing in that pic was probably had it hooked in the rear frame pull holes and then sesawed it on the rollbacks bed to get his tow chains started on front hooking points. My friend with the roll off service here does this often the winch stays hooked on the rear then he gets under it and attaches the mid or front safety chains. Then when the car is all the way up the chains are in place.
 
   / Car Unloading #8  
Maybe he figured out an easy way to steal the catalytic convertor....
 

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