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[powerstroke2000]

there are to many pictures to upload so I will just post the link they are well worth looking out
some major bridge damage


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[MossRoad]

That link had been posted a couple times earlier this year. I'd hate to be the guy that has to pay for those repairs.

 

[Thomas]

Morning PS2000.
I wonder if the guy still has a job....yikes.

 

[Steve_Miller]

In Nova Scotia, I've never seen an excavator loaded forward on a float, they are always backwards, this way the boom would just jam under the bridge or overpass and I've seen a couple of those. Was this evcavator loaded forward because it was a dredging type (overlength boom and this changes the load distribution on the float)?

Steve

 

[MarkStewart]

Here's the story to go with the pics.


Quoted from other BB.
and heres a news story on it:
Alana Rocha
KWCH 12 Eyewitness News
Tuesday, February 14, 2006



Engineers take a look at the damage done on an I-70 bridge overpass. An excavator tore a hole into the bridge after the truck hauling the machine hit the overpass near Hays and got stuck.
Troopers say the driver, Michael Conley, did not have a permit to haul the oversized load on the interstate. If the driver had applied for a permit, it would have outlined the safest route to take. I-70 would not have been on Conley's route because of the overpasses.

He was eastbound when he hit roughly two to three feet up onto the bridge. That's what caused the boom to swing back and puncture through the deck.

No one was hurt. Drivers have to take a three mile detour around Hays.

Kevin Zimmer is the Kansas Department of Transportation Area Engineer. "We do not want to remove the excavator or trailer until its deemed safe to actually do that."

Bridge engineers from Topeka will determine whether the bridge can be repaired or has to be replaced. It's not clear when traffic will return to normal.
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