Oops - Why you should follow posted bridge limits

[Cyclone Jake]

This was passed around work a couple weeks ago (we build the blue cart attached to the tractor). He's lucky it wasn't worse.

http://www.co.hardin.ia.us/files/AudubonCoIncident.pdf

 

[farmboy12]

Just by looking you van see it isn't made for heavy crossing. 9 tons seems over rated for that bridge.


Kyle

 

[EddieWalker]

I wonder if that was the first time he tried crossing that bridge, or if it's one of those things he's done before ang gotten lucky with?

Eddie

 

[shane]

I wonder if, or if it's one of those things he's done before ang gotten lucky with?

Eddie

Thought the same thing. No matter, his luck "ran out" that time.
I wonder if he has some kind of insurance to cover his loss.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Is that 9 tons per axle?: Bummer for that guy. A lot of grain down the drain...

 

[EddieWalker]

... I wonder if he has some kind of insurance to cover his loss.

I'm more interested in the bridge and what it will cost him to have it rebuilt. No way can he argue that he didn't know or that it wasn't his fault. It looks to be clearly posted and his weight is so far over that limit that it's to the point of being silly.

Eddie

 

[radioman]

Is this for real ? The bridge looks way under built just for a farm machinery.

 

[DANOCHEESE]

IT is real there are bridges all over Iowa like that. Years ago all the money was shifted into oil roads so the bridges were neglected. For about 4 years now they have been trying to catch up on bridge repair.

Also it is ahrd to keep up with the farmers and there machinery. Forme county I lived in jsut got a little upset becasue the farmer knocked off all the reflectors on a bridge with a grain head. Hey it fit above the railing he jsut forgot about the little reflectors sitting on top.

 

[Matt_Jr]

"Whoa. What on earth was that noise..? Wha..where...THE TRAILER...THE BRIDGE...DARN. That didn't go 'quite' like I had planned."

 

[radman1]

I have to deal with a small bridge on a little traveled county road. The bridge is rated for 4 tons, wide enough for 1 car in either direction and has no siderails. It really is rediculous. My Ford F250 weighs more than 4 tons. Am I liable if the bridge collapes when I cross it in my unloaded pickup? I have even requested that the county just remove the bridge and put a slope with a cement bottom in the ditch which is dry unless is rains. They don't want to do that either. I am one of the few people who use the road. When I drive tractors/equipment on the road, I go through my adjacent field, down through the ditch (which isn't very deep and next to the bridge) and back onto the road.

The guy driving the tractor was just plain stupid. The tractor alone weighs more than nine tons. My guess is he may have crossed it empty before but forgot the trailer was loaded.