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[ultrarunner]

A bit of a stretch, but snapped this on my way to work today. Technically not hauling anything,but prepared to.

Who puts roof racks on a quarter million dollar Lamborghini?

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Bring home a Christmas Tree?

 

[Runner]

We have several low overpasses around here and they get stuffed into quite frequently. Several have flashing lights and other warning devices but the idiots just plow right into them.

11 FOOT 8 – The Canopener Bridge

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[Jstpssng]

A few years ago a loaded log truck struck a bridge, knocking a few logs off the top of the load as well as damaging the bridge. I happened to be in a nearby restaurant a few weeks later when the driver was in, complaining about getting caught... When he was buying replacement straps.

 

[Grumpycat]

If only there were a sign, to tell him how high the overpass was.

There is! But it is on the wrong side of the bridge!

 

[Grumpycat]

Some years ago a semi hauling a massive crane struck an overpass on I-565 in Huntsville, AL. Knocked the overpass off it's foundation. Believe it was Research Blvd, a 4 lane limited access road into Redstone Arsenal.

That prompted a high priority rebuild of the bridge, bigger and better than the original. If memory serves, 3 months to re-opening.

Another in past 20-30 years was a fire on or under an overpass in Birmingham in the I-65/I-20/I-59 area. A month or two to rebuild that one.

 

[goeduck]

We tend to get a new kitchen refrigerator every 2 - 4 years, they just die in our house. Now, I haven't weighed any of them, but I'd not be surprised if they all close to this 200 lb. number, rather than 400 lb. I suspect some might be lighter than that, the way I'm able to pretty easily muscle them in/out of their installed location.

tip... don't buy the fancy ones. I have never had to replace a refrigerator in over 40 years. Moved twice, so 3 refrigerators total, leaving appliances in place. I've had to do minor repairs here and there, but no big deal.

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[WinterDeere]

tip... don't buy the fancy ones. I have never had to replace a refrigerator in over 40 years. Moved twice, so 3 refrigerators total, leaving appliances in place. I've had to do minor repairs here and there, but no big deal.

Yep. My 40 year old refrigerator is still running just fine, too! As is my 1953 GE! Even our 1995'ish refrigerator up on the 3rd floor is still running just fine. It's only the new ones that seem to die, anything made after 2012 or 2013.

If you have an old one, hang onto it, since these new ones never even make the decade mark.

 

[ning]

tip... don't buy the fancy ones. I have never had to replace a refrigerator in over 40 years. Moved twice, so 3 refrigerators total, leaving appliances in place. I've had to do minor repairs here and there, but no big deal.

We got a fancy-ish fridge in 2000 but it's not I've of the modern lightweight ones. About 7 years ago I had to epoxy something in the motorized vent between the freezer and fridge because it was broken and part no longer available, but it's still working today. Just replaced the compressor fan last week.

Our good sized but definitely not fancy fridge we'd bought new at a ding& dent store in 1992 is also still going strong - and I've never had to fix anything on it.

 

[Renze]

This was in today's paper, happened this morning on the back way from Salem to Independence.
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On my way to work there was an overpass with 4.05 meter clearance, any legal height truck can pass. Yet every eastern European machinery hauler hits it, because most overpasses have 20cm clearance above the legal trailer height limit.

Assumption is the mother of all f-ups...