Backhoe flips with trailer

[JayC]

I'll bet this took the pickup for a ride...

YouTube - Wipeout!! Accident Backhoe Flipped on trailer

 

[Bedlam]

WOW NOT much left of the wheels or hubs on that one.

 

[tinkertoys]

iF THAT RED P/U WAS PULLING THE TRAILER IT LOOKS LIKE A 1/2 TON. If that is so he wasn't very smart. Looks as backhoe probally was to far back on the trailer.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I would take this as an example of why it pays to do things correctly. Not knowing all the particulars, the driver just may have had his ducks in a row. Someone might well have cut him off and when the driver reacted, they may well have just lost it.

In looking at the video, I would have had the machine chained differently though it stayed with the trailer. It might have shifted backwards some when the trailer flipped.

I know of one last summer/fall. Guy was taking his newly restored tractor to a show and ended up exactly like that. He got cut off and lost it. Tow vehicle, trailer, load, securing devices were all in order.

To bad, did a number on his nice tractor too.

 

[vettemanwight]

Looks as though he lost both hubs on right side of trailer. Overall I would say he had load secure enough on trailer. V

 

[rcrcomputing]

I was waiting to see the tractor start.

 

[Scooby074]

Looks like it may have been a rental in the video. Hope he took the full insurance!