Buying crushed rock -- new MSHA rules?

[Dennis59]

Hooked up the Big Tex dump trailer to get a load of 5/8 yesterday. When i got to the pit where i have bought for 30 years i was told by dispatch that MSHA prohibits anyone without a contractors license from being in the pit or buyIng rock. I maintain 1/4 mile gravel road. Anyone else heard about such nonsense?

I sure every pit has stories of someone showing up with a F150 and a 5' x 10" dump trailer and want if filled full with rock and get blamed for the issues it causes to the truck or on the road.

 

[stuckmotor]

Back in the seventies I used to drive my pickup into the local pit where an employee put all my truck could carry into the bed with a huge loader. I needed more over twenty years later and was told I had to get them from a local yard that sold landscape supplies. The loader driver at the pit had accidentally backed over a pickup and they were banned from going in there.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep… I would pull up with my box trailer and the loader bucket was was much wider than my trailer long… the hood old days…

 

[stuckmotor]

It was mildly exciting to see how they'd drilled into the granite to blast it loose. One time somebody had a buffalo fenced in out there.

 

[MossRoad]

Yep… I would pull up with my box trailer and the loader bucket was was much wider than my trailer long… the hood old days…

At our local cement plant, where I pick up crushed limestone, gravel, etc., due to convenient close location, they have a large loader with a skilled operator. They don't mind dealing with small potatoes like myself. You just have to wait a few minutes while they feed the cement plant. But if you park the trailer just right, the loader driver will come flying over, scoop only into the corner of his bucket, then dump slowly right over your axles until you tell him to stop. A friendly wave and off he goes.

 

[Jstpssng]

When I was working for a landscaper years ago I was sent out one day to load loam for a customer. I was using a big pay loader with absolutely no brakes and he had a tiny trailer behind a car. I loaded the bucket, raised it and had him back under it: there was no way I’d try to drive up to the little trailer.

 

[stuckmotor]

When I was working for a landscaper years ago I was sent out one day to load loam for a customer. I was using a big pay loader with absolutely no brakes and he had a tiny trailer behind a car. I loaded the bucket, raised it and had him back under it: there was no way I’d try to drive up to the little trailer.

Good thinking.

 

[Dftodd]

Good thinking.

I've had a couple occasions where I've had to load or unload equipment that way.

Equipment was right at the top of the lifting capacity for our large forklift at the shop.

Scooped up the equipment so it just cleared the trailer and had the truck driver ease out from under it.

Reversed the process when we shipped it back out after the job was done.

 

[jyoutz]

Texans wouldn't stand for that. They'd turn the certificate into a target on a post.

There are no licensed contractors in Texas? What are you saying?

 

[jyoutz]

I sure every pit has stories of someone showing up with a F150 and a 5' x 10" dump trailer and want if filled full with rock and get blamed for the issues it causes to the truck or on the road.

Not to mention that both the F150 and trailer are over their weight limits.