Help, what happened

[J_J]

Help, can anyone see me.

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

I'm surprised you have signal from down there.:laughing:
Can you hear me now?

 

[Thomas]

Rise of the machines.

 

[Baby Grand]

That's a great shot, J_J! When I was a wee laddy, an old duffer, who had worked as a Maine State Guide in his younger years, spun a yarn of a large piece of earthmoving equipment used to build the Airline. Left for the night by the workmen in a boggy area, it vanished, and in the morning the returning workmen found only a rectangular pool of tannic water.

 

[etcallhome]

wow!!!! Hope no one was hurt !! Several weeks ago ,a bulldozer and operator, slipped down into a slurry pond at a Union coal mine here in WV. Found operator still in cab 7-10 days later. 2 other men fell in but I think they are doing OK.

 

[MIKE R]

Wow. Thats stuck.

There is a sink hole up on the road at my bush lot that a logger buried a grader in. They had to dig it out with a excavator and pull with the dozer to get it out. I only wish I could have seen it insted of being told about it.

 

[Don87]

They claim there is a D9 in the swamp behind my house. The swamp is on the gas pipeline right-of-way.

 

[dave1949]

Well, time for a metal detector and a thread on how to get it out!

 

[300UGUY]

We had a garbage truck run off the road into a swamp down the road. The shoulder was soft, and the truck went over sideways. Over the next week, the truck continued to sink, to the point that only about 2 ft of one corner of the body was above water. They tried to drag it out, no luck. They finally had to bring in several gravel trains of gravel, build a pad, then bring in a big crane, pick it up out of the mud, set it down on the road. All with the dnr oversight. It did have the effect of improving that area of road considerably. I felt sorry for the driver, he had only been on the job for 2 weeks, and it was a brand new truck. No one was hurt, so it was a good accident.

 

[davedj1]

Many years ago a cement truck filled with about 10-11 yards of ctete went off the road into a field. No injuries. The farmer told them if they couldn't move it to bury it so that is what they did.

 

[Qapla]

Many years ago we had a train hit a fully loaded cement truck. The train was moving very slow but it was still enough to derail the train and knock the cement truck over. They both had to lay there while a rail crane was brought in to lift them up. The train was placed back on the tracks and drove off under it's own power.

The cement truck wasn't badly hurt but was totaled since the concrete set up inside the drum and rendered the truck useless.

 

[/pine]

Many years ago we had a train hit a fully loaded cement truck. The train was moving very slow but it was still enough to derail the train and knock the cement truck over. They both had to lay there while a rail crane was brought in to lift them up. The train was placed back on the tracks and drove off under it's own power.

The cement truck wasn't badly hurt but was totaled since the concrete set up inside the drum and rendered the truck useless.

In the early 70's I saw a train going about 45mph hit a fully loaded concrete truck...the drum dislodged from the truck and spewed concrete everywhere...the driver was killed as well as a guy in Porsche 912 that had stopped for the train...something I will never forget...

The picture in the OP reminds me of the final scene from an horror movie "The Claw"

 

[dmccarty]

In the early 70's I saw a train going about 45mph hit a fully loaded concrete truck...the drum dislodged from the truck and spewed concrete everywhere...the driver was killed as well as a guy in Porsche 912 that had stopped for the train...something I will never forget...

I have been stopped in traffic at a RR crossing more than once where someone has stopped on the track. I have told myself, if a train comes down the track, I am running from the truck. Figure running 45 degrees back towards the trains direction of travel was safest.

Later,
Dan

 

[sam5570]

that look's like one of them shovel ready job's, what you think

 

[Looking4new]

The story goes that on Hwy 27 north of Toronto, back when they were building that road they had to go through a swampy area and they dumped everything they could into the swamp to try and find bottom. Old cars, a dozer sunk over night. I think that was in the '40's. No environmental concerns then.

 

[The Haymaker]

The cement truck wasn't badly hurt but was totaled since the concrete set up inside the drum and rendered the truck useless.

They could've saved the truck, they just didn't use the right technique.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Many years ago we had a train hit a fully loaded cement truck. The train was moving very slow but it was still enough to derail the train and knock the cement truck over. They both had to lay there while a rail crane was brought in to lift them up. The train was placed back on the tracks and drove off under it's own power.

The cement truck wasn't badly hurt but was totaled since the concrete set up inside the drum and rendered the truck useless.

If the truck was totaled, I am sure it was more damage that what appeared to be. Drums are replaceable for a fraction of the cost of the truck and they do wear out much faster than the truck so that really is an expendable item. I would imagine that the frame and axles were all bent along with the drum. Concrete can be chipped out of the drum also.
Did you know that putting 5 to 10 pounds of sugar into a full drum of concrete will keep it from setting up -FOREVER. If they have power to rotate the drum to mix it up a bit, the sugar will allow it to set for days and not harden.
We had a full 8 yards poured into forms for furnace supports and it wouldn't harden. It crusted over on the outside and they removed the forms and it looked good till an electrician tried to drill a hole for a concrete anchor to hold some PVC for a ground cable and the drill just went in like it was putty. They let it set for 28 days and it never got any harder. Laborers took it out with shovels and water hoses to remove the wet concrete. Rebar was still ok so after reforming, it was poured again. Of course the supplier paid for that, plus the labor to remove it and repour. THEY took samples and sent them to the lab to see why it wouldn't harden. It was tested for sugar and none was found and the cement content was per the mix design but it just wouldn't hydrate> It may as well have used dry clay powder rather than cement.

 

[pat32rf]

I've been told that some drivers carry a case of coke to dump into the drum in the event of an accident that is going to prevent delivery....

 

[GManBart]

I've been told that some drivers carry a case of coke to dump into the drum in the event of an accident that is going to prevent delivery....

I drove mixer trucks for 5 summers in HS and college, and never heard of that. I'm not saying it isn't done, but I'm not sure how I would work. If the truck can power the barrel, the concrete won't set up if you keep it turning very slowly, and give it a little shot of water now and then (one exception would be in extremely hot weather). If the truck is in an accident, and can't power the barrel, there's no way to mix anything in the concrete to slow it from hardening.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I drove mixer trucks for 5 summers in HS and college, and never heard of that. I'm not saying it isn't done, but I'm not sure how I would work. If the truck can power the barrel, the concrete won't set up if you keep it turning very slowly, and give it a little shot of water now and then (one exception would be in extremely hot weather). If the truck is in an accident, and can't power the barrel, there's no way to mix anything in the concrete to slow it from hardening.

You are right if motor breaks down, not much to do other than get out the jackhammer and chip out the concrete from the drum (I have seen that happening at a batch plant and they also have to occasionally chip off the vanes in the drum or it doesn't mix correctly when they are loaded up with hardened concrete) A flat tire on the road is enough delay for the concrete to set and if it is very hot weather the 100 gallons of water that they carry wont stop the concrete from hardening but 10 pounds of sugar will stop it indefinitely if you can mix it in.