What is your dream piece of heavy equipment?

[Taylortractornut]

I come out of the quarry with 20000 pounds on a single axle dump truck. Of course its a factory F600 dump truck i only haul it the 3 miles the backway to my house. I usually haul within the leagal limits hen i deliver stone. Ive seen folks that go out and buy an old truck with a grain bed thats got tall sides and is 3 times longer than my rock bed and Gets the loader operator to fill it up to the top. Usually they get refused to get loaded. Ive seen a few sittin at the bottom of the hill with smoked clutches spit open beds tires and other things like that. My favorite one is a fella i go to church with got a load of stone to show his truck was as stout as mine. He blocked the spring s and got 7 yards on his truck. We got to church and i dumped and headed out to get another one when i got back he still hadnt dumped his first load. He asked me to figure out what was wrong I noticed a small pile of stone under his truck hed started to raise the bed not long after he put the pto in gear the telescopic cylinder and "doghouse" were protruding from the load. took all day to unload it with my hoe and beat every thing back together.

 

[ScottAR]

Funny how pride can get the better of one isn't it? /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Overloading even happens in the mines pretty often...

 

[Steven]

WOW /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif who takes the heat for that one. the loader or driver?

 

[ScottAR]

If I remember, a combo of rough haul roads, lax maintence, and extreme cold made that one...

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I have a bud who has a demolition company. They specialize in office demolition. He bought a new Izuzu two ton with a twenty foot bed and four foot sides. The second day or so of having it his crew filled it will brick etc. They broke the frame before the bed got halfwayup.

More than once I've modified a truck or trailer for a customer and had to explain that you never ever build tall sides when there's a chance the crew might need to haul stuff like sand, dirt, or gravel. They'll just assume they can fill it up.

I've also seen some jerks operating big loaders who got their rocks off deliberately dropping heavy loads on vehicles. They should be shot, probably will be someday.

I pulled into a sand and gravel mine outside of Clarksdale Arizona one time. I needed about a yard to a yard and a half of mixed sand and stone for making some concrete for setting some fence posts.

The girl at the counter explained to me that it was eleven dollars a pick up load. I told her that she might want to look at my Texas sized pick up before she made that committment. She looked out at the truck and suggested I go across the scales in and out and be charged by the ton.

I went back up where she instructed and found the loader. It was a big old Cat and had to have at least a five yard bucket. I climbed up to the cab and explained to the operator what I wanted. I followed him down to this one pile where he'd remixed the sand and gravel. Using just a corner of the bucket he picked up a bit. After he'd dropped it in the back of the truck as gentle as anything I ever seen I went down across the scales.

I'd told him that I wanted about a ton and a half. He tried. But he only got me three thousand pounds.

The bill was six dollars and some change.

When I got back to Texas one of my first stops was at a bud's where I buy most of my sand and gravel. I stomped into his office and threw down that receipt on his wife's desk. I asked her why I'd been paying twenty to thirty dollars a yard at their place.

She looked at the receipt, glanced back up at me, and handed it back. "I don't see a problem Harvey. The next time you want to pay that for your materials all you have to do is go to Arizona for it."

Redheads, you never win against them.

 

[bgott]

"I've also seen some jerks operating big loaders who got their rocks off deliberately dropping heavy loads on vehicles. They should be shot, probably will be someday."

I worked in an iron mine in Nevada when I was about 19 driving an R19 Euclid. The guy running the 980 Cat loader thought it was great fun to drop boulders in my Euc and watch me bounce around the cab. The boss saw what was happening and chewed him out, next load, same thing. Guess who got to learn how to drive the loader after lunch!

 

[jtn]

I have seen an experienced loader operator use a 980C to load a Nissan 4X4. True, it was *slightly* overloaded but he dumped it in smoother than glass.

<font color=blue>Redheads, you never win against them</font color=blue>

I resemble that remark!

JT