You need balast or you will trash your front axle!!!! really?

[SPYDERLK]

I don't think it is staged picture. I think he was able to lift the stack of lumber off the trailer. Then as he backed up with the load high the tractor tipped over.

Look at the fork angle. Its staged.

Addressing your posit however, doesnt fit together. When you lift and are not quite overbalanced, your rears lift as soon as you start to back up. The load would go right back down onto the truck/trailer.

 

[ovrszd]

Do you find that shovel handles or rakes or whatever stick too far out the bottom? Could catch the ground, or brush in the woods and break a
handle? If I was doing a design like that, I'd probably but some expanded metal or something in the bottom so none of the handle sticks out

Since I don't have this creation, I am just guessing. I think they just put a small hole in the bottom of the capped plastic pipe to let water out. :confused3:

 

[countrybumpkin]

Since I don't have this creation, I am just guessing. I think they just put a small hole in the bottom of the capped plastic pipe to let water out. :confused3:

Yes, when I installed the PVC in the form, I just let the cap touch the bottom of the form, the tubes where tied to the rebar inside the forms to keep them from slipping. After I removed the forms and let the block set up , I laid it on its back found where the tubes where under the surface and drilled a 3/8 hole. The tubes are still just above the bottom of the block.

 

[countrybumpkin]

Here is a pic of the back side, i also added a receiver tube just in case.

 

[4570Man]

Look at the fork angle. Its staged. Addressing your posit however, doesnt fit together. When you lift and are not quite overbalanced, your rears lift as soon as you start to back up. The load would go right back down onto the truck/trailer.

He could have hit a small hole which was enough to tip it over or he could have slid it off the trailer.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Yes, when I installed the PVC in the form, I just let the cap touch the bottom of the form, the tubes where tied to the rebar inside the forms to keep them from slipping. After I removed the forms and let the block set up , I laid it on its back found where the tubes where under the surface and drilled a 3/8 hole. The tubes are still just above the bottom of the block.

I screwed a 5/8" lag bolt through the bottom of my form and into a PVC cap for the pipe. The lag bolt held the cap off the bottom be 3-4" and held the pipe in place during pouring. After the concrete cured l just unscrewed the bolt out of the bottom.
I didn't want the cap resting directly on the bottom because I thought I'd eventually bust through by dropping tool handles in there.
Just another way to skin the cat.

 

[jenkinsph]

He could have hit a small hole which was enough to tip it over or he could have slid it off the trailer.

I doubt it looks like a larger forklift made the delivery or a roll off truck. That tractor isn't big enough to lift that load off the ground at all. That is twice as much as the small tractor can lift.

 

[4570Man]

I doubt it looks like a larger forklift made the delivery or a roll off truck. That tractor isn't big enough to lift that load off the ground at all. That is twice as much as the small tractor can lift.

He still could have drug it off the trailer.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I doubt it looks like a larger forklift made the delivery or a roll off truck. That tractor isn't big enough to lift that load off the ground at all. That is twice as much as the small tractor can lift.

He still could have drug it off the trailer.

In what way could that leave the fork at the angle shown in the pic?

 

[RaydaKub]

In what way could that leave the fork at the angle shown in the pic?

In addition, the loader arms are almost parallel to the hood. That would put the load about 2 feet above the possible height he would have had to drag it off. And to catch the shot exactly as his butt slid down the seat?
It looks good, but I agree, staged.