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Sheesh...and I could have sworn we sold Screed's company the "anti-tip" package.
Hmmm....
Regards,
Tony
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WOW!, was anyone in the cab at the time?
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I'm glad he didn't get hurt,but how long has screed been operating?Everytime I see something like this happen I think to myself why do guys operate with the tracks parallel to the hole and then extend the stick all the way out.I'm not putting anyone down but this type of incident is always avoidable.Again,so glad no one was hurt.later guys.
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Tony,
That machine had 110 hours on it when that happened. I was in the cab definately not one of my finer moments. I've been operating since I'm 6 years old. I was backfilling the drainage rings when the two feet of frost I was sitting on gave way. I thought I was far enough away that it wouldn't go over so I raised the boom so I wouldn't hit the precast. I pulled to hard a jerked the machine and she started to flip. I was straight over the side when it went for some strange reason I closed my eyes and swung to the right. As the machine went over the bucket got embedded in the only rings that were backfilled. Just dumb luck I guess. Those rings are 18 feet deep. We got some big cables and pulled that 300 over with a d65 and a 744h. I went over at 8:30 am and was running at 10am. No damage to the machine, not even a broken mirror. Someone was watching over me that day. The logistics of the job is why I was backfilling over the side. The loaders were doing other thing so I had to walk each bucket to the hole. Sometimes we do things were not supposed to and its catches up to us, in this case the only damage was the top two rings of that one pool.
Todd
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Todd was nice enough to share the pics of his accident with us, maybe we should not jump all over him about what he should have done. I wouldn't want my mistakes made public, and neither would most other people. These pics are an opportunity to learn something, we should all study them.
Dump on the edges, the middle will take care of itself.
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Hey you know what they say "S**t happens."You have to do what you have to do and unfortunetly that catches up sometimes. Glad to hear you were unharmed.
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627push/pull wrote: Todd was nice enough to share the pics of his accident with us, maybe we should not jump all over him about what he should have done. I wouldn't want my mistakes made public, and neither would most other people. These pics are an opportunity to learn something, we should all study them. Well put. Even tho accidents suck the pics are probaly cool to look at now that damage is far in the past. Mike
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Just glad nothing happened to you screed.Like you said,sometimes we do things we're not supposed to.I'm guilty of that myself.I was taught at a young age to always point the tracks in the direction in which you're dumping,especially over ledges.Stay safe and have a good one.Later.
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A good example of someone owning up to a mistake.
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