Thread: The OH+S rep in me doesnt want you to see this.....

when i was a kid a mates dad used to unload theirs like that, but it was a low loader and he would drive it off the side, not the end like that, and being a low loader it wasnt that high off the ground. But you are right thats pretty stupid, and dangerous. Matt

Vid #1 looks like it is Indonesia or Philippines or somewhere ...in those places OH&S is still unheard of ... I;ve seen people clambering around 20 stories up on bamboo scaffolding and operating wackers in barefeet.

.......ingeneous technique though ..they obviously do it regularly ..seems like a practiced drill ... I suppose they get it back on in a reverse procedure.

The 1st one is clever; good way to test those truck springs and other hydraulics.

The 2nd one is genius

The third one is from an episode of Redneck TV

What was he gonna do with the rifle, shoot it down?
Okay this is serious skeet shootin'.....

GQ

Im still looking for the one of the JCB self loaded ontop of a rail grain car to level it off then falling into the gap between 2 cars trying to get across the gap to level the next car.

I have seen the rowing one done before. was watching a doco on the rebuilding after hurricane Katrina, when they were rebuilding the levy's thats how they moved the barges around. Matt

I remember seeing one in Sydney below ground level by around the length of its track
was surround on all four sides by buildings and public sidewalks,, had dug it (some carpark) out beautifully but was then left 20 feet below the sidewalk,
drove up to a sidewalk side, put the bucket on top, lifted itself while driving forward untill the end of the tracks were on top, reversed the bucket, lifted itself level and reversed onto the road.

The assembled public throng cheered!.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

Im still looking for the one of the JCB self loaded ontop of a rail grain car to level it off then falling into the gap between 2 cars trying to get across the gap to level the next car.

yep that one is a classic, only seen it in stills , never a vid.

Unloading/reloading like that using bucket, blade, boom was quite common practice in mining and construction in Oz. Many trucks were built with a fixed half height ramp like that and many low loaders did not have ramps. Operators become quite adept at walking the machine on and off using the hydraulic system as a load bearer or for push/pull ptopulsion. There is even a Norwegian make of tracked face shovel that does not have a drive system but pushes itself around the pit with the bucket and boom.