Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Truro, I think I was only 10 miles below Provincetown

 

My last "big" job, exactly 1 yr ago today. 117' bridge girders. Crummy picture but we went at night with police escorts. Did 3 loads before lane closure expired

 

rolls of sod.
Hadn't actually done these before, they like average size rolls. they are 4 across and 9 rolls back. and (are you sitting down). It made weight!!!!!!!!!!

I swear that's the first time i"ve hauled sod (usually pallets, the small rolls) and made weight.

 

My Friday
Load #1 of brick. Notice they are not the same size. Notice they are big pallets of brick. They did at least shrink wrap them all.



Load #2 of brick pavers



Load #3 of brick.

I put 5 hours on the drive clock. I didn't go 100 miles. It's almost all freeway.

They are putting up a new building at a university campus. They had to pick up and stack BY HAND 57 pallets (you see them above) all the pavers for the walkways and patios and are "storing them". They told me it took the crew 2 weeks to do all this.

TON OF BRICKS.

They aren't all just regular bricks, some are cut to make angles and stuff. How are you possibly going to put that back together? Could easily buy new brick for less and just save the "donor" bricks. But no, 57 pallets.

BTW, the "scenery" on campus on this beautiful spring day was quite nice, esp having a nice vantage point up on the flatbed directing the forklift.

 

No photos of the scenery. No excuse for such behavior.

 

Seriously!!! We've all seen bricks before but some of us might be a little starved for "scenery"

Funny story: Maybe 16-17 yrs ago, I was delivering steel to a large university in Boston. About a 10 story dormitory going up. There was an existing dorm about 50 yards away and up on the second or third floor facing the jobsite, there was a girl that would sleep naked and with her curtains wide open! Big giant windows in her room and every morning when she got out of bed, she liked to just stand there in the window...(she knew what she was doing)
I'd back in and the iron worker foreman would climb up in the cab with me and we'd just watch an' wait. I only got to see her maybe 3 or 4 times, but everybody on that site would just be waitin' for her, every morning usually around 8AM. It would practically shut the whole job down, all the porta-potties had a vent window knocked out on the side facing her room. This was back when everyone was using the Nextel walkie-talkie phones so everybody knew when she got up! I really hated to look cuz I had daughters her age, but I couldn't help myself...
There was even a rumor of a pool going on-site with the winner being whoever might be standing next to her in the window, waving to everyone on the job!
Eventually, somebody from the general contractors trailer had to go up and tell her she couldn't sleep with her curtains open anymore...

 

13'11"

 

...and he was never seen again.

 

I was foreman on a subdivision job once and my grade checker was looking through the instrument the wrong direction for a while, so I went and ask what he was doing. He told me to look for myself.
It seemed that there was a young lad (I was fairly young myself) washing her horse in a string bikini.
I went over there to tell her that she was keeping my crew from working. lol
I wound up riding with her on the horse back over to the job, and my hands gave me a hard time for a while over it. lol

 

concrete sound walls.



did like 6 loads of these yesterday. In the snow and rain. Easy enough but man is the truck dirty. These pics were early before it really got yucky out.

Hilarious thing? they were just throwing them away. Rejected ones, extras, whatever. just making room/inventory/whatever I dunno I just drive the truck.

the big one in the 2nd picture is like 11x20. About 24,000lbs. each