Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

I don't know why but my best sleeps are on the floor. If a bed is too comfortable or soft, I get sore and sleep on the floor.

#firstworldproblems

 

Thinking back many years ago on the harvest run. We had 3 combines and one lowboy trailer sitting in Idaho Falls. 3 of us left west Kansas to go bring them back. I had the 3rd truck loaded up on my bed to save on wear and tear. We got out to Pindale, Wy in the wee hours of the morning. I kicked my passenger out and he crawled into his truck on my trailer. [This was the kind of guy you had to wake up 5 times and still wait on him.] Plan was 8:00 we roll.
Morning came. We got up and knocked on his door. Nothing. Went inside for quick breakfast. Came out Knocked again. Still nothing. Checked oil, rigged the log. Knocked one last time. Nothing. He had to feel my truck fire up. Still nothing. I figured it was time to teach him a lesson. I hit the biggest hole I could find on the way out of the truck stop. I just got er straitened out when the radio came to life.
Lemmme out.
Lemmme out.
Lemmme outtttttttttttttttttt.
I figured good I know we didn't leave him there.
Told him too late, Next stop is before the scale at the border. Boy did we have fun with him. Of course we had him loaded facing backwards.
I think we cured him from his sleeping in problems.
*****Disclaimer******
This was in the good old days of trucking. Do not try this at home.

 

My day must have annoyed the boss to get 12" pipes for the second load.
Unload the last load on Monday a couple of miles from where I park.

 

I am taking a very indirect route to Nevada with a couple day layover in CO and then back to IN. Company specified route, their paying I'm driving. They like to send me somewhere and have me there for up to 1 week and then send on to a new place and have me there for a while and so on till I get back home.

 

Sounds like a guy I knew years ago. Would tell his drivers here take this rte and this rte. When you get to this location call me. Then he would give them more rtes.. Then a stop off.
He was famous for lding his trks. a tad.... heavy and he would rte. them around scales... As long as you were on the rte. he told you and got caught. He would bail you out. But if you weren't on his rte. and got caught. Well you were swinging in the breeze all by yourself..

 

Yea loading motor graders can be a tad tricky. Trying to suck the blade up under the unit and if not careful you will get a steer tire...

 

Sound like maybe you had an experience with that. Just kidding,.. no disrespect meant,.. please.

15 yrs in construction,.. not much I havent seen.

I had just come to work for this company,.. I didnt stay long, bumped heads with a few people and felt I wasnt going to get very far no matter how good I was. Once you P/O the wrong people,.. its like a scar that never heals.

Anyway,.. company driver came to get my excavator to move to another job. 330 CAT,.. not a small machine,.. but nothing like a 345. Anyway,.. he was struggling to get the tracks lined up on the trailer. I offered to put the machine how he needed it as I had loaded my machines hundreds of times before. He took offense to it, stating that all of us operators didnt know a thing about loading RGN's and that we should leave the mens work alone. Oh Kaay hoss,.. you got it.

That was all I needed. So a couple weeks later I'm watching him load a Komatsu grader,. he had the blade shot off to the side straight up in the air as high as it would go. He got it on the trailer easily enough,.. but when he went to bring the blade back down under the machine, he slid the blade to the opposite side and when he rotated it down,.. he then slid the blade back and put it right into the tire. Complete Karma moment as I had watched the whole thing happen.

I've done a couple graders on my step deck. Each time all I did was raise the front and rear of the blade with an angle and it cleared my ramps and deck with out any fuss. RGN would be a breeze to load IMO.

Hurst

 

Quicky load I did. Rest rooms and septic tanks.



Delivered to a park in Ohio.

Dead heading to Newberry SC to the Komatsu plant to pick up a WA 500-7 rubber tire loader Monday morning. Not supposed to have a bucket. Supposed to be 78k.

I'm thinking it should be a straight forward tie down,.. but as always,.. any advise or suggestions on things I may have over looked are welcome.

Hurst

 

Well I have been lucky on the few I have lded.
Never cut the tire. Came close though.
I saw it happen one time at the yard where I used to work at. I offered to help. No I got it. Ok. Was spotting him..
When he went to suck in the blade I said be careful. Nope went the wrong way, as I'm yelling and waving stop.. To late

 

Thought I was going to have an easy swap. Picked this up at the shop



Then I got to the job site and seen my swap



Tires and bucket were removed. Challenge, how am I going to load it. I don't have a winch but I see a 980 Volvo loader, so I park my trailer directly behind it, leaving enough room for me to disconnect and manoeuvre my truck to the side, so I can lift the front end with the loader and push it on.

Well I find out, the machine doesn't even run so we have to push it on.

After a bunch of manoeuvring, we get it on my trailer, then someone comes over and tells us, we are loading the wrong machine.

I FORGOT the first thing I was taught, before loading, always check the machines numbers to make sure you got the right machine.

So,not wanting to waste what I did, I talk to the foreman and we decide to load both broken skidsteers. But he had an 329 excavator in the back, so we used that to pick them up and load it easily.

Didn't get no later pics as working for 2 hours in 100 degrees weather, I was barely hydrated enough not to be dehydrated.