Someone is Having a Hell of a Bad Day

We get to play on surface streets a bunch in Ohio and New York.

 

They do that. Years ago, they routed me through Dallas on the local roads with a 49 meter blade. They wanted me to make my from Dallas to 35W in Ft Worth to 287 (destination was WilliamsAZ). I called the state and had the permit amended across i20W to i820W to us287B to us287 to i40W (common superload route).

 

You know how you pin the fifth wheel pulling a frameless end dump? I have to wonder if the bolster on the jeep tips really easily when at near 90 degrees, which put all the pressure to keep the beam level on the dolly bolster.

In other words, it doesn't appear as an equipment failure but rather circumstances related to the road crown like JD mentioned. I don't know the solution as pinning the fifth wheel might tear something up. I'm just mumbling my observations.

 

Years ago I worked for a bridge contractor and have hauled a few. Those that I hauled were poured pre-stressed. They had a series of cable running the length of the beam and the cable was taught and pulled down in the middle until the concrete sets. This helps provide the camber seen in the beams. Someone please correct me if this is not done anymore, or if the process I described is incorrect.

Anyway, what this means is that the beams can only be lifted or supported on the ends. Setting them where something touches the middle can break them. If one of those rotaters picked in the middle of the beam it could break as well.

As it looks in the photo the beam appears to be fine so far. I couldn't venture a guess on the value.

 

Nooooo. One thread is bad enough.

 

I did. I noticed that the cabover ladder truck/100 ton rotator is taking all the weight of that beam. The other 3 are just there as spotters incase he gets overwhelmed and can finish lifting it.

Were you saying that the ladder truck was doing the work of 5 rotator wrecker trucks? That's kinda what I see going on here.....those ladder trucks are stout

 

Here is a tator I recorded recently.

 

Anyone remember Continental Towing out of L.A. They claimed to to have the biggest booms in the country. My brother in law worked for them back in 1969 and I saw a picture in their office of 2 of their trucks up righting a locomotive.