Low loader slip!!

[LGP]

Sideloading a digger onto a lowloader should be no problem and as safe as houses for a careful operator, as long as the trailer is level and the surrounding ground is flattish. Getting a dozer on from the side, however, isn't too bad, but they inevitably rattle your teeth when coming off again!

[v8detroit]

Sideloading a digger onto a lowloader should be no problem and as safe as houses for a careful operator, as long as the trailer is level and the surrounding ground is flattish. Getting a dozer on from the side, however, isn't too bad, but they inevitably rattle your teeth when coming off again!

when i was driving machines every one had a king,or transquip 2 axel low bed every thing was put up over the side.i once had a 3 axel king
folding neck semi slope stepframe hard to load over the side because it was 16 inches different hight from front to back ,but it was quicker than starting the donkey and disconecting the unit and folding the neck.it`s not too bad as long as you take your time ,it allways goes wrong when some one is watchig you ,if it was 5 in the morning with no one about it would go straight on no problems !!!

[LGP]

I remember working on remote Scottish islands where it would cost an arm and a leg to get lowloaders in on a boat. We used an ordinary flat bed Mercedes 6-wheeler at one time to move diggers. It could be a bit hairy getting a 16-ton FiatAllis on the back of that (and pretty hairy to drive the truck with it on the back too). Sometimes the only way to move was to track the machines long distances up the road. One of the operators tracked a Liebherr 961 about 12 miles once! Pretty bad for the guys chucking tyres in front of the tracks, and pretty bad for the track motors too.

[martyn williams]

Rapid unload of a well worn out 22 RB,Good job the driver managed to slew it at the last minute.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L22y33WaoI

Martyn

[kev@ascroft]

bet he puts all his outriggers out next time, get away with it most of the time with new machines but old ones, no chance.

[FOWLER MAN]

Rapid unload of a well worn out 22 RB,Good job the driver managed to slew it at the last minute.

Hi Martyn,
The tracks do look well worn on that 22, but the only thing that contributed to that rapid unload was the operator.
For those who don't know, the long lever nearest the jib which he is using opperates the slew clutches. When the machine is set in travel mode these two counter rotating clutches opperate the travel, one forward and one back.
The machine is being taken off backwards, (ie.travel chains first), so the lever would need to be pulled back in the cab to travel off. You can see the opperator riding the lever to ease the machine over onto the ramps, then instead of pulling it right back to toggle it into drive he lets it go disengaging the drive and allowing the machine to run away.
The fact that the machine slewed was pure luck and not down to the opperator attall as he would have had no control over this without first bringing the machine to a halt and spragging.
Fred

[gah1950]

hello fred.
typical sound of the ruston 6yda with the chuffing noise,the track frame appeared to be a wide spread judgeing by the gap beetween the sprocket and track pads,its not as bad taking them off as to loading them because as you will know some times the cab lock would jump out and she would slew uncontrolably on her own.i can remember when barry had a 38-rb some years ago it was being loaded in llanelli and it was up on the bed then it decided to go for a little swing as it always carried full ballast it slipped off the trailer with the ballast weight virtually touching the road and ripping the side rave girder off the king trailer,navvies are safe in the right hands.
regards graham.

[v8detroit]

This Fiat-Hitachi EX355 was delivered to our site last week, it had some bad Hydraulic oil & diesel leaks which had made the low loader bed very wet, as the driver tracked forward the machine slipped over the side!! This incident could of been a lot worse!!

thats not a big deal you would be suprised what a machine can do on one track.i allways load my own trailer because some
machine drivers get very funny when it comes to loading machines .