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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:52 pm
by msh paving
This was very scary ,kobelco micro on my 7.5 ton tipper went to drive down ramps as usual ,tracking forward not thinking and put bucket down while tracking this took power from one track and flung me around and off the ramps still stayed on machine and ended up in a heap with out and damage to me or machine , i was thinking i was on 3ton macnine that will track and move bucket at same time MSH
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:54 pm
by msh paving
MSH
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:11 pm
by Dave_L
Holy crap MSH, that was a close one there. No second chances!
Handy to have a forklift to hand - I take it this happened in your yard?
PS Nice ramps, I know they ain't cheap, we had our own made at nearly £900/pair!
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:23 pm
by msh paving
it was lucky the forklift was behind the lorry,as i was parked in gateway......,i hardly ever put the micro on the lorry ,this was about 3 years ago and needed a dumper too so took lorry ,my mate was getting other stuff he never saw it happen i guess i fell about 3ft or so was a roadrunner 7.5t,
the ramps i had made from a company called rayalloy 6 years ago they was £1000+vat but they are tested for a 3ton machine MSH
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:50 pm
by dig dug dan
i get the k008 on the back of my truck often, and always go up with the bucket forwards, and drive very slowly.
My mates wont ever load it, and think it's too dodgy, but unless you rush and don't think about things, its fine.
Where is the other ramp in this picture. It looks like you are coming down one ramp!
Expanding tracks also make a difference
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:13 pm
by msh paving
Took one ramp away to get forks in close........MSH
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:18 pm
by GB_Groundworks
i have rolled our 1.2 ton yanmar a few times, nothing serious working with ditching bucket on at full offset span round and the weight of the clay taken it over onto the arm then clearing a ditch track fell in ditch and rolled onto the bank only at a 45 degree. i like our bigger machines more stable haha.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:51 pm
by dig dug dan
a mate of mine drove his 1.5 tonner onto a skip to try and get as much muck in it as possible, and fell off it. machine was bent, luckily he was ok.
I also knew a plant hire guy who tried to load a digger on his lorry with only one track on it, and the machine fell off, trapping his leg underneath. Needless to say his leg was badly broken, and the fire brigade were needed. not good
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:18 pm
by Tommy
I was working for a well known Grounds maintnance company a few years back. Working on a row of old folks bungalows alongside a dual carriageway.
There was some fella's with a 1.5 tonner digging a trench in the inside lane.
I go round the back of the bungalows, and come back minutes later...
...3 fellas scratching chins, with one track of the mini in the trench, apparently they'd let the young lad track it back to their trailer, and got a bit too close to the edge.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:49 pm
by GB_Groundworks
when i did that as mentioned above i couldn't get it out, no matter how much pushing and slewing i tried with it. luckily had our 8 ton on site that apparently can only lift 500kg but lifted the 1.2 ton yanmar no probs.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:06 pm
by Dave_L
I should hope so too Giles!
Our 5 ton machine lifts dumpy bags off wagons etc, unofficially of course!
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:37 am
by GB_Groundworks
everything now is written down to safe working load of 1 ton. i was in the quarry the other day having a go on their 85 ton cat and noticed it had swl of a ton on the stick even though each bucket full of rock ways like 11 tons haha.
in the spirit of things falling over
our little ford was on our ramp outside the workshop waiting for a new front drive shaft for the 4wd went out for the day, came back and it was lay on its side with everything pouring out of it.
Gi
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:32 pm
by Dave_L
No pictures Giles!
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:22 pm
by GB_Groundworks
they worked before erm... bloody google web albums haha
try again
back to old faithful flickr for pitures, tractor had its bucket down and transport box both down flat on the concrete and it still managed to somehow tip over.
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:30 am
by Amogen
GB_Groundworks wrote:are they working as i can see them now?
Nope..... 