Stories like this raise the hair on the back of my neck. Luckily you didn’t decide to try to stop it from behind. I’ve heard of at least one guy here who tried to stop their truck (maybe he left it in neutral) from hitting the dock wall. You’re REALLY not that strong people! Guy got crushed to death. A few years ago a guy in my yard got run over by a train trailer he was underneath after he unhooked it. Dead. I’ve nearly crushed myself handling one ton skids (freight) with a pump truck in my trailer on a slight slope and I know a guy who actually did it and had to spend some time off to recoup.
If you’ve gone so far as to make the mistake, just get out of the way before you hurt yourself.
Live another day to watch some bikini fashion shows!
Yeah…I’m gonna join this choir. The father of my wife’s best friend died at the boat ramp.
He had not put the handbrake on, he was known to be sloppy about it. The truck rolled downhill when he was between it and the trailer.
The trailer jackknifed, caught him somewhere around the chest / stomach area and pinned him, prevented him from drawing breath. He died of asphyxiation.
Great guy, really tragic, but as they say - play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Don’t be like that guy!
I get where you’re coming from @Bearhedge but most of us are not used to “playing” with heavy equipment. The “stupid games” part happens when us weekend warriors try to do so.
This is the thing working with bigger kit. Having to re-evaluate what you can and should do.
Since I’ve started to acquire some heavier equipment this is something I’m very aware of. It’s so easy to get out of your depth. I don’t muckspread on the steeper fields for that reason, it’s just not worth it.
You are absolutely right, I should have just made sure I was out of the way and not in the way.
The difficulty is re-training your brain. In the same way that if you drop a chopping knife, not trying to catch it.
A colleague who is a climber was telling me about being roped up, walking along a knife edge ridge. If you slip off/fall, your buddy is supposed to jump off the other side to counter balance, otherwise you both die. He saw this happen on an expedition. The guy fell off, his rope buddy tried to catch the rope and stop his fall, they both perished.
Here is another of ave’ s vids, I think @Victork2 and @schurem might find it fun, with their predilection for the strange things hooked on the back of various vehicles… as before a bit nsfw in the language department … but still funny
That hit the nail right on the head for me. I spent all farking day today and 200ish euros fixing a tile job the old man had badly botched while I was down with a bad back.
First thing the motherlover did when I took back the reins is give me the numbers of the two clients he had during that time with the message “contact them, they want things”.
He never should have taken those jobs as on neither did he and the boys deliver the precision needed for that style of yard.
