Posted by NCWayne on July 16, 2014 at 19:26:00 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Close escapes posted by Bernie/MA on July 16, 2014 at 15:57:10:
Came close to getting crushed between the track frame off of a D9G and the main part of the tractor about 5 years ago. The track frame had gotten into a bind, and unknown to any of us, the excavator being used to sit the frame in place had a malfunction in one of the pilot valves and was causing the boom to lift very slowly until it had a lot of tension on the frame. When I crawled between the frame and the machine to give the bottle jack holding the hard bar a few strokes, those few strokes broke the bind and I heard a pop. I went to back stepping and was maybe 5 feet from the end of the frame when it jumped about 5 feet in the air, hit the side of the machine several times >>>>>>where my head had been about 3 seconds earlier<<<<<<<, and then set back down on the ground. We all somewhat laugh about it now due to the look on the excavator operators face, but at the time it scared the crap out of me.
There were others over the years where I could have been hurt, but this was the closest I have ever been to actually being killed.
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