Posted by the tractor vet on March 14, 2008 at 08:00:34 from (76.212.237.46):
In Reply to: Smart Old Guy posted by Ian Jones, Nanaimo, Canad on March 14, 2008 at 04:35:53:
Back in the mid 80's i was farming a farm out in the middle of nowhere 0n a back dirt and gravel road that had and old covered bridge that was a real pain in the donkey as it was posted at 3 ton the school bus would cross it but only after it would make the kids get off and it would cross the bridge the the kids would walk across and get back on , the township trucks would cross it and i wold ease my 706 across it it was just wide enough for the disk to get thru . For the haybine or bailer ya had to make the long drive and come in from the other way that was and extra 18 miles out around . Well a coal co. moved in up the dirt road about a mile and a half from the bridge and started strippen back up in one of old cuts and had to take the coal out the long way , they tryed to get the county to put in a new max tonnage bridge inso they would only have a mile and a half of back road to bond rather then 7 miles . Well one night i was going to go to the farm to mow hay after i had finished up my service calls for the day and as i got close to the farm around 9 that evening the sky was just a glow . As i got to the turn off it was blocked with firetrucks . Seams that someone gave the old bridge a good wash down of diesel fuel and a match . Well the county end up putting in a new million dollar bridge on a 75 cent road . a max tonnage prestresed concrete one. This made it nice for me as the ,lane to the farm was only 100 feet past the bridge and now this made me only a mile off the blacktop and could now haul the grain out easier and get the combine in and hay equipment . The big day came when the new bridge was to set just in time for the harvest , 6 prestressed section weighing in about 65-70000 each , now the trick was to back down and make a turn to the there right just issing the big sycamore back down in to the pasture and on down into the creek then the two big cranes would lift each section and set it . my buddy and i were there for the big day . first Truck Driver pull up the road and starts his back down the hill nice and easy huggs the big old tree and wright down the ramp , perfect . second Truck Driver doest the same almost in the same tracks as the first . I am empressed . Then here come BILLY BIG RIGGER he goes up and gets in his Hairlip duck and the black smoke just rools out the pipe as he pulls up the road grabben gears slams on the brakes jams it in revs. and is shifting his Mack while comming down the hill in 3rd rev. , just misses the tree and what does he do but puts the tractor off in the ditch and plants it , then he trys to spin his way out only maken things worse . Every thing is at a stand still two high dollar cranes setting men standing around noting getting done and only one little Case 350 dozer there with a Winch . Took about half and hour before they even tryed the little Case but they tryed just to pull it all the little Case did was spin. Sidney and i walked over and talked to the arres hole county engineer and i asked him if he wanted me to get that truck up he just laughed at me and my buddy told him that i could do it with what we had on hand there . He said that there was no way that that little old Case could drag that truck out but go ahead and try . One of the loaded trucks just happened to have Three snatch block on it we got them down and layed out and hooked up cable layed out hooded every thing up got on the little toy dozer shoved the blade into the ground as far as it would go and spun the tracks till i had dirt piled up above the tops of the track and hit the winch control , the dozer slid back about two feet and stopped and the truck came out . After we got everything put back in place the first driver got in that truck and got it st in place and unloaded Billy BIG RIGGER just stood there with his tail between his legs . County engineer came up to me and said i can not believe that you could do that with such a small dozer i thought that we would have to cal in atleast two big wrecker if not three and do you know how muck that would have cost the county , just smiled and walked away . Spent tomany years in the Oil Patch draggen rigs and such in out of mud holes
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