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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:19:01 PM EDT
Ouch!
That had to have been a fun ride while it lasted.        |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:20:24 PM EDT
[#1]
I got a buddy who will love this.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:22:29 PM EDT
[#2]
Do they have Chiropractors for tractors?
Damn but that one needs an "adjustment". 
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:25:44 PM EDT
[#3]
Oh dear....
Thats what 50-70,000 dollars down the drain.. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:27:41 PM EDT
[#4]
That looks like some kind of fucked up modern art.
 Hope the driver faired better than the equipment.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:29:23 PM EDT
[#5]
I know nothing about tractors.
By road gear does that mean he was going to fast and then dropped the bucket? |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:29:49 PM EDT
[#6]
I am shamelessly stealing those for safety training at work.
96Ag |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:30:42 PM EDT
[#7]
IBTFPC
In Before The FAIL Photo Chop |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:31:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:32:28 PM EDT
[#9]
Good thing he didn't do that in a John Deere, otherwise he might of cracked the Earth's crust, or caused an earthquake.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:33:12 PM EDT
[#10]
I have seen this happen with backhoes before, the machine is a total loss.
On a side note, I feel sorry for the guy that has to do the recovery for the insurance company. I am in the towing and recovery buisiness, and that looks to be a huge PIA, as well as a huge recovery bill. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:33:52 PM EDT
[#11]
That's one hell of a emergency brake !
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:33:57 PM EDT
[#12]
Probably in the $200k range i would say. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:37:41 PM EDT
[#13]
I'd guess more than that. New tractors can run upwards of $120-200,000. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:41:18 PM EDT
[#14]
Sucks to be him........
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:43:32 PM EDT
[#15]
Without knowing the fact's. I would guess that the Operator had the bucket way too close to the surface. Then got to bouncing and it dug into the surface and then you see the outcome. 20 years operating Heavy Equipment here including Front-End Loaders. I know better but this farmer or his hired hand did not. I know it's a Tractor, not a true Front-End Loader. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:45:07 PM EDT
[#16]
that will not buff out!
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:46:53 PM EDT
[#17]
Nope.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:48:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:49:09 PM EDT
[#19]
Amazing it didn't continue to roll over onto the cab.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:50:45 PM EDT
[#20]
doesnt matter.. it was subsidized anyway 
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:51:21 PM EDT
[#21]
I was thinking the same thing. It couldn't have missed doing it by very much. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:51:23 PM EDT
[#22]
Actually I think the story behind this one is that the guy was pulling it home from the stealership and had some sort of jury rigged hitch setup on his trailer, the hitch came undone and dug into the road, the trailer stopped and the tractor wasn't tied down well enough if at all. You can see where the hitch plowed into the road in a couple of the pics. Tractor goes cruisin off the front of the trailer, bucket digs in, voila instant compact tractor cube.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:55:04 PM EDT
[#23]
maybe they are designed that way 
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:56:06 PM EDT
[#24]
 now that would SUCK!!!! |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 1:56:22 PM EDT
[#25]
It is hard to tell from the pics but there is some kind of bar/hitch on the back of the tractor.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 2:22:07 PM EDT
[#26]
Dang, then someone was a shity Truck Driver. 
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Posted: 12/3/2007 2:29:35 PM EDT
[#27]
Looks like a design problem. I work on heavy equipment. Every manual Ive read says in case of brake failure to lower bucket onto the ground.
Or its a transformer that got stuck. 
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Posted: 12/3/2007 5:36:07 PM EDT
[#28]
All I know is, I'm glad I'm not the one who has to explain this one to the insurance company.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 5:40:53 PM EDT
[#29]
Tag for home.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 5:45:48 PM EDT
[#30]
It sure would have been awesome to see that in super-slow-mo.
CJ |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 5:48:08 PM EDT
[#31]
Opitmus Sub-Prime !
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Posted: 12/3/2007 5:56:22 PM EDT
[#32]
Biggest bucket of FAIL I've ever seen!
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Posted: 12/3/2007 6:01:08 PM EDT
[#33]
 what a waste of tractor.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 6:01:46 PM EDT
[#34]
wow
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Posted: 12/3/2007 6:19:56 PM EDT
[#35]
somebody fucked up big time
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Posted: 12/3/2007 6:25:35 PM EDT
[#36]
The shitty part would be feeling the trailer come unhooked and looking in the rearview mirror only to see a tractor flying at you
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Posted: 12/3/2007 6:31:24 PM EDT
[#37]
looking at the pics, your version makes sense |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 6:34:34 PM EDT
[#38]
I think the tractor was towing the trailer.
The bucket was probably down low, and in the dump position. The tractor bounced, the bucket hit the ground, and dug in. The trailer kept going, even though the tractor came to an almost instantaneous stop. The tractor frame started bending. As the tractor tires hit each other, the hitch gave way................. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:36:47 PM EDT
[#39]
I suspect you know more than a little about Heavy Equipment..
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:39:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:46:07 PM EDT
[#41]
Looks like that blue Ford Super Duty with the 5th wheel was the tow vehicle. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:46:15 PM EDT
[#42]
I know almost nothing. I do know about crashes. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:46:18 PM EDT
[#43]
Huh.
I lived across the street where that tractor was manufactured. |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:49:23 PM EDT
[#44]
Then you do know something.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:51:11 PM EDT
[#45]
Thats the way it looks to me also
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Posted: 12/3/2007 9:59:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2007 10:13:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2007 10:21:22 PM EDT
[#48]
That's a big bucket of, "Aww, fuck!" right there.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 10:31:27 PM EDT
[#49]
Wow. And I thought my nearly flipping a Bobcat over backwards while driving up a steep hill was bad.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 10:42:17 PM EDT
[#50]
You guys are REALLY slow tonight.
AHEM!!! See pic 6 I'd hit it - like a playing card on bike spokes, like a stick on a picket fence, like a riding crop on a racehorse, like.... |
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