I-16 shut down between Macon and Savannah

[gunsguitars]

BTW, local truckers say the driver is telling everyone his wife accidentally hit the "raise button" while going down on him. I personally wouldn't have told that, but having been a trucker at one time, I guess that explanation is preferable to "I am such a dumbass I didn't notice my trailer in dump mode while driving down the interstate"!

 

[4ssss]

You can't raise the bed unless the PTO is engaged. You can't say you didn't know the PTO was engaged because you'd have to deaf as a doornail not to hear it screaming.

 

[bilgerat]

The bridge is already demolished, as soon as they clean up the debris they will reopen 16 and replace the bridge one side at a time. it will be a bottle neck for a year with traffic diverted down down to one lane

 

[Gaffer1968]

You can't raise the bed unless the PTO is engaged. You can't say you didn't know the PTO was engaged because you'd have to deaf as a doornail not to hear it screaming.

ANYTHING - any safeguard, stop or whatever can be rewired. It all depends on how much of an OSHA nuisance it is. I have two lawn tractors built 25 years apart. Both have hydraulic, continuously-variable transmissions, but the newer one has a cut-out safety switch that forces you to stop and reposition the ignition switch to go into reverse. I pulled out all that crap because my 1994 tractor works just fine without it. All it takes is know how...

 

[Gaffer1968]

The bridge is already demolished, as soon as they clean up the debris they will reopen 16 and replace the bridge one side at a time. it will be a bottle neck for a year with traffic diverted down down to one lane

One of the videos said they'd demolish it within a couple of weekends....ordering and replacing the steel? A different matter...

 

[4ssss]

ANYTHING - any safeguard, stop or whatever can be rewired. It all depends on how much of an OSHA nuisance it is. I have two lawn tractors built 25 years apart. Both have hydraulic, continuously-variable transmissions, but the newer one has a cut-out safety switch that forces you to stop and reposition the ignition switch to go into reverse. I pulled out all that crap because my 1994 tractor works just fine without it. All it takes is know how...

PTO's in dump buckets are engaged by pulling a knob on the dashboard with a cable to the PTO that engages a chain driven pump to the piston. There's nothing to get around.

 

[rbstern]

Why not just make the same dumb ass kamikaze another raised dump bed in from the other side and knock it back square? Problem solved!

I was gonna suggest getting one fo the local farmers with a 100hp tractor and a long chain...just yank that puppy back into position and call it good.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

SERIOUS COMMENT: I know I'm a lawyer, not an engineer, but I find it hard to believe that a modern bridge --which generally just rests on its supports without being mechanically bolted to them-- could not be slid back into the correct position.


NOT SO MUCH:
If the highway department wanted to knock the bridge deck back into position,
try doing it the same way it was knocked out of position-- by taking a well-used $75,000 tractor-trailer sized dump truck loaded with debris, and wiring it to drive by remote control, and ram it!!
I think the DOT could sell the film rights to that, and make enough money to pay for the entire project.

This could be a pay-per-view opportunity!

 

[T. May]

We’re in St. Simons now. Have to find another way back home.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

On the udder hand,
there are too many truck crash videos available to watch free on the Internet
to expect a good return on investment to charge a fee to watch one
on pay-per-view.
example: