Stock
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- Location
- The Emerald Kingdom,
as here!I seem to be the only one not to own an excavator. Or a low loader trailer. Or a quad bike. Or a trampoline. Or tattoos. Or rigger boots..
Unsecured excavator on trailer
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Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Simple answer to this.
you're stood in court after your digger fell off. Judge asks if you thought you did all you could to secure the load.
of the answer is yes I used gravity then you're simply wrong
you're stood in court after your digger fell off. Judge asks if you thought you did all you could to secure the load.
of the answer is yes I used gravity then you're simply wrong
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
£100 fine around here if caught without chains.
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
None of you are aware of the horrific incident in Cornwall several years ago when the unsecured back actor of a digger swung out into the road while it was being transported on a lorry.
Several people died, the lorry driver ended up a long term resident in a physciatric hospital and a member of the emergency services called to respond, later committed suicide --he arrived on the scene to find his wife was one of the victims.
No laughing matter
Several people died, the lorry driver ended up a long term resident in a physciatric hospital and a member of the emergency services called to respond, later committed suicide --he arrived on the scene to find his wife was one of the victims.
No laughing matter
It’s already been mentioned and yes I remember
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
If you fudge up bad enough that you are in a position to cowp a digger off a trailer i really doubt some straps or chains are really going to improve the situation
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Sorry. That's an absolutely ridiculous theory
Exactly at least you would only have to explain to the insurance man why your diggers on its side and you need new one and not the tractor and low loader too!!!
Neither the JCB 8065 or the 3 buckets lying against the headboard of the low loader seemed to fall off this morning...
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
So you'd both rather stand in court and explain why you think it's better to not strap a digger on correctly because it saved the trailer?? Seriously???
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Or they would rather the digger slid off the side when they had to jump on the brakes going round a corner.
Read the road ahead tractor and low loader wont stop in a hurry anyway, its not a bloody audi rs3
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
As said a minimum of 3 chains or straps depending on the size of the digger. Don't forget all the buckets, rock hammer etc also need strapped on. One ratchet per strap, no wrapping the tail end of the strap around a rope hook and throwing it across again. I know the boom is between the ramps and it can't go anywhere but it still needs strapped.
Don't think there's anything else but it is 13 years since I was in the plant hire business.
Don't think there's anything else but it is 13 years since I was in the plant hire business.
they also dont like the straps or chains going over the tracks, meant to be through the track frame
ollie989898
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The digger needs to be secured to the trailer. If the trailer goes over it should still have the load attached. I'd be terrified of the bloody digger sliding off the trailer, I've seen them slip about trying to get up on trailers when the tracks have been in the mud and wet. Used to amaze me that a 13 tonner on tracks could slide around in the wet but they do.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
We were told chains through the track frames on steel tracks and straps over the tracks with rubber tracks. In reality everything went over the tracks because the tracks were always full when you went to lift a digger off a site. Most hirers couldn't even manage to leave the buckets in one place never mind leave anything half clean.
steel on steel going up the ramps or steel on mud or steel on damn near anything is totally different to rubber on wood
i've had steel tracked machines move a wee bit too they never tend to go too far though
- Location
- Larne, Northern Ireland
Have you shifted many diggers? Doesnt sound like you have done much with diggers if you are amazed that a 13 tonner can slide around in the wet
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Depends on the rubber, the amount of mud and how wet the wood is. I can remember having to winch a 3 ton rubber tracked digger up wooden ramps.steel on steel going up the ramps or steel on mud or steel on damn near anything is totally different to rubber on wood
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
If it won't stop in a hurry it shouldn't be on the road. As for reading the road what happens when you meet a car overtaking on a corner? Stuff happens, you need to assume the worst could happen, not that it will all be fine.
- Location
- South wales
No helping some people