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  • i would just grabbed a seat by my truck and let the people who guided me there pull out my truck then once out discharge the concrete then send em the bill for repairs in the mail.

  • @ChoonDSW

    I think that's probably pretty close to what happened here.

  • Concrete was still usable? There's no time limit on that mix? Most contracts I deal with have specific time limits. I'll bet that crap was starting to set unless it was a 3 bag mix...lol

  • dip shit ..

  • "Hello Boss?" I have to report an, uh, AWW SHIT!

  • If the driver of the stuck truck had put down the Bridgemaster rear axle at full hydraulic power two loaded trucks could have pulled him out easily. I have been stuck much worse than that and was pulled out by two loaded mixers. These trucks have extremely low gear ratios in the off road gears. With a lot of throttle they only pull about one to two MPH in Lo-Lo gear. We don't need no stinkin' wreckers we got trucks!!!

  • @gunslinger5854

    These trucks haul 10.4 cubic metres. The tandem drive axles have 37,000 kilos on them with the booster up, or 81,000 lb. for you yanks. The hole is actually a deep trench that had a steel plate incorrectly place over it. The weight of the truck is wedged on the trench. They did a great job getting it out safely. Pulling with loaded trucks would have caused more damage with out a doubt. Broken axles or rerar ends for sure.

  • a Holmes 1801 would have pulled it out by itself

  • it is the road plate layers problem at this point... What were they thinking???

  • Smart thing to do is unload thetruck into a dumster and pull it out with another loaded truck I would have never ordered a tow truck as long as the mixer had power. The load of concrete cost a lot less than a pair of tires rims and all the tow trucks.

  • @cdltpx

    Good point, except that it never could have been pulled out without the boom holding the weight on the left side of the truck. What the camera did not show was that the left rear wheels were essentially wedged against the side of the trench, without any real support under them. They would have snagged on coming forward, and probably would have been torn off on just a straight pull from another truck.

    They were going to dump the concrete out; I don't know whey they didn't.

  • @kimchiman1000 We use to back our trucks as far as we could we would bury the axles then unload the truck after unloaded we would use 2 loaded trucks to pull out the stuck truck. The stuck truck would not just sit there there was a driver in the truck with transmission in lowest gear doing his best to walk it out. Sure that axle was buried but it would have walked out in its lowest gear being yanked out by another loaded truck. In the south they would do this to avoid paying for a pump truck.

  • @cdltpx

    Yeah, I got that. But this one didn't have anything UNDER the left wheels; they were wedged tight against the side of the trench (and the asphalt), not just sunk into dirt or muck.

    Maybe your way would have worked, but it sure didn't look that way at the time.

    Peace, out.

  • @kimchiman1000 Best way to prevent further damage to the truck is just to let the professionals handle it. If you watch after the video there are some still photos. It looks like they did unload the truck via a loader. Our company has there own wench trucks and will use loaded dump trucks to pull us out. We do not use outside tow trucks or allow machinery on the job to pull us out.

  • @cdltpx He can't unload the truck .When the drum starts to turn to unload it might shake to much and make a bad day worse .

  • @lhr1701 I was a ready mix driver the load would have come out. We have gotten trucks stuck up to their axles we unload them get a loaded truck to pull them out. We never used a pump truck in Ms. We would back the trucks up as fast as we could till we got stuck they would then build ramps from where the trucks were stuck or wheelbarrow the load to the site we did this umpteen times. Started trucking in 87 been around a few trucks. In Ca they use a pump truck to place concrete for sidewalks.

  • @cdltpx Here in NYC they use pumps of all kinds . From massive ones that can place cement over 200 feet , to tow behind pumps that you can use to pump into basements . Anyway This guy had nothing underneath him . And I think they did the right thing . He could have fallen deeper into that hole . If they would have tried to unload then cowboy it out .

  • holy twin steer loaded???? lafarge dont exist here anymore. got bought out by dexters construction

  • theres no way that truck weights that much

  • I no how this guy feels ,do everthing you can for the customer , they they write you up for it . I did push the envelope when i use to drive . Anybody no if ( DRIVERCAM ) got this on tape

  • omg the foden 6x6 im learning to drive for the army will pull that out straight away

  • whoever put the roadplates down "SACKED"

  • i dirve a 10 yard mixer and loaded its 71,000......96,000 seems hard to believe.....

  • There was a scary 'pop' sound and the tow truck jumped a little bit at about 4:00. Wild stuff to do this for a living. Cool vid.

  • woulda took o'hare 7 hrs....

  • Nice Job Al ,, kep up the great work ,cause wimpy wouldnt be handling that one lol ...one day il drive a real Wrecker lol

  • holmes 440 to the rescue????????yeeehaaaa

  • Y'know, I didn't actually look at what was on that truck, but I seem to remember Holmes 440s being a lot smaller, and mounted on one ton trucks. Haven't seen one in many years, mind you.

    But then again, it's not my line of work, so what do I know...

  • @kimchiman1000 at 3:52 the v100 heavy is hooked in and starts to load the suspetion but he still doesnt have the outriggers down. is that wrecker such a beast it doesnt need them or is the crowd gathering around Al have him nervous enough to forget. i cant tell....maybe he puts them down after the camera moves away.

  • @WYZAGUY The tri axle is a Vulcan v100 the other is a Century something something....

  • if i was the driver of that truck, i would've been pissed.

  • Nice bit of film. Real life footage. The real thing! Nobody hurt. J.

  • Was that the only access in? I see that they have the boom pump set up, how long did it take to retrieve the truck? (I have many questions lol)

  • Wow, they were lucky!  That is a deep hole.

  • They say in the video it weighs 96k#, which means it's gotta be over 10 yards. And the drum's not turning! So when he gets out the fun REALLY starts!

  • Good footage - what are those wheels mounted high on the rear of the truck for?

  • xtra support when the truck is fully loaded, you can lower them down hydraulically

  • Wheelie bar.

  • 9 m3

  • That Drums a bit longer guys...13...14 cy

  • That truck weights way more than 10 tons and see the 2 front axles alot more weight and this truck holds more than 10 yards

  • why men works on raining day,,,

    better wait until dry nice sunny day then working on it

  • 96,000 lbs? a yard weighs 4400 lbs and a normal truck holds 10 yards thats 24 tons plus the truck which i dont know. id guess around 10 tons? so that comes out to around 64,000 lbs totall weight here

  • Wrong! That truck easily weighs 50,000lbs. My Oshkosh had an empty weight of 41,000lbs with a CLEAN drum, and had less axels, and only 2 tires/wheels on the tag trailer.

    Any drivers wish to comment?

  • really? the truck itself weighs that much!? i had no idea what a empty truck weighed

  • What year oshkosh brother that s the ? You probabalyy have a live front end booster I'm assuming being an Oshkosh so I guess thats gonna be some extra weight. I drive 2006 Kenworth Stetter mixer with a dead front end and with a clean barrel and empty water tank I come out to about 29,500 to 30,000 empty so you must have a pretty heavy truck I guess...Wow

  • The description says 96,000 lbs

  • I wouldn't want to haul concrete where you are '08scionFM', because it sounds like you have some stupid drivers around there. It's not brain surgery!!!

  • Just the same for us in the UK they would ask you to put the truck up your ouw arm ?????

  • Looks like a pump truck boom in the back ground maybe only way to get mixer to pump drove a mack booster 4 20 years asked 2 put that pig in some unbelievable spots labourers dont like wheelborrows im a finisher now better $

  • Hooked up my harbor freight 8000k winch and yanked that sucker out!

  • Even if there was a sign that sated that no concrete truck to drive over these road plates they would anyways because they dont want to actually try and do their job correctly. I dont know how many times ive told a driver not to go through an area on site because theyll get stuck, they do anyways and then ive got to reject the load because it had been in the drum for over 90 mins. Those guys kill me!

  • fckn lafarge... good for em'

  • dey must be in canada eh!

  • That we is, eh!

    Or 'Canuckistan' as I usually call it.

  • lower the trailer! pour the load out! stupervisors.

  • damnn i got a change my job to a tow truck driver , they are making the money for only a few hours

  • Ok why would he try to stadle that ditch in the first place, even with the plate metal there i would have told them to pack sand. still it funny as hell

  • I am a lafarge employee in arizona, and I was just wondering about are ZERO accident policy right about now?Are there any other plants on layoff beside's all az.,n.m.?

  • THATS WHAT I CALL A HOT LOAD

  • get a big machine and pull it out

  • Yeah uh 96,000 lbs is WAYYYY off. I dont care if he has a tag axle and two steers. that truck chassis could not weigh more than 36,000 lbs empty. That would mean he had 15 yards of concrete in the drum. (4,000 lbs per yard) Drum is not that big. Besides that would violate ANY states weight regs. Id say more like 70 to 80,000lbs. Still a lot.

  • Okay then.

  • In Canada....twin steer= 20,000/axel=40,000lbs

    tandem=44,000 (with that spread)

    tag=20,000

    total available gross=104,000lbs

  • Ok 104 gross, ill even up my estimate of truck weight to 40,000 still makes 14 yards of concrete. Maybe the camera angles, but really does not look like a 15 yard drum. Looks like a regular 12 yarder which would mean with the drum stopped it would be pouring out on its own unless it was 11 yards or less. or really stiff mud.... 84-88,000 lbs max. Sorry im a little bit anal. lol

  • Maybe the driver was just REEEAAALLLYY overweight?

    (just a thought...)

  • 4,000 lbs. per yard!

  • yeah i was tired that day, it would mean 16 yards not 14 even more unbelievable. or a 12 yard load with a 56000 pound truck (haha no way)

  • @Mixitup2007 yo bro the truck has a 11 metre drum on it, thats Y it has tandem steering and a booster

  • @karebehr

    Sounds about right. I drove for another company Lafarge owned.....these trucks haul 10 cubic metres (1.308 yds per meter. A 10 M3 truck is in fact a 13 yd truck. Not sure of tare weight, but a smaller tandem truck with single steer and no booster back axle commonly wigh in at 12T plus. I would guess at least 16-20 tonnes empty.

    My freind Al is the driver/owner of the green tow truck.

  • How could it weigh 96000 lbs? It has 4 axles each holding 20,000. Thats only 80000. Unless the rear axles are 46000 for the tandems and 40,000 for both front axles. Than thats only 86000.

  • Then there's the tag axle hanging off the rear end. It only comes up when the truck arrives at the job site, or when the truck is not fully loaded.

    My guess is that it would account for the extra weight. All I really know about it is what the driver told me.

  • youd think the driver would know what he was hauling cuz that looks like a 10 yard drum to me and if  it was then i think his weight woulda been around 80,000 pounds

  • wow.. never seen a dual wheeled booster axle

  • It was lucky underneath the steel plates were some steel scaffolding frames. Otherwise the truck might have been completely sunken in. Thanks for sharing.

  • nice sling shot no big deal on the rim nice work.

  • I work in Denver for LaFarge, and I don't remember having a safety message about this one. I bet that was a fun ride!

  • Lets hops they did a risk assessment on getting that truck out of there !!!

  • I used to work for Lafarge, in the states. I still drive a mixer though. I know they use those type of mixers, with two front axles, in Canada, they have a lot stricter road weight requirements.  96000 pounds? That is a lot of weight on a mixer, lol.

  • i drove one too, we called them twin steers, but they were only 79,000 gross , never seen a bridgemaster with 4 wheels on it

  • THEY SHOULD HAVE FILLED THE HOLE

  • I hope the contractor signed the ticket.lol

  • I bet Hans Trained this guy

  • Hans trained him haha poor sean

  • go get the dozer

  • just drive that bitch rite out ahha

  • who got fired that day? :d

  • now that sucks

  • Indeed it did.

  • ..ring ring, Hey boss, uhh I'm gonna be late.

    or..

    ..ring ring Hey boss, uhh I quit and BTW the truck is stuck, later!

  • Those wreckers are too cool! Talk about some serious horsepower.

  • Got to admit american trucks are cool. ;)

  • Never seen tandems on the front end of a conventional cab like that before. Glad the guy didnt lose the concrete because of that.

  • How unfortunate...

  • I'd be SUPER PISSED at the guy who placed the metal plate if I were the driver! And embarrassed if I were the guy who put it in! I don't know if I've ever seen Westerns with two axles on the front! Just a good thing it wasn't wrecked more than what it was!

  • I'm very happy to report that I wasn't the guy ;-)

    We had a similar scenario over a month back, and it took some doing to get the boss to understand that he couldn't have trucks driving over the plates all day delivering to a concrete pour. Some people just don't get it.

  • wow, so many comments! I'm not going to top this. how does the old saying go? "Be quick to listen, not quick to comment"

  • shouldnt drive over those metal plates lol

  • wow thats crazy AL its not a total loss either able to use the load and fix a truck and those tow trucks WOW those are nice

  • WOW thats a lucky break alright only a lil dent and a rim and tire looks much worse by thw qay those tow trucks were monsters !

  • I'd like to know what the axle hanging in the air at the rear of the truck is for too Al.

  • 1. You can bet that those road plates are crossways now, bro! LOL. Should've been from the start.

    2. The axle you see is called a 'tag axle'. It is lowered when the truck is driving en route to a job.

    3. No damage was done to the work in the trench. We were lucky - this time.

    4. I think the truck holds about 11 cubic meters of mix.

  • Funny how it has dual tags! Ours have a single wheel on each end of the tag axle.

  • Never seen a tag axle lift that high before...

    In Europe, dual tire tags are often called "nordic boogie", since it's mostly used in Scandinavia. I think down south, a single tag is "conventional", but up here it's referred to as a "poor mans boogie", since they couldn't afford enough tires...

  • We have Lafarge in the UK too. That looks quite a large truck with the hood at the front. We have eight leggers over here too, but cab over engine. How much concrete will that truck carry? Maybe those road plates should've been across ways on the trench and not length ways lol. Did the truck do any damage to the work in the trench?

  • I believe he was lucky to go with all wheels on the plate - I'd imagine the truck tipping if only one side fell in. On the other hand, one side of the truck might be light enough to stay over ground?

    By the way, it's first time I ever saw a hood truck with 2 front axles. I'd love more pics and vids of those :-)

  • What's the purpose of the axle hanging in the air at the rear of the truck?

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