Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Now THIS is a Bad Day...

By Alan Burkhart

I shot these pics today in Greenwood, LA. I didn't see the incident, but I was told that the guy misjudged a turn and slipped off the road. The trailer (I'm told) broke apart while being pulled from the ditch. He was loaded with about 42,000 pounds of plywood.

In the last images you can see the beginning of the operation to transfer the load to another trailer. A forklift with an extendable boom is used to extract the load while a hydraulic wrecker unit maintains upward pressure on the trailer floor while the plywood is offloaded.
I don't wanna know how much all this cost...









Ya know, I'd really hate to have to call my boss with this story...

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