Watch where you are reversing!!

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13 years 1 month ago #48135 by ray

Watch where you are reversing!! was created by ray

I Just received these pics and I suppose the motto is to watch out behind you when reversing.

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I used to own 6 x Michigan 475 loaders (86 tonnes and 9.5 cu. mt. buckets) .. and one dope I had working for me, backed right into one of my Holden utes, one day.

The ute was about 100M behind him, yet he was so intent on checking his levelling workmanship, that he backed up and up without looking, for that 100M .. and only stopped, when he felt a bump!

That "bump" was the rear wheels of the loader riding up the side of the ute!
He buggered it completely .. it was scrap, with two dirty great wheel indentations nearly a metre deep, in the front of the cab and the side of the ute .. :'(
The underside of the loader at the rear, was higher than a Holden ute cab, so the rear of the loader went right over the roof, and the wheels were the first thing to hit the ute.

Luckily it was a 15 yr old ute with 200,000 kms on the clock, so it wasn't a great loss. However, this bloke certainly wasn't in line for any promotion, and he was one of the first to go, when it came time to reduce the workforce.

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