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Ah onetrack , it ain't a simple corner ol'mate . Supprised it doesn't happen more often . Very step pull up to that corner and you have to stick the boot in to climb it laden , main street , cars trying to beat every one , bad camber , and then to top it all off after doing that hard right hander , imediately have to do a hard left hander . Report I had heard was that truck was not travelling fast but oviously should have been going slower ! >

?? re truck roll overs

There where 4 different ones around Victoria in the last couple of days that made the radio news, one on the black spur, one in Fitgerald Road Laverton, one at Geelong and the one at Kurrumburra, Is it the drivers or is there a wider problem ?? maybe like air bag suspension.

Trevor

Rocky
Gudday M8

RE: maybe like air bag

me thinkz U got it in one

There was one on the beef rd this week, a nice new triple combination. The last 2 decided they wanted to take a walk while the the first and the cab declined the offer. So in their stuborness the final 2 dedided to lay down in protest! I didnt see it but the bloke I work with passed it, hopefully he grabbed me some pics.

Daninmky

SMore


Tangle Toes


Freight Brokers.......is right


Eye can see clearly now


A Mars a day helps U work less n play
Cya
[ch9786]

Just heard a small noise

Salooooon Car Browny
Gudday M8

Told Yar to back off n get u're boot out of it
now th@ FU iz cum n outa u're beer money
LOL
May need the realy big F Hammar

if th@ twaz in a ship n the donk failed could make for sum interestn times
especially near coast lines

Any more info on it
Cya
[ch9786]

Fixing buggered ships engines is a pretty interesting and specialised game. Tatra should be able to tell us a lot more, he's been there and done that.
There's no pulling the donk out, they're too big and heavy to come out. They fix them in-situ, and I've read about a crowd that specialised in it, and there were some amazing fixes amongst their stories.
With the one above, you'd have to hope the crank didn't get a twist in it. If it did, I reckon they'd be scrapping the ship. Some of those cranks weigh 300 tonnes, in engines that weigh 2500 tonnes.
With smaller engines, they have to cut holes in the deck or side to get components such as crankshafts in. With the biggest engines, there's no way of even lifting the engine, let alone trying to get a crank into the engine room.
Surprisingly, piston replacement at sea is common, and most ships carry at least one spare piston on board.

Here's a video of a small crank replacement going in. This crank must only be about 15-20 tons.

vimeo.com/10562370

most of these
Will buff right out


RSup



I Said ........."Whoooa"



Only the brown Chemical spill here



Hope this dont mean a shortage of supplies
for the boys @ Yass in a Months time

LOL


Cya

[ch9786]

Was heading North up the Hume on Friday Afternoon and saw a wrecker an angle in the South Bound Lane around Benalla.

A quick look as we went past showed a B-Double Pan on it side in a field about 75 meters from the road. it was parallel to the road about 1/2 way along a long (couple of km) straight stretch.
The wrecker was on an angle to the road and I noticed further down there were temporary speed restriction signs up with police cars blocking the left hand lane. About 10 minutes up the road we passed another wrecker heading south (to help with the recovery?)

I couldn't get much more detail due to the police cars etc blocking the south bound lane and trying to avoid people veering into my lane as they were looking at it rather than where they were going. It didn't make the media so I wonder if anyone here knew anything?