[AT] Speaking of Stuck

[Dan Glass]

I was building an addition on my house and we were pouring the concrete 
basement floor.  I told the concrete truck driver to stay close to the 
house or he might get stuck.  The first truck did and it went fine.  The 
driver of the second truck informs me that you cannot get one of those 
big concrete trucks stuck and ignored me. He had no reason to go where 
he did but he proved you could get one of those truck stuck with 12 
yards of concrete inside.  He called the office and they sent another 
big concrete truck but this one was filled with gravel.  They hooked up 
big chains and tried to pull it out but it didn't even make it wiggle.  
They gave up and called a very big wrecker that hooked up a winch to it 
and after several minutes burned up the winch. This time they called for 
a gigantic wrecker and said it would either pull the concrete truck out 
or break it into two pieces. When they started pulling it out the 
concrete truck twisted in the middle and I thought it was going to break 
apart but it finally started to pull it out. Since a couple of hours had 
lapsed I told the concrete company I didn't want the concrete in that 
truck because it was starting to set up.  The concrete truck with the 
gravel dumped the gravel in my driveway and they asked me how I wanted 
to pay for the gravel and the wrecker.  The wrecker was $500. I said I 
would rather they pay for it since I told the driver not to go there and 
the gravel would help repair the damage they had done.  They agreed and 
sent out another concrete truck to finish the job.  I don't know what 
happened to the driver.  He might have learned several lessons.


On 12/15/2016 9:11 PM, Thomas O Mehrkam wrote:
> I learned one thing early on in the Seismic business.  If the land owner
> says you will get stuck or that bull is bad you are better off listening
> to him.  He speaks from experience. :-}
>
> On 12/15/2016 1:43 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> LOL,  Don't you just love it!
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Glass
>> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 12:54 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: [AT] Speaking of Stuck
>>
>> The county asked me if they could turn their road grader around on my
>> property.  I said they had my permission but I didn't recommend it
>> because they would get stuck.  They said they wouldn't get stuck and
>> they drove the road grader off the road to turn around and it sunk up to
>> the cab.  It had a 12 ft. blade on it and you couldn't even see the
>> wheels.  They had to go get two d8 cat's to pull it out.
>>
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