unimog Close Call

[Tom D]

Well our Ducker just fell off the front of the mog! Two bolts sheared and luckily the other two just bent, so the hopper just skidded along the road a bit. Could have been very nasty... Managed to lift it back up with the valtra and then hold it in place with a ratchet strap to limp home.. if the front had dug in and broke the other two bolts it would have gone right under the mog, I shudder to think of the damage that might have done...

[Steve Bullman]

Crikey.  How many bolts actually hold it on then?

[Tom D]

only 4! It wasn't the Din Plate that came off the mog, it was the chipper body that came off its carriage. So on a TP / Ducker there are 4 bolts under the flywheel housing that hold it onto what ever chassis its on, road tow, pto etc, or in our case the Ducker din plate mount. 2 of them sheared and the whole thing fell forwards. Luckily the pto shaft just slid off on the mog end, fingers crossed the front PTO box is ok, it looks fine..

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Nightmare!  Didn't know quite what you meant by Ducker but kinda got the idea from reading on...

 

Any pics (or is it still too raw?)

[eggsarascal]

10 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Nightmare!  Didn't know quite what you meant by Ducker but kinda got the idea from reading on...

 

Any pics (or is it still too raw?)

Call me old fashioned, but I wouldn't be posting pictures of it falling off on the road.

 

I lost a metal cage off the back of a 7.5 tonner many years ago, it bounced over the car behind me on the M6 and landed in the central reserve...... Phew.....

Edited July 29, 2017 by eggsarascal

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

10 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Call me old fashioned, but I wouldn't be posting pictures of it falling off on the road.

 

I lost a metal cage off the back of a 7.5 tonner many years ago, it bounced over the car behind me on the M6 and landed in the central reserve...... Phew.....

You're old fashioned! (nothing wrong with that mind!)

 

I didn't mean the incident, I meant the mounting failure.  

 

It was only out of interest...

[Tom D]

I'll stick them up on monday when we get the gas axe on it.