Fings wot broke

[MATTMOSS]

Another

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I'm hopeless attaching these pictures...

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More pics

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Looks like the metal chassis has become fatigued? Three main box sections sheered.

[MATTMOSS]

I think it was just the drive shaft holding it together in the end.

[Johny Walker]

put it on twinn axels,

[aspenarb]

I think it was just the drive shaft holding it together in the end.

 

Matt did you just find it like that after getting back to the yard or did it happen on site?

 

Bob

[treequip]

Matt did you just find it like that after getting back to the yard or did it happen on site?

 

Bob

 

Or better yet, why didn't someone spot it while is was still a crack.

 

You would expect the Council to have daily inspection records for its HGV fleet, its what the road haulage industry is required to do on a daily basis. Its also not the first time something like this has happened to this particular council.

 

As an industry tree surgery tends to forget that like it or not, we are part of road haulage. Tree surgery tends to regard the tree work as the be all and end all and often treats its vehicles as nothing more than a means to get men and saws to a tree.

 

Drive slow on those speed bumps folks

[MATTMOSS]

Matt did you just find it like that after getting back to the yard or did it happen on site?

 

Bob

 

Hi Bob,

 

One of my lads who was driving the wagon heard it crack driving out of the yard.

I suspect it had a partial stress crack in one of the beams of the chassis, resulting in the catastrophic failure of the others.

The many speed humps around here have probably contributed to the failure, this is a very heavy machine however, i wouldnt have expected this to happen?

regards Matt

[TTP]

You can see in the pictures the bottom half of the box section is rusty so it's been split for a while. It's only the top side that has been freshly sheered.