How NOT to unload a bulldozer from a flatbed...Graphic Pics

[scumdog]

So are we lead to beleive that...

1...This machine was unloaded by the 'guy' underneath?
2...The driver of this machine, unloaded it in a forward motion, not reverse.
3...That this machine did in fact, go beyond perpendicular? (the only way it could end up like it did)
4... To get this machine beyond perpendicular, would be a task on it is own, you would need a crain and chains (I note those two things are present)
5... It only squashed his head?

A very very well orchestrated Asian OSH scene.

I wonder what the bloke that played the 'dead guy' got paid??

And how does he get a helmet to fit??

[R6_kid:Me]

epic fail???

Must have been a fair bit of gene-o-kleen in the air that day.

[Forest]

I think you're right - I can't see how it could have rolled all the way over with no sign of any damage to the front or rear.

I think he was reversing off the back of the trailer, onto the wharf.

When the CoG went over the back of the trailer the tractor would have done a sudden and dramatic backwards roll. This is consistent with the major damage to the top of the bulldozer which is shown in picture 4.

[bully]

your spose to put blocks down because there are no ramps, there blocks were pittafull! if it had the weight of the blade on it he would have been ok, but seen as no blade backing it off,too smaller blocks creating a gap big enough to roll it backwards upside down.
moral of the story, if you have no blade on, at least get decent ramps.

[tri boy]

Possibly, the dozer was being loaded onto the trailer, rather than off.
This could explain the end over end, as a bit too much throttle with no blade up front to counter balance it could roll it. The timber used to raise the meet point of ground-trailer was a pathetic effort that probably had alot to do with the out come.
Re gruesome safety images. They DO work. Especially the eye protection ones. But unfortunately there are muppets who think they know better.
I feel sorry for the deceased. He went to work alive, and went home in a box.

[tri boy]

I think he was reversing off the back of the trailer, onto the wharf.

When the CoG went over the back of the trailer the tractor would have done a sudden and dramatic backwards roll. This is consistent with the major damage to the top of the bulldozer which is shown in picture 4.

A rear roll over is possible if the operator was using the inching pedal incorrectly. Possibly he "Angled" the tranmission. But if done in low, the drive would not allow it to free wheel.

[Headbanger]

I love the way this place is populated by experts on everything.

Makes me wonder how many people so stuffed with superior knowledge have ever driven a Dozer, Let alone loaded or unloaded one, or Unloaded one that hadn't yet had its rops/fops, counterweight or arms/blade attached.

[tri boy]

Who are you referring to headbanger?
Open grizzles like that leave you appearing as a know all yourself.
As for me, Mining, and heavy mechanical applications allows me put forward some reasonable comments.
How bout you?
By the way, you do not "drive" any earthmoving equipment.
You operate it. A little bit of knowledge passed to you from me.

[FlangMasterJ]

I had a TONKA truck as a kid.

[Headbanger]

I wasn't disputing anyones claims at driving any machinery, Only peoples claims that it was a setup. There is simply not enough information in the photos for such a claim, Hence I was asking what peoples background was to support that view.

For what its worth I have spent the better part of the last 20 years driving everything from Bobcats up top 50t excavators, Including the aforementioned bulldozers, as well as a few more obscure bits of gear.

Nowadays I don't drive the gear so much but I do train and supervise others, I'm also involved in the safety requirements/configuration of our gear, and do the investigations and reports on incidents at work.

But hey, Thanks for the little bit of "knowledge"passed on from you to me, I'll be certain to let out a little chuckle the next time I tell someone to go drive the nearest machine.

Now, I'm not trying to be a know it all, But I know enough not to make silly claims based on a couple of pictures.

[Coyote]

And the driver STILL has more brains than a lot of my 'clients'

They'd have to be a bit off in the head to want to pay you for sex.

Only in the force for the uniform

(p/t)

[bully]

yer, its actually a track type skider.... check it out, lol. normally a track type tractor(bulldozer) has the drive motor towards the rear more rather than about centre.
yes, he could have been putting it on rather than unloading.
inching pedal, interesting, iv allways called it a deaccelarator.
could be a term used overseas somewere. lol, funnys.

[FJRider]

And going by the fact the writing on the crane, and the ambulance. And the colour of the police uniforms, it is Singapore, not China. I would have guessed they were loading, rather than unloading.

[Patch]

Hence I was asking what peoples background was to support that view

they're all experts on KB.


It ain't that difficult to spot who knows they're on about and who just posts random acts of dribble.


driving a dozer - funny

[Mikkel]

Poor fella - at least with head trauma on that scale it would have been over pretty quickly. Would have been nasty for the "clean-up-crew" though and I'm not guessing at an open-casket funeral either.

Dunno anything about bulldozers - but I have seen enough incredible stuff over the years to even consider that there a setup.