Oh Deere

These pictures were posted on another site..no info other than that it was in Kay Co in Oklahoma
I'm betting that it would ruin an otherwise good day.

OOPs. He might be paying for a bridge overhaul too.

A little time and common sense (rare these days) would have prevented a big mistake.

I hope they don't tell the owner what the AC dealer told me one time. They broke the windshield on my combine when they were loading it to bring it out to me and brought it anyway. When I called the owner to see what they were going to do,he said "We'd kind of like to see you pay for that.".

finally!! an STS i can afford!

That was actually around Ponca, OK

Around bucklin ks, years ago, the only way to get to the deere shop from the hiway was under a train bridge that was pretty steep. The straight up and down hieght was like 15', but half way down the hill it was like 12...ive been a couple different combines and trailers totaled out on that bridge...

Oh ya That's on 77 north of Ponca City. There is plenty of warning and a way around it if familiar with 77. Guess didn't know any other way.

Local dealer told one of their employees that caught a backhoe he was hauling, "you are now a member of our bridge club".

Well, since the tractor is a Peterbilt, I'm guessing that the driver, from his driving position of sitting on the floor, that his view of the bridge ahead and above was obscured by his steering wheel.

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Well, since the tractor is a Peterbilt, I'm guessing that the driver, from his driving position of sitting on the floor, that his view of the bridge ahead and above was obscured by his steering wheel.

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OK that was funny!

Rick

Not running down young drivers with this post there are many very good young drivers. That is a wheat harvesting rig. Most are driven by young drivers who do not know the territory and often there is no escort. He might have taken a wrong turn and gone down the wrong road. I have been there and done that more than once. I have ridden on the top of a combine, talking to the truck driver on a cell phone while we were creeping under an overpass. 2 MPH seems like 20 MPH when you are two inches from the bridge beams. Last time I did it was the I70 bridge at Russel Kansas. A few years Before I was nvolved with the crew I worked for they somehow lost the cab off a 8820 Deere combine from hitting a big sign. If nobody is hurt I don't consider an accident like this as being all that bad. It looks to me like the damage was primarily done to the combine. Maybe a little damage to the MacDon header. Could have bent a few places on the combine trailer when the chains were trying to hold the combine down. Some harvesters just use a nylon strap around the circumference of the front and rear wheels of the combine to hold it down. When we hauled combines in the Kansas, Oklahoma Nebraska area we got away with stuff a commercial hauler would never get away with.

Looks like a good time to OH the brakes!

It appears this guy was going faster than 20 mph,
what a mess. $300k pile of junk in five seconds.

Heard a story about a truck got stuck under an overpass once. All the men around were trying to figure out how to get it out.

A 12 year old boy kept trying to interrupt and the men kept brushing him off. Finally the boy got through and said, "Why not just let the air out of the tires?"

Don't know if it's true, but it makes a good story.

(quoted from post at 06:31:39 10/19/15) Heard a story about a truck got stuck under an overpass once. All the men around were trying to figure out how to get it out.

A 12 year old boy kept trying to interrupt and the men kept brushing him off. Finally the boy got through and said, "Why not just let the air out of the tires?"

Don't know if it's true, but it makes a good story.

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A place where I used to work had doors that were something like 13 ft high that OTR trucks would back through to unload. It was not unusual for them to have to let air out to get out again.

Many times, I have let the air bags down to get under a bridge..(6" Crescent wrench is all it takes..

Ron..