Disgusting Morning btw Just back from work all nighter for a few hours kip then back again this afternoon
Morning - WFH today after the madness of a Manchester rush hour yesterday evening ... wouldn't fancy that on the daily ...
I wondered if something occurred on the bridge that caused him to swerve and go over, I believe he was also carrying a large trailer of fruit at the time, so that would have caused the instability if he was trying to avoid an accident.
All seems quite bizarre... if the tractor was somehow jammed in gear / direction, you'd have thought he'd have jumped before the plunge? ... wonder if he might have had some form of seizure?
Just had another look online, there's a video now. He went round a roundabout before going onto the bridge, the trailer of fruit he was towing, which was the size of a truck in itself started the pendulum effect, truckers worst nightmare, at which it went beyond the point of no return. I couldn't tell if anything crossed his path on the roudabout or if he was simply going to fast navigating it, I suspect the latter and maybe inexperience of towing a load that size.
Video included within this article... https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartfo...hows-moment-tractor-falls-from-bridge-328759/
I'd imagine even if he had time, jumping from a tractor that size, especially with it's big **** off wheels, comes with it's own risk. Plus they have roll cages so training would be to stay inside, not expecting for someone to take it over the side of a bridge lol.
Those things are designed to keep the person in the cabin Safe just like forklifts. I've seen some horrific forklift fatalities because of people jumping out of them when **** goes wrong, worse thing you can do. I drove a yale one for about 4years back in the day, great fun
Yeah that's what I was thinking when Fosse said about jumping, although he may have been joking. I thought you don't jump out of a roll cage.
I drove mine in a big civils yard and you'd get idiots coming up to ask questions from the back or side, I'd give them fuking hell for it cos you could run some over on them and wouldn't even feel it if you did t see them. My foreman used to get the codes off the I ternet to up the speed, the yale mechanic used to come out quite often to maintain them and he'd always look at us funny cos they're supposed it be restricted to 7mph and we had em on like 15mph
Going to cost him as well, can't see the insurance paying out on that? I wonder if the tractor is one that is shared by several farmers, considering the cost of them now. I see the load on the trailer was raspberries, so can cross them off the shopping list this week lol. the load might have been alright, but when the crane hoisted the trailer up to get it upright, the whole lot fell out lol.
a trailer of fruit, did it fall on tractor/cars and get crushed. Or would that be in-cider information
