Chunking A D-7 Off Of The Trailer Kenny and I went to Turkey Bend and loaded a D-7 Cat Dozer and was headed back to Smithwick. The picture below (in the first comment) shows the stretch of road where an incident happen, which as probably in 1967. The road was not paved back then. The bar-ditch was usually wet, and springy. It was fairly clean without cedar brush back then. Kenny was driving too fast and got too close to the ditch as he came into the corner. This caused the truck and trailer to slam into a 4 high vertical bank on the right side with great force. This caused truck and trailer to suddenly stop but the dozer to continued going. The chains snapped, as the dozer left the trailer. It rolled over, something like 1 1/4 times, leaving it laying some 50 or 60 feet out in the pasture. This caused a very loud noise followed by humongous dust cloud. (The timing was only a few weeks after we had had another potentially bad mishap in close proximity. Ill add the other story below for reference. It involved a turned over John Deere Loader, with me bloody and we walked to where Jim McCouquodale was working cattle) This time McCouquodale and crew were back working cattle again. It is told that without the benefit of seeing anything, Jim said well the Lewis boys are at it again. In less than 10 to 15 minutes we ran a winch cable from the truck out and tied onto the dozer, flipped it back over, started it and got it re-loaded. By the time McCouquodale got of there we were already pulling away. That old dozer was pretty tough, I was as if nothing had ever happened. https://facebook/groups/729839877052650/permalink/743765138993457/
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:02:39 +0000
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