So many questions...
If their was no camera going, there would have been no rollover, just an operator running dozer, the camera brings out the potential hero in people
"UH OH" indeed. I would love to know exactly what the person running the machine was thinking....or what the guy he borrowed it from said when he got the call it was on its side....
I watched that a few days ago when first posted. There was ample time for the operator to reverse direction as it was plain to see the "rocking" action of the machine as it was becoming unstable just before rolling over. Almost looks a staged accident by some of the comments.
If only there was a blade on the front to make a path over the bank to get down......
I think I saw a path already cut just past where the dozer dropped. I wonder how hard the operator pin balled around in the cab?
What a bunch of morons..
I think he tried to reverse course, the tracks were running forward before he killed the engine. He *may* have saved it by dropping the blade and letting it rip in reverse, definitely wouldn't have hurt his chances.
attempt to show off for the camera
Stupid operation. Pushing a trench to ramp off that hilltop to drop down would have made some sense, NOT better just Some.
We can all say shoulda coulda woulda. Why he backed over the face when he could have made a trail? I like to keep the blade low, even when going over the hump on the float. Inexperience maybe..... lets try out my dad's dozer. I didn't see it happen, but I had parked an open cab D3, and went to the little plastic building. I left it running. Young fella jumps on. Floors the fuel feed, nothing, yanks the throttle, nothing.... lets off the throttle, then can't figure out why he can't make it stop. Hits what he thinks is the brake, makes a hard right into an open hole, comes out of the seat, face first into a hot exhaust, rolls off the hood, bounces off a spinning track turning like a conveyor belt of death and lands on the ground beside the machine. Hoe man hits her out of hear with a shovel. He was a lucky boy. Never sat on a machine again. Stuck to surveying he did
I think that scenario started with I bet I can flip a dozer backwards
That smelled staged to me too. Like that a-hole who camera-ed up a plane and then staged an engine failure, bailed out.
Looks like he thought he could creep it down by how he was edging it, like it was going to saunter on down slowly. Nope it launched off that edge.
Yeah either staged like on many youtube videos or just someone that has no idea how to operate. That was an easy obstacle for a dozer if done properly.
What's the purpose of staging something like that and possibly seriously damaging a $50K + machine? Does the likes and subscriptions pay that much? Not saying it's not staged just curious to the reason if it was.
It's the views that pay. The likes and subscriptions only change the formula for how your videos are found. I don't see it as staged either. More than likely someone from the city dreaming of a rural life and going to save money on the land that they bought by purchasing or renting a machine for clear and grub. With evidence of incompetence like that, why would anyone post it for the world to see?
Maybe staged, and the machine was already signed up for an auction.. I dunno.
Not staged . . . there are plenty enough idiots to accomplish a job like that.
The end says it best 'uh oh'. If no one was hurt it is a riot.
Could be staged, could be lever puller error. I doubt anyone who gave a crap would intentionally do it
I think it is quite possibly is real. Not far from me a 19 year old man was killed while working in a gravel pit. He backed a D-8 off a verticle drop off and was crushed. It was a very old dozer with no ROPS.
Even then a ROPS can kill one if they aren't buckled in.
There have been several fire dozer guys killed falling off high places in Ca, both govt employed and contractors, even belted in. Head against some heavy metal at high speed or something along those lines.
I drove through some of that country, right before the roads washed out. It is extreme terrain. If you made one wrong move on a firebreak, you would roll for hundreds of feet down the slope, off cliffs etc. It is very daunting work that they do, often under extreme circumstances.
I had a good friend killed about 40 years ago when he was unloading a D7G off a low-boy which he had got stuck by turning a corner a little too short. The trailer was tilted a bit and as soon as it twitched into reverse, it slid off the side. The deck was frosty. He was not wearing the seatbelt and he was thrown out the side and edge of the canopy cut him in half. The last time i saw him was in his coffin. I remember him every time i load or unload a tracked machine. If he had not been in such a hurry, and got the truck and trailer pulled out, he would still be alive. He was advised by an old catskinner who was there not to do it but he ignored the advice. His in-laws had large 4WD tractor which could have pulled it out only a half mile away as he was going to do some work for them. I am posting this to maybe show some people how dangerous this could be for somebody inexperienced that has no clue
Right before this vid was taken, the operator said "hold my beer, watch this".
@56wrench , thank you for posting that reminder. Somebody needs to learn from that hard lesson. I've bounced one little dozer off the side of a couple of ramps, I still had some traction so I could back the belly pan down off the ramp I was straddling. No harm no foul, but I learned.
Eerily similar to current boss's brother here, Deere 750 Dozer, just completed some Levee Repairs down by Hermann Airport and had loaded by himself, Driving out low bed got too close to ditch and sucked in, Gerald was a good operator and generally wore a lap belt, his choice this time killed him similarly. Tractor as soon as released the brake slipped sideways off the trailer throwing him out of the Open ROPS(Belts found at scene untouched aside the seat), the still running tractor then slowly rolled onto him crushing his upper torso under that ROPS essentially he could not breath and died of asphyxiation. A Friend/Neighbor/Client that lives in the Rhineland Valley nearby called his brothers until raised someone as to the Headlights being seen for some time unmoving, concerned could be in trouble. My boss was the one that actually came upon the scene first. My boss still had the 750 when cut in my Barn Driveway, I learned of the history of it from the operator using it.
Sorry DM, i can't say i like your post because it brings back memories of a guy i knew since we were kids in the same grade in school. I had also worked for his dad and with him and his older brother a couple different times. I was going back to work for him as mechanic. He hired me and he was killed a few days later, before i was able to start work. I only worked there for a few months- it was very hard to be there, his dad was mad at the whole world and everybody all the time. When i gave my notice, his brother was very understanding and told me at least i was able to quit, he was stuck there.
I worked for a older guy my last year of school then some after school he drilled me about the trailer and often said that is the most dangerous place a guy will ever be on a Dozer. I had a ramp brake on a trailer that didnt have a dovetail the machine fell strait down it hit hard i dent a brace on the seat bottom. I always watched cars and pickups jump on tv until you have been there you dont know just how hard the landing will be. I am big on seat belts after going out a window.
When a major forest fire went through my property an idiot from the county sent 3 dozers into the MX track when the smoke was so thick they couldn't see any obstacles. There were jumps with gouges in them and also a few holes/dug outs they could have easily drove into. They had to abort after the flames went right over them. There were sent into the thickest bush. Talking with one of the operators after the fact, he said the track probably saved them. He said if it was all bush he doesn't think they would have made it out. The track gave them a cleared area to back into and they followed it backwards to get to the parking lot. One of the dozers was an open station and the operators glasses were twisted about 45 degs. on his face. I was watering a 5th wheel trailer to keep from catching fire and they drove past me. It must have been pretty scary with the flames going over top of them, especially with no cab. The fire boss from sustainable resources severely chewed out the county fire chief for letting his employee send the dozers in when it was clearly too late to do so.
An air conditioned dozer will take a tremendous amount of fire and just keep pushing. They use them very aggressively here in California like that. But why risk it too much. Usually the dozer can do its work hours or days before the fire even gets there. But with a cab, if it is a simple ground fire, they can work right along the fire edge very effectively.
My brother in law bought my Komatsu D39P-1 and sent a truck with a steel deck to pick it up, I think it had a bobtail (forgot.) The driver backed the truck up into a raised area where I could load it. I backed the dozer up on the deck about one inch a minute, scared the crap out of me. I noticed by the time the dozer was at my BIL's ranch for unloading, it had shifted around on the steel deck. BIL had zero hours in a dozer and wanted to unload it - uh, no. I'll unload it and give you a few lessons.
I still get a grin when I know you are from the other forum, John. How is the motor home and Jeep side of things?
Hey! We're moving on from rock crawling and RVing, I had a new shoulder joint installed two years ago and a new knee joint installed two months ago . Sold the Jeep and trying to sell the coach.