This happened at the "Black Diamond" coal mine neaar White Oak, Oklahoma. A fellow was driving his scraper {657 Cat, front and rear engines, 57 cubic yard capacity, - big} near where the employees park their trucks...and got a little close. Three pickups were instantly flattened. The best one was one of those Chevy, Isuzu LUV pickups. The tallest part of the remains looked to be about 14 inches high.
Not far away near Welch Oklahoma, a dragline operator {we'll call him Johnny} had been eyeing a willow tree that he wanted for his yard. He figured up the shift changes, the rate of dig, and the approximate reach of the boom. When the time was right, he had his truck parked perfectly in the dumping range of the drag bucket. {A dragline dumps the bucket best out toward the end of the boom}
So our friend Johnny scoops up this little willow tree, swings around and dumps it into his truck and all is well...Except that when he releases the drag brake to dump the bucket, the lip of the bucket drops down and kisses the side of his 3 year old Chevy. The bed is nearly ripped from the frame. The left side of the bed in now over a foot to the right. No word as to how Johnny managed to explain all this, and my apologies if he is reading. :)
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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