How not to park your dump truck
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How not to park your dump truck
This was the excitement for the day, behind my house. The person who occupies the duplex next to mine wants a back yard, so they got their friends from the XZ ranch to bring in a dump truck load of dirt.
No one knew the ancient septic tank was there.
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No one knew the ancient septic tank was there.
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This was the excitement for the day, behind my house. The person who occupies the duplex next to mine wants a back yard, so they got their friends from the XZ ranch to bring in a dump truck load of dirt.
No one knew the ancient septic tank was there.
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No one knew the ancient septic tank was there.
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Wow that was some day.. Thanks for the photos... Just like I was there..
Hopefully the truck didn't sustain and damage..
They are lucky they found it that way instead of a child falling in someday..
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As far as I know the only damage to the truck was a little crumple to the bottom of the fuel tank.
Someone really messed up when they took that tank out of service and didn't fill it in. It was just a matter of time before something fell in it. I know I've driven over it a number of times, even with the camper on. It's the easiest way around the back of the house.
The dump truck was just the heaviest thing lately to cause it to collapse.
Someone really messed up when they took that tank out of service and didn't fill it in. It was just a matter of time before something fell in it. I know I've driven over it a number of times, even with the camper on. It's the easiest way around the back of the house.
The dump truck was just the heaviest thing lately to cause it to collapse.
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The hole appeared to be an ancient septic tank. It was metal, not concrete. It was probably the original septic for these duplexes, which I understand to be 50+ years old. I don't know when it was abandoned, but it's been down there rusting away ever since, just waiting for something heavy enough to come along and cause it to collapse.
I wasn't involved in this at all. Just a bystander, as it all happened behind my house.
One of the ladies in the community is opening a day care in the unit next to mine in this duplex. Workers from the ZX ranch, a subsidiary of JR Simplot, and (so I've been told) one of the largest ranches in the US, are putting a yard in the back for her.
So yeah, they got all the equipment you could imagine.
As an interesting aside, ZX ranch buys Ford trucks in large lots. Only Ford trucks, and only white. They range from F-150's to F-350's, single cabs, super cabs, quad cabs. Some have flat beds. There are 4WD and 2WD, deisel and V10's. Every possible variation you can imagine, just that they are all Fords, and they are all white. You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a white Ford truck.
I wasn't involved in this at all. Just a bystander, as it all happened behind my house.
One of the ladies in the community is opening a day care in the unit next to mine in this duplex. Workers from the ZX ranch, a subsidiary of JR Simplot, and (so I've been told) one of the largest ranches in the US, are putting a yard in the back for her.
So yeah, they got all the equipment you could imagine.
As an interesting aside, ZX ranch buys Ford trucks in large lots. Only Ford trucks, and only white. They range from F-150's to F-350's, single cabs, super cabs, quad cabs. Some have flat beds. There are 4WD and 2WD, deisel and V10's. Every possible variation you can imagine, just that they are all Fords, and they are all white. You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a white Ford truck.
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Thats gotta suck! Pretty neat to see how they got it out though.
Even driving my dump truck through my yard (which was an old old yardsite) I have sunk a few times where the old basement was. Luckily not enough to even slow me down.
I did also find the old well with my right rear backhoe tire haha. That was a site to see, but all I did was extend the stabilizer, right myself upright, then drove away.
Even driving my dump truck through my yard (which was an old old yardsite) I have sunk a few times where the old basement was. Luckily not enough to even slow me down.
I did also find the old well with my right rear backhoe tire haha. That was a site to see, but all I did was extend the stabilizer, right myself upright, then drove away.
I had a similar situation hapen to me many years ago!!! 
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We had a pump operator find one of them old tanks, thankful that he found it with the outrigger before he pulled the boom out of the cradle , 52 meter boom pumps tend to make a fine mess when they lay down on the job.
Situations like that particular one are always in the back of my hat when I'm rigging up the pump for a job, you just never know what lies under that layer of topsoil, asphalt or even concrete slabs.... buried utilities and undermining from rain is another issue that usually goes unseen until your on it and it buckles just enough to let momentum and gravity finish the job.
Glad too hear there was minimal damages and no injuries !
Situations like that particular one are always in the back of my hat when I'm rigging up the pump for a job, you just never know what lies under that layer of topsoil, asphalt or even concrete slabs.... buried utilities and undermining from rain is another issue that usually goes unseen until your on it and it buckles just enough to let momentum and gravity finish the job.
Glad too hear there was minimal damages and no injuries !
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I met a guy from CL that was crippled from the same type of thing. Said he was only driving 5 -10 mph slowly across an open field when he ran over a buried culvert pipe and the truck ditched forward. He did not have his seat belt on for the short trip and went through the windshield.
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