Log truck = hazard

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Well, hopefully you've a dump bed - or you gotta lay a line down before loading. I hated doing that. Gimme a friggin tipper!
 
Well, yes, I've a dump bed...and it's been sitting at my next roof job since the Monday after Thanksgiving, assuming he hasn't sold it already. :lol: I haul on a 16' utility trailer, what little I haul that is. I still have lots of customers who do their own clean up, which suits me just fine.....
 
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As a side note, do you know the full scopp on that accident, Burnham? I was thinking like every one else that the guy kept his cool, but have you thought he may have been texting/talking and if he had been fully alert, might have avoided it altogether?

Nothing along those line so far as info, Scott. But in truth, how well could anyone avoid a hunk of limb like that coming off a truck going the opposite direction? The time frames would be in the tenths of a second, methinks.
 
If both vehicles were doing 60mph, the log truck was 80' long, and the truck 20' long; it would take just over half a second (.57) for the trucks to cross each other. If I'm focusing my reaction times for a random interval, known stimuli and a predeterimined response are rarely under .2 seconds.

I'd say it was basically over before he knew what was going on.
 
I'm sure it was near instantaneous....just surmising....I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the limb hitting the road and bouncing upward and whatnot. It may have fallen right into him. Then again, his reaction may have been what yielded the end result rather than something much worse. I have seen (only once or twice) broken ends hanging/flopping at the end of long loads of logs. You know, the long, ragged loads seen when hauling pulpwood, where they're marketing everything but the last tuft of needles in the top.
 
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