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<blockquote data-quote="Team Fountain" data-source="post: 396" data-attributes="member: 37"><p>I just remembered an incident from when I was about 10. I always worked for my father's construction company in the summers. Well, this particular year one of the projects was a garage for a classic car collector. To say the jobsite was crowded is an understatement. Anyway, we had to put in a block retaining wall on the side of a hill to pour the driveway to. We hired a local equipment rental to dig footings for the wall (about 150' long). Well, he was using a loader / backhoe, driving on the side of the hill, and using the outriggers to level the machine. About 1/3 of the way into the dig, he went to raise the outrigger and move. As he raised the outrigger, instead of it raising, the machine started to roll. He quickly put the outrigger back down so he could assess the situation. By then, the neighbor was outside. Our wall was going 3' off the property line. Needless to say, the neighbor was already pissed about the wall and figured a great way to get even was to assure us that if we got so much as a pebble over the property line, she would sue. That eliminated the option of spinning the machine and driving down the hill. The final solution stunned me. The operator finally let about half the air out of the uphill rear tire. After that, he was able to finish the dig and drive off the hill without flipping. As we were adding air back to the tire after the dig, he confessed he never thought that would work. I learned some stuff that day.........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Team Fountain, post: 396, member: 37"] I just remembered an incident from when I was about 10. I always worked for my father's construction company in the summers. Well, this particular year one of the projects was a garage for a classic car collector. To say the jobsite was crowded is an understatement. Anyway, we had to put in a block retaining wall on the side of a hill to pour the driveway to. We hired a local equipment rental to dig footings for the wall (about 150' long). Well, he was using a loader / backhoe, driving on the side of the hill, and using the outriggers to level the machine. About 1/3 of the way into the dig, he went to raise the outrigger and move. As he raised the outrigger, instead of it raising, the machine started to roll. He quickly put the outrigger back down so he could assess the situation. By then, the neighbor was outside. Our wall was going 3' off the property line. Needless to say, the neighbor was already pissed about the wall and figured a great way to get even was to assure us that if we got so much as a pebble over the property line, she would sue. That eliminated the option of spinning the machine and driving down the hill. The final solution stunned me. The operator finally let about half the air out of the uphill rear tire. After that, he was able to finish the dig and drive off the hill without flipping. As we were adding air back to the tire after the dig, he confessed he never thought that would work. I learned some stuff that day......... [/QUOTE]
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