These pics are doing the rounds of a few North American forums.
Location: Canada
Situation: Driver apparently enlists the help of a large piece of equipment to give him a tug…prime mover drove off leaving Kenworth getting ready to release his brakes…long red line is an air line…fault?
Trubrit:
These pics are doing the rounds of a few North American forums.
Location: Canada
Situation: Driver apparently enlists the help of a large piece of equipment to give him a tug…prime mover drove off leaving Kenworth getting ready to release his brakes…long red line is an air line…fault?
Err is that one of those long nose Kennies ■■?
eerrrrr…hello boss i’ve got a bit of a problem !!!
The phrase oh s***t .springs to mind!!
The long nose is now LONGEEEEEEEEEEER.
regards derek
US engineering at it’s finest 
Nice to see the bumper fittings are stronger than the chassis frame!
I also like the bloke peering under the truck with that stretched air line still under tension. I can imagine the pain if that hit you when the jubilee clip gave out 
Calv
Trubrit:
fault?
The front bit has come off. 
I bet I can weld that back together!!
I’d love to see what was pulling it!
chorcheela:
I’d love to see what was pulling it!
It was rumored to be a very large piece of forestry equipment but no pics I’m afraid
If you have a close look, it’s broke the chassis where the strengthening flitch for the engine mountings are.
Engineering wise, strengthening one area may sound like a great idea, but it has drawbacks as you then have one part that doesn’t flex so you then have a point at which the original thin bit of chassis flexes at one point, but is held solid at the next by the extra material and so it cracks just there as it has done in this picture.
Lucky move I reckon because it would have gone sooner or later as it would be typical for it to have been cracked round there and, as the picture proves, weak, but not noticed. It would have been a lot worse had it folded up on the guy if he hit a big bump at speed. At least on the day, he just had the front pulled away from him instead of the rest and the load, trying to push him with no steering.
Trubrit:
These pics are doing the rounds of a few North American forums.
Location: Canada
Situation: Driver apparently enlists the help of a large piece of equipment to give him a tug…prime mover drove off leaving Kenworth getting ready to release his brakes…long red line is an air line…fault?
Great pictures Trubrit ,keep sending them in. Calv , sounds like he is a bit concerned about the bloke in the blue shirt. What is the bloke in the blue shirt doing ■■? looking for the front wheels. 
Thats no problem , get the fitters to float a bit of filler over it ,be back on the road in the morning
I should have thought that title would attract a lot of Australian attention 
Well boss■■?
Wheel Nut:
I should have thought that title would attract a lot of Australian attention
Very good Cobber, go to the top of the paddock.
chorcheela:
I’d love to see what was pulling it!
I’d say “The Predator”!
nice work that man! 
i’ve still got an invoice somewhere from a well known recovery firm for 7k of repairs to one of their wreckers…
we employed them for a bit of extra grunt to get 200 tonne plus loads (erm if anyone from notts police is reading, i meant 170 tonne of course 
) up a particularly steep hill - first time out they claim the german driver anchored on before the brow of the hill and ripped their back bogie to bits
they were told to do with their bill what only the pelican is able to!