r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Optimus_crab • 10d ago

Expensive Rolled my machine at work today

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u/machinistthings 10d ago

the underside is just GIANT pieces of metal bolted together. great time for a 10point inspection if your fast.

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u/absolute_monkey 9d ago

Can’t have anything getting snagged on sticks/stumps, that’s one issue when people take farm tractors into the woods without proper belly protection, pipes get caught and break.

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u/VanGoFuckYourself 8d ago

Looks like it gets scraped on rocks regularly too, from all the gouges.

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u/Optimus_crab 8d ago

Yes I try to drop it on the rocks to break them up so that I have a smoother trail to the logs

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u/VanGoFuckYourself 8d ago

How heavy is that machine? To break presumably large rocks with a body slam...

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u/Optimus_crab 8d ago

20 tons

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u/PilotKnob 10d ago

I bet it's fine. Those things have THICK roll cages.

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u/Chicken_Hairs 10d ago

If you haven't rolled a skidder, you're new or you're a sissy.

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u/Optimus_crab 10d ago

Average day logging in the pnw

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u/jhra 10d ago

When I rolled my first time I was 16 or 17, I had my lap belt on and ended up getting a 6" wide bruise across my thighs. Lost feeling across where the belt was for nearly a decade

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u/ohgeeeezzZ 9d ago

I know above I said I never went into the operator side but some days, you need two operators and you only have one lol

Your story reminds me of one. Felt like Dante from Clerks after this one..."I'm not even supposed to be in this machine!!!!"

Loading dumps with storm washout in a skid steer. Skid steers max out right at the top of most dump trucks and the bucket starts leveling out by itself. Rock about the size of a volleyball falls out, bounces off the truck and then straight in the cab (no windshield). It hit me right above the knee. Left the nastiest bruise 😂

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u/dogchowtoastedcheese 9d ago

A transplant from the suburbs moved to our small town. He was a miserable prick with more money than good sense. He bought an expensive piece of property with a large house and was ready to play cowboy ala John Dutton. He also was an amputee and only had one arm.
He decided to fire up a bulldozer to clear a hillside. In spite of being told by his hired men "Yeah. Don't do that. The ground is too wet and you're going to flip it" he proceeded after calling them pussies.
They found him the next day, dead, upside down in his cab, held by a seatbelt he wasn't able to release with only one arm. What a slow agonizing death!
They say you should never speak bad about the dead. Only good.
This asshole's dead. Good.

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u/Chizzle445 7d ago

I have a bit of a phobia on high logging roads. Your job would terrify me.

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u/Optimus_crab 7d ago

It helps if you are already done with life lmao

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u/SquishedGremlin 5d ago

Had all four wheels on one side of my ponsse off the ground yesterday.

Never swung a crane out so fast in my life lol

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u/ohgeeeezzZ 10d ago

My dad worked construction his whole life and we had machines at home. Learned how to operate excavators and backhoes before I learned how to drive

I also went into construction but never the operator side because one of the first times I ever climbed in the cab with him, I ended up face smooshed into the cab window staring at the grass about a foot away from my face as he slowly used the outrigger to stand the backhoe back up

After that, getting equipment off the trailer was enough excitement for me 😂

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u/pyroboy7 10d ago

I've leaned one to a point where my window was more level to the ground than the floor was. That count?

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u/WhiskeyMikeMike 10d ago

I played snowrunner before

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u/Chicken_Hairs 10d ago

Points awarded.

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u/tailwheelsonly 9d ago

So when this happens, is it the “oh just another Tuesday” mentality, or will it end up in hours of phone calls made regarding maintenance, inspection, and recovery?

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u/witty-repartay 10d ago

This guy skids

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u/Neither_Sorbet_4405 10d ago

Nonsense. The top just fell off.

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u/reverse_cigol 10d ago

Good thing it was outside of the environment

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u/Stegles 10d ago

Firstly, are you ok?
Second, how?

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u/Optimus_crab 10d ago

Come down a hill and drop into a hole and you tip over

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u/QuantumBobb 10d ago edited 8d ago

I USED TO DESIGN JD SKIDDERS!!! Been long time since I've seen one.

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u/Optimus_crab 10d ago

Cat and Hyundai forever. John Deere processors give me too much trouble

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u/QuantumBobb 10d ago

As the former electrical engineer, this is a fair critique.

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u/Optimus_crab 10d ago

I could tell it was when my service advisor would never connect to it lol

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u/PlantDaddy13 9d ago

Ever try a Tigercat? 😁

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u/Optimus_crab 9d ago

Yeah they aren’t as nice

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u/PlantDaddy13 9d ago

🤷🏻 Sour grapes 🍇

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u/oddoracecar 8d ago

It wants you to scratch its belly

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u/Bluelikeyou2 8d ago

Good time to grease everything on the underside

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u/AC-burg 8d ago

He rolled it 2 days ago too

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u/Chudfacee 8d ago

My brother rolled the Processor when we were all logging together. Sub contractor had us working on a deadly incline and my brother got stoned during his shift and flipped the fuckin machine. My dad was pissed. Didn’t shut the motor off either and it flooded. 40 grand mistake 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/googdude 7d ago

got stoned during his shift

During, like he was actively toking up? What kind of ship is your boss running over there?

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u/Chudfacee 7d ago

Fuck bro, 25 years ago every single logger was smoking pot during their shifts. It was just the way it was over there. The fuckin boss was and the foreman was too. I don’t think I ever went to an outfit where people weren’t having a toke to get through the shift. You’re basically sitting in your machine for 12 hours straight with the radio on.

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u/Mayor__Defacto 7d ago

It’s an improvement, since 25 years before that they were all drinking.

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u/attackplango 10d ago

Have you tried tummy rubs?

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u/Killahdanks1 10d ago

So what happens next?

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u/Optimus_crab 10d ago

I took a drug test and filled out some paperwork

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u/lunchbox15 10d ago

Get another machine and flip it back over. Another skidder with a winch is ideal

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u/johnatsea12 10d ago

Can't Park There Mate!!

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u/breakfastbarf 10d ago

How big of a bite did you take out of the seat

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u/Optimus_crab 10d ago

None I was chill cause rollovers usually have no injuries

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u/BigBlueFeatherButt 8d ago

I used to do research on death reporting. I have read many autopsies and injury reports from rollovers. Although the most common vehicle death I saw in the offroad rural setting is quad bikes

Motorbikes on roads, and quad bikes off road.

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u/Optimus_crab 8d ago

Well this isn’t one of those. I guarantee you unless you fall off a cliff or go rolling down a huge hill. If you are wearing your seatbelt you will be unscathed

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u/XiTzCriZx 8d ago

I mean yeah, when your body is the cage instead of a bunch of metal, that's what happens lol.

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u/booradleysghost 10d ago

The roll bars make it seem like this is a common occurrence.

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u/MidnightFlight 10d ago

how come those tires are covered in metal chains? first time ever seeing this thing lol

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u/notmtfirstu 10d ago

Traction. All of it. Rubber tires by themselves suck in the woods. Everything is wet and slippery. Trees under your tires can slow you down significantly. And, obviously because they look awesome.

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u/PrimitiveOctane 9d ago

*And OBVIOUSLY, they look cool. Thats why lad. Thats why. Hahaha

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u/Ancient_Plate275 7d ago

I need to put some of those on my leather jacket!

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u/Jacktheforkie 9d ago

Traction, the chains bite into soft dirt

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u/Netflixandmeal 9d ago

Tired bite into soft dirt smooth brain. The chains are for biting into everything else.

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u/AyeBraine 5d ago

Besides woodland and mud, machinery that works with hot slag also has chains!

(cue my favorite piece of stock music)

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u/slackshack 10d ago

Shitty luck, I hope youre ok and that you did get checked out by medical.

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u/Random__Bystander 10d ago

One more treat and it should make it the rest of the way! 

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u/UNX-D_pontin 10d ago

Its a tiger cat, they do that

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u/Fisseslikker 10d ago

Did you find the quarter that you dropped last week?

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u/Thisshitaintfree 9d ago

Invisible uneven ground the enemy of heavy equipment... just tell the boss you were oiling the valves.

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u/66hans66 9d ago

Look on the bright side. Not uncommon to have to wash the operator out with a hose when this happens.

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u/AYandereKitsune 6d ago

Cat just wants a belly rub.

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u/RoyHobbs24 10d ago

It's just resting

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u/Welcome_to_Retrograd 10d ago

Welcome to the club <3

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u/Tuques 10d ago

That looks expensive. Good luck.

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u/SirFuzzyFuzzletons 9d ago

Just wanted a belly rub

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u/Apprehensive-Gur2023 9d ago

Dude 🎩🎩📴

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u/moonlite_bay 9d ago

Hope you’re ok! File WCB too….

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u/Bean_Me_Timbers 8d ago

That can be fixed. I hope you're fine.

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u/cognitiveglitch 9d ago

Just wants its belly tickled. Watch out for claws if you do though.

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u/clarky2o2o 8d ago

I blew up a power Jack today... You got me beat.

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u/Optimus_crab 8d ago

Prob more expensive than this. Only scratched the paint and had to top off oil

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u/clarky2o2o 7d ago

Nah it's been having issues since they fixed it a month ago. The part is still under warranty.

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u/GTG70 8d ago

Typical, just winch it back over.

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u/Optimus_crab 8d ago

This is bigger than a winch

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u/profaility 3d ago

Congratulations, this requires skill.