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Unloading Rip Rap with Dump Truck

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Heavy Loads Coming into the Farm All Day! WHAT'S IN THE BOX??

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What happens here

A dump truck, driven by Shelton, arrives with the 'rip rap' (solite rip rap), which consists of very heavy, large stones. The truck driver must carefully back up onto the sloped, wet grass and position the truck to unload the stones directly into the discharge ditch of the pond dam. Due to the weight and the angle of the terrain, there's a risk of the truck tipping, requiring slow and cautious maneuvering. The stones are meant to dissipate water flow and prevent erosion once the pond fills. This process is about heavy equipment operation and material placement, unrelated to generator sizing.

Goal: A dump truck arrives with rip rap, and the driver carefully maneuvers to unload the heavy stones onto the pond dam's discharge ditch, requiring precise positioning to prevent the truck from tipping on the sloped terrain.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Truck
  • Rip Rap (Solite)

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Shelton's here he's going to come down he's gonna pull into here the struggle here is there's always a struggle there's always conflict whoo so he's got to come in right here on this dirt he's got to pull up into the grass and then back all the way up here on wet grass and I don't know if you know it or not but a dump truck will get stuck on a wet banana peel so let's see how this goes another a little bit of conflict here is that this rock is really really really heavy so when he tips back and it's on an angle which you can't really tell but we're on the hillside right here if it's on an angle it can cause the truck to roll over so we want to be sure that the truck doesn't roll over he's gonna back on up here I'm gonna help him back in so what he's gonna do is go up really really slow I hope he doesn't tip if he tips he'll start coming back down really really fast what you didn't see there is with soon as he started raising it up the bed of the truck shifted a little bit to the right about that much but he could feel it in the cab so he's trying to get in the right spot [Music] see how the bed of that truck is bulging out on this side and leaning a little bit and once it starts moving in a slip-on out this is riprap and it's called so light riprap a lot of dangers in Holland Rock that most people don't know that all that weight way up in the air and could cause them to tail [Applause] [Music] this point right here the rock is stack up against itself so he's got to pull forward to get it time stack let's talk about this power right here we've got to move this pile it's not quite in the ideal place we got to move all that rock down into this ditch right here lots of work missus tiny Ridge will probably help me out with that how many of you guys have a life that will help you move Rock whoo that's probably hmm eight tons of rock something like that a lot of work Sheldon is always very very respectful and tries to take care of my lamb because he knows how much work went into getting this grass to grow right here this was a forest two years ago all

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