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Navigate Truck Obstacles and Unload

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What happens here

The semi-truck attempts to navigate a slight uphill turn from the gate. Due to the heavy load on the trailer being behind the rear tires of the tractor and the gravel surface, the truck loses traction and gets stuck. The driver is also cautious due to a ditch on the left side and the high stack of lumber. The speaker decides to have the driver back out and unload the lumber at a different, safer spot, away from the soft, muddy ground, which would otherwise become a 'mudhole' if the truck attempted to drive over it repeatedly.

Goal: The semi-truck driver encounters difficulties on the uphill gravel road due to the heavy load and lack of traction, leading to a change in the unloading location.

Tools and materials

  • Pallet Forks
  • Semi-truck with 50-foot trailer
  • Tractor

What they say

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alright guys welcome to the vlog today I've got some splainin to do right now so this tractor-trailer driver I spoke with him prior to him getting here to the house this turn is a slight uphill shot from the gate and the load on this tractor-trailer is behind the rear tires on the tractor itself so there's no traction going on right here this guy's hung up he couldn't get any traction in the gravel what he really probably needed to do it was get a little bit more momentum he was also afraid because just on the left hand side of the tractor trailer is a bit of a ditch and he was a little bit nervous about just going for it because the load here is stacked up pretty high it was about as high as a tractor would reach so just in his defense this was not his fault you probably see this text scrolling across but it's kind of interesting to watch he got all hung up there I came and met him talked to him and told him just to go ahead and back back out and we would unload in a different spot way over on the I guess back behind him right there so you'll see that here in just a second - and again I encourage you guys to post your opinions of what's going on here - he was a competent driver but he continued to try I guess he never gave up until I walked down there and you can see my tractor is probably 50 yards behind me walking down the driveway here and I met him and said hey they're just back on out so he started backing on out here my drone battery did not last through the entire unloading process but you'll get a little bit of the unloading process here and then we'll take you down and kind of show you what's going on but I'm in front of him right now and he's just kind of backing up to the spot it's so muddy and mucky as you see me pulling off of the gravel right here I start miring up really quickly so the creek is right there and it's just really really soft so this time of year the ground is really soft if it's not frozen it's mush and you can't run over it more than two or three times or you're just gonna make a big sloppy mud hole so that's what I was trying to avoid so he gets the tractor-trailer backed up in position here and this is actually a flatbed trailer with a cool cover over top of it you'll see them sliding it back here kind of sped that footage up and then we'll get it all unloaded it took me somewhere in the neighborhood of 45 minutes to unload all of this lumber each one of the bins or bundles excuse me weighed somewhere in the neighborhood of…

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