today at work we were continuing to build an expantion to one of our snowmaking ponds. i was driving a big off road dump truck, Cat 725a
like that one.
anyways, the dirt we were taking out of the new pond area was being dumped over the dyke of the old pond, omg dyke. so there was a tree sticking up though the new, expanded dyke. it was in the way for building outward like planned. i was told to get a chainsaw and cut it down. w/e nbd right? well i was like whatever and was going to. but then i was like "yo imma just knock it down with the truck" fuckin sweet right?
so i had a full load of dirt in the truck and i was backing up to the edge and i backed into the tree. went to lift the dump box and the whole truck tipped.
like this
i almost shit a brick.
on the way tipping over, the truck hit the tree and shattered it. not just broke it off, fucking shattered into like 9 (yeah 9) pieces. then the dirt from the truck buried the tree and it was done except my truck was like this still
i put on all three differential locks and drove away and it stood back up again.
the best part is that everyone saw and i looked like a boss.
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