Freak Accident! Grain Trailer broke in half!
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- čas přidán 4. 10. 2023
- We had an absolutely insane day this past Saturday. I was finishing up my last 8 rows of corn when my driver called and told me something crazy had happened. Our grain trailer broke in half on the highway not far from Cargill. It was not overloaded! This was a freak occurrence. Thank God everyone was okay. The driver, truck, and corn was fine, but clearly the trailer was not! You'll see in this video how they moved the corn from one trailer to the next then got the trailer out of there.
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I've welded for a large part of my life and have been on a farm my whole life. I have always been amazed that this doesn't happen more often. The way all hopper trailers are built just blows my mind that they can hold the amount of weight that they do in the first place let alone bouncing down the road and twisting in and out of the field driveways. Over time everything gets tired and eventually it is going to give out.
The same thing happened to us a few years ago, thank goodness everyone was fine.
Thank God your driver is OK.
You got that right!!
Damn! Always something, never fails.
You can say that again!
Glad it came out ok, and nobody got hurt! But you lost more than 20 bushel of corn, you had to hire this CO. to come out and do whatever they did, and looks like they did a good job!
Thankfully that's what we pay insurance for!
The bottom rails are in tension the upper rails are in compression. These forces steel or aluminum are good at resisting. But they rely on one another for combined strength.
It would appear the top rails in compression failed, leaving just the bottom rails to carry the load, and the bottom failed as well.
Loading cycles and metal fatigue over time, and yes, it is a wonder this does not happen more often. Especially in States that allow 90K gross. Most trailers have a
maximum weight on the tag. When farmers exceed that is when the fatigue starts to happen, even if the trailer is not overweight, the damage started some time ago.
At that point a simple bump in the road can do the deed. Glad no one was hurt!
Metal fatigue. Well I am sorry for your trouble. It’s always something farming. I know hopers haul more and are more convenient unloading normally. But, we have used East dump trailers for 4 decades with no issues like this. I know they are heavier. But, we dual purpose and haul lime, fertilizer, gravel sometimes and corn 🌽 and soybeans. Good luck. 👍
Quite bizarre. But there are people who know what to do. Deer gonna eat well tonight!
Lowerys made quick work of the cleanup! Yeah those deer are getting fattened up for sure
I was really confused by the fire trucks until you pointed out the grass fire.
Yeah he was lighting it up!!
Farm Master trailer. Not the first one I’ve seen bent like that. I tried posting links to 2 others but those comments disappeared. Farm Master was also sold under a few other names, I can’t remember them all anymore. Lime City, John Boot or John White something like that.
Yep you are exactly right
Wow, that towing outfit is prepared for everything! Hope you never need them again, and 20bu and the trailer isn't a loss if nobody was hurt.
I imagine years of overloading took its toll
See this a few times. The cross frame supports will start to crack. Need to inspect every year with a fine tooth comb. Weld cracks as needed. It happens just inspect more often. Glad all turned out well.
Those jack plates got so hot, they melted into the asphalt 😮
It was spraying sparks into the side ditch. Would've been crazy to have seen happen
Was there any drops in the roadway. Deep pot holes something that would have caused a sudden stress in the frame. How fast was the truck and trailer being driven? Someone commented that the landing gear melted the asphalt? That roadway dont look too wide and fifty miles per hour is perhaps about top speed for an eighty thousand pound gross weight load. It dont appear that any provision was available to slide the rear tandens forward any? I have saw dry van trailers break in the middle when carrying a heavy load with the trailer tandems slid all the way to the rear of the trailer. In what was visible in the video the trailer looks very nice and well maintained and the paint looks as thoe it was stored under a shelter when not used?
Wow, never seen this before .
Hope I never do again!
I have
Looks there was a bump in that little bridge where the leak started.
had a guy have the axles come out of his grain trailer one time only had about 200 bushels in the hoppers
If can happen its gonna happen on 88. Lost my truck back in 2012 when a steer tire blew and my driver was too fast and slammed the brakes and jackknifed into a cotton field on 88.
Yikes!
Happens over time especially on these type trailers ,I guarantee every hopper bottom trailer has cracks if you know where to look ,especially pulling in and out of feilds,been in the trucking buiss over 40 years hopper trailers have a life
When ir rain it poors /
Is a frame rot out ????
That is why you always inspect your frame rails
Steel trailer, im guessing not much corn in the front hopper
An advice to a brother, if I may. Never buy a frameless trailer. This trailer design uses the side wall longitudinals to keep it from breaking, and the top transverses play a vital role to keep the walls from caving in. In your case, they bent and the top wall longitudinal became ineffective.
Wish I could comment a picture of our accident from last fall.
And how many times has that trailer been overloaded in the past? I would guess a few more times than it should have been. And I am sure that it has taken a beating on several occasions coming in and out of fields. It may not have been overloaded on this trip, but was the corn distributed properly throughout the length of the trailer? This was probably just the straw that broke the camels back.
What brand trailer?
What year is it?
It’s call harvesting! Family did it for 62 years !
Yep!
Logan what brand was that trailer? I’m looking for another hopper bottom but not that brand, lol!
I believe it was called Farm Master, definitely avoid it! I've heard from 3 other people all with the same trailer that had this happen.
@@LHFarmsTN I also heard there was a welding school making hopper bottoms that has a bad reputation as well.
@Thomasfarmstn yeah I'm not sure what brand those are but that sounds bad haha
That look like an old steele trailer, had 2 of them do this, the steel wears out, 1 weld breaks, then is wears a brace loose... you gotta inspect those old steel frames. Inspect equipmemt more closley and you'll prevent a lot of your "freak accidents" this wasnt not accident, if this trailer wasnt ovwrloaded its all on you and your people
Edit: i caught mine before it fell right kn half on a smoth flat road, they just buckled a little. Get rid lf the rusty steel bud
Adding a 3rd axle spread out would've eliminated this catastrophe. An improperly loaded trailer could be a probable cause regardless of how much weight carried. I saw trailers buckle in the center from drivers pulling off of a mound.
Looks full to the brim .. 49000lbs?
I have had to split weight the truck, not because the truck wouldn't fit on the scale but because the truck and load exceeded the capacity of the scale and have never had a trailer break due to overload. You have some explaining to do.
However full the truck was it was 'level full' Shoud have had more in the front and back and less in the belly.
I've been to elevators where I was to long for the scale and had to show them how to split weigh.
I don't know what explaining you're expecting. Trailer wasn't overloaded. Sometimes shit happens.
The hoppers have slopped sides. We always fill from front to back but inevitably due to the shape of hoppers it is going to have most weight in the center. It's unavoidable
What year and how long was that trailer? I have a 2010 Neville.
I'm not sure on the year. It was pretty old and it's 42 ft long
@LHFarmsTN Just wondering mine is a 38.5' . How was your paint holding up? Just had mine repainted. Original paint all chipped off. They didn't even use primer. Would never buy another Neville again!
buffet for deer 🦌 😂
Crossing the bridge bouncing caused it
That doesn't look over loaded, you lost way more grain then u said. That looks like ppl have unloaded with the tarps close and have imploded the trailer.
Looks lile a cornhusker trailer. I have witnessed 2 others do the same thing One that bounced on a bridge and busted just like this one did
Yep ...they are known for that!!
When you have a timpte salesman a mile down the road from you and tell him he is to high on his price that your gonna buy a corn husker he says I have no problem dropping my price so the road isn't blocked😂
As a truck driver from Holland, i am so surprised you guys drive with only 2 axles on those trailers, and then those full loads 😅 don't look strange to me, this could happen i mean it buckled in the middle by the looks of it.. no disrespect ment to the build quality but might want to think about using more than just 2 axles on a trailer 😳
In Australia we run tri-axle tippers and are built properly, we run 3 trailers with dollys, road trains.
@fredorico41 Those road trains always fascinated me for some reason. How much weight y'all haul at one time doing that?
@@Thomas-qh3vj
About 100 ton gross depends on the setup.
No disrespect taken! I don't know that I've ever seen a tri axle hopper bottom out here. How long are yalls trailers? Most here are around 38 to 40 feet long.
@fredorico41 That is some weight the most I can legally axle out is 25 tons here in the US
Nah thats factory its supposed to do that just stick the air hose to it and blow er up just needs some air
Dang you're exactly right! Lol
So I will ask, did this happen because there was not enough corn in the trailer to provide the structural rigidity to the sides of the box? I ask this because the sides are bent in.
I honestly don't know. We've hauled big loads and small loads before never seen this happen
Back until the 70s they put trains under trailers now to save a few dollars they stoped putting fraims under them
What do you mean trains under them?
I think you meant frames and with trailers like this and potato trailers the top and bottom square tubing along with the corrugated side panels are the frame structure and if engineered properly are just as strong as big I-beam frames. They don't use I-beams anymore not because of money but because of weight. Moving freight costs time and money so the more you can haul the better.
GUT WRENCH
Yup
Next it will be car vs deer
No kidding! Bet the deer were thick over there after that
Okay It wasn’t overloaded this time but all the times it was is what would have done the damage
This has been commented like 20 times, do you feel it was that necessary to say again?
Cargill in halls?
Yessir!
Sombitch man!, that ole girl looks like she got stressed out ( like a lotta women 🤣), just kidding, well maybe 🤔 not. Anyway, we've had a few of our chopper boxes, including one this year, collapse from hidden stress cracks. Farming. Shit happens. Loaded round bales in Green Bay a few days ago, I load and haul the skidloader with my truck while my dad pulled back the 14 bales with another. I didn't make it half back 😕 and dad calls and says that he has ran a light pole down. He turned so wide that the wagon 😳 🤣 jumped onto the curb and busted off the aluminum pole. It was rotten from the salt . Roadsalt of course. 😊
Another cardboard semi trailer.
Hey the drivers my uncle lol
Haha Brian?? He is a hell of a truck driver. I'm glad he was behind the wheel because he handled that like a champ. I'm not sure many drivers could've kept it on the road like he did.
@@LHFarmsTN yes sir Brian’s my uncle. I live in central IL.Hell of a driver drove for yellow for many many years. Seems everything worked out the best it could, here’s to a hell of farming year for 2024
That vac aint up to much.
Git a real one-!
It ain't mine!
It may have not been overloaded this time but that doesn't mean it hasn't been in the past.
Still shouldn't have happened regardless. People can get 100k permits for hauling. This trailer should've held up to much less weight than that
Not hard to work out how it broke
No big deal saw it a lot back in the 80s get a better trailer
Costs of trailers have gotten out of hand but I did have to bite the bullet and get a newer one.
Cumulative, it's not the last load that was the issue. If it's been overloaded over the years those all count to the final outcome.
It didn’t happen from a single overload. It was likely caused by 30 +- years of overloads
😢 waste of god's corn 🌽
Mr. Jones, he no good driver!!
Looks like just Old equipment used Past their lifespan.