Here’s another good one. Scraper spread and the d-8 was falling behind with pushing and ripping. They put the wannabe hero in the 7 to rip while he was pushing. The best scraper hand was picking up the windrow on the left and loading as far as he could on his own then waiting for the 8 to come over and finish loading, said hero decided to clack over and push him through… guy in the 8 loaded the last one, hit reverse and went to back in behind and pick him up. Didn’t look over his shoulder….. tore a hole in the hydraulic tank and knocked the fuel tank clean off, blowing out the back window and dinging up the frame. Nobody hurt fortunately but the 7 lost. 8 had a scratch on the ripper frame. I was cleaning it up and swinging one of the tanks in on that 7 when one of the guys came up and said “that’s all well and good but how do you plan on getting the smell out of that seat?” That’s how it looked when we got to it. Luckily was able to find a couple used tanks, a used window with new gaskets and fix the dinged up cab. It was still an expensive mistake though and that dozer sat out there for all of them to look at for a couple weeks waiting on parts.
