Video clip of getting spiked on auto-raise bollards

Nov 25, 2006 22 Replies

The message from "malc" contains these words:

Yeah, the bollards have a second "fast" mode. You push the wreck over the bollard, unlock the over-ride button and launch it into next week.

It did have an engine in there, look at the bloody great puddle of oil after the truck got pulled back. If you look carefully you can see the sump behind the front axle in the shot where it shows them attaching the cables. The engine on a cargo sits about 3 feet back from the front bumper, which is why the bumper folded up with pretty much no resistance, then the truck stopped pretty much dead when the bollard met the front axle and the engine, it is only the load that carries on forward, taking the cab with it. Its almost certain that the cab had pretty much zero strength left in it on a cargo that age, they were rustbuckets from new. Pity really, apart from their tendency to crumble into a pile or red dust, they were one of the best all round trucks ever built.

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