Can These John Deere Tractors Lift A Peterbilt Semi Truck?
So let’s say you are hauling about 1,000 bushels of corn in a semi truck. Let’s say that the tractor trailer gets to a narrow spot at the top of a hill and gets run off the road by another motorist. Perhaps it was a race car, could be another tractor, maybe just another big truck. We don’t know. What we do know is that when you run off the road with that much corn, you are going to possibly end up like our friends here.
So Much Corn to Clean Up!
Now, if you do not like corn, this might make your day. I will say that I find that to be a bit odd. Corn is great. We do so much with it. Corn chips, corn nuts, corn flakes, popcorn… the list goes on and on. There is something wrong with you if you do not like it, but hey, we all have our thing. Mine is cooked broccoli. You could bring me three eighteen wheeler loads of steamed broccoli and tell me that is all I have to eat, and I would gladly prefer to die. I just don’t like it. So while I may not understand your disdain for stalks and ears, I understand not liking certain things. Anyway, as I mentioned, if you don’t like corn, the sight of this Peterbilt on its side might make your day.
Yet, you still have a mess on your hands. Big rigs are tricky that way. Once they start to roll over, all the Jake Braking in the world won’t stop them. You are left with one big mess. Especially in this case. One thousand bushels of corn will cover a lot of ground. Here is the kicker though. It has to be cleaned up. That clean up is never easy. You don’t want to clean your room as a teenager because it is a mild annoyance. You have to clean this up though, and it involves several tons of twisted metal and produce. What do you do?
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Well, if you live on the farm like our friend here… you get the biggest tractor you can find and put it to use. Uprighting a truck that weighs several tons is not a problem when
It’s Good to Be a Tractor of All Trades
Well, if you live on the farm like our friend here… you get the biggest tractor you can find and put it to use. Uprighting a truck that weighs several tons is not a problem when you use a tractor that is its equal. I could insert a shameless John Deere plug here because that is what is used to lift the resting semi truck, but I won’t. Wait, I just did. See what I did there? My apologies if you are a Case tractor loyalist. Cut me, I bleed green and yellow.
Anyway, the tractor has no problem pulling over the Peterbilt. It only takes two or three seconds. After that though, the questions roll in. Does the truck still run? How is the trailer? What happened to all of that corn? Is the driver okay?
Well I can answer all of those for you,. Yes, the driver is fine, He was run off the road in the narrow, but made it out unscathed. The truck was not moving too fast when it approached the ditch. The truck? Well, it works fine. In fact, according to Travis Kepler, the guy who posted this, they still use it to this day to make runs. The trailer? Well that is another story. It was completely totaled. It seems that 1,000 bushels of corn shifting suddenly in a trailer will give it quite a permanent face lift. At least you can get a few dollars by scrapping it out.
What Happened to All of the Corn?
Yet, the real question involves the corn. Where did it go? What did they do with it? Well, I’m about to make your day if you love corn, or ruin it if you don’t. It was saved. Most of it anyway. Travis and his crew took a large vacuum and cleared it off the side of the road. There were only about two bushels left that could not be salvaged. That is not too bad considering the trailer held 1,000 bushels. If you could get a 2% margin of error for all of your endeavors after a massive screw up, you would take it I’m sure. You might try taking a Ferrari for a test drive, try your hand at neurosurgery, or even get inside a shark cage. And before someone accusing me of putting ideas in your head, let me set the record straight. I am doing no such thing. I’m just setting your mind free. Now go find something to be 98% at. You can do it!
