Northeast Nebraska | wayneNWAR - 2/17/2012 22:23 No bigger than that bridge looks I bet the cost to replace with culverts would probably be less than the damages and tow bill cost. It was/is what is typical around here...a minimum maintenance road, low tonnage bridge that is older, little to no inspections done (Unless asked for) and if he was like us, he'd gone across that bridge before without issue... but the damage from the termites, the additional weight to one side and it was more than it could take.
If I remember correctly, after they pulled him back up and out, he backed it down the road, went the other way and started planting again with little to no real dmamage done to his planter or his tractor. They removed the front end weights so when it went backwards it wouldn't drag up front and that was all they really had to do... |
Be careful with that big new planter on those old bridges!
