I was running the little loader up on top of the quarry one day feeding a little screening plant. In the quarry was the big loader doing his usual thing with the haul trucks keeping the big rock plant happy with rock to smush. The yard loader was in the yard doing load out for customer trucks. Yard loader calls me on CB and says to shut my operation down and load trucks in the yard, no biggie, off I go to the yard, On the way I pass the quarry and see that the big loader has gathered up a rock twice the size of his bucket and probably 50% heavier than it could lift, but the rock was in the way and he wasn't gonna let it go until it was out of the way. Yard loader that was middle sized had his bucket on the rear bumper of the big loader trying to keep the big loader bucket with rock off the ground as they moved it to an out of the way place :rolleyes:. I just kept movin' to the yard :lol:.
Big loader lifts rock, rear wheels come off the ground, middle loader puts bucket on bumper and his front wheels come off the ground, and off they went. We sold that rock for a breakwater/jetty at the local nuke plant, had to be loaded with a crane on to a low bed trailer. Rock was so large truck and trailer could not pull on the truck scale in a normal fashion. 17 tons it weighed :lol:.
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Big, medium, me :lol: