RIP, Girly Truck

[GAnthony]

By witness they meant watch the body being put in the oven and it's door being closed. Not the same thing.

There's an abandoned nut house a few miles south of here with some ATV trails nearby.

In the corner of the property there's some old maintenance buildings with pumps and air compressors & a small sewage treatment plant with trees growing in it and stuff.

There was a big cast iron crematorium big enough to roast an elephant in, with a smoke stack that's still standing. Lots of rumors & conspiracy theories about that.

My neighbor's brother stole it for scrap iron about 5 years ago. Said it took him 2 days to cut it up and haul it to the recycling place. I bet he spent more on gasoline, oxygen and acetylene than he got from the scrap metal.

yes, it would have been a closed door, once the fiberboard casket dad was in, got rolled in.

 

[Duck]

yes, it would have been a closed door, once the fiberboard casket dad was in, got rolled in.

When my friend Eric died, his cousin Brad mixed a pinch of his ashes in ink and got a tattoo with it.

 

[Mathias]

Tradition,ritual and superstition .Different culture different style.In asia people believe you reborn one more time . So you have to bring many think with you in your coffin when you pass away .for get a better life So they bring real money,car,home,fake gold,etc....
May be if some one need a sexy women for the next life , you can bring a barbie with you what ever .......

 

[Geranimojess]

May be if some one need a sexy women for the next life , you can bring a barbie with you what ever .......

Each to his own.......

 

[GAnthony]

Tradition,ritual and superstition .Different culture different style.In asia people believe you reborn one more time . So you have to bring many think with you in your coffin when you pass away .for get a better life So they bring real money,car,home,fake gold,etc....
May be if some one need a sexy women for the next life , you can bring a barbie with you what ever .......

didn't the Egyptian Kings take thier pets, slaves and soldiers as well..????

at least..in the movies they do...!!!!!!

 

[Injun]

Was finally able to say my thanks and goodbyes today.

This truck saved my life.

 

[ironpony]

Well done, fo sure.

 

[Injun]

I took some sage with me. She deserved at least that.

 

[Mathias]

Was finally able to say my thanks and goodbyes today.

This truck saved my life.

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Really impressive but what happen exactly with this truck ?

 

[Injun]

Really impressive but what happen exactly with this truck ?

This:

Yesterday evening, I was on my way back to the yard when a white car swerved into my lane and hit me head-on. The guy in the car died probably instantly. I'm not going to speculate as to why he did this, even though I have enough details to surmise. Suffice to say, the WSP determined that I did everything possible to avoid the crash and have zero culpability in it. At some point after all the dust settles, I will tell all the details.

Girly didn't make it, either. She caught fire and burned to the frame in a matter of minutes. I was able to unfastened my seat belt and bail out the passenger door, losing one shoe in the process before she was fully involved. I came out of it with a few scrapes and minor burns, then spent the rest of the night peeing, blowing, giving statements and then getting home.

Swift is 100% behind me on this, although I did contact my own attorney to have as an advisor. Now, it's time to get my bearings, learn how to use a new phone and figure out what's nexthe.

That was a good truck. I'll miss her.

 

[Duck]

Is that just the camera angle or is the tractor frame actually bent & sagging in the middle?

 

[GAnthony]

Is that just the camera angle or is the tractor frame actually bent & sagging in the middle?

i just had to re-look at what you said, i didn't notice it earlier. certainly does look like it's bent at or near the exhaust stack area.

 

[ironpony]

Its curved alright. The heat of the fire caused the steel to soften to the point it sagged. The commonly used figure for the melting point of steel is 2500° F - obviously it didn't get that hot, but you know that the frame members were glowing cherry red to orange for them to deform like that.

 

[Injun]

Is that just the camera angle or is the tractor frame actually bent & sagging in the middle?

I don't think it's the camera angle. It was a very hot fire and that fuel tank suffered forceful rupture.

 

[Tazz]

And if I recall where you landed it was in a ditch. Probably bowed to conform to the terrain it was sitting on.

 

[Duck]

i just had to re-look at what you said, i didn't notice it earlier. certainly does look like it's bent at or near the exhaust stack area.

Yep.

Now I'm curious about the metallurgy of truck frames.

I know they're tempered or case hardened. I also know that the fire would anneal those frame rails, so they would become no stronger than regular hot rolled steel C-channel beams of that dimension.

But I don't think the loss of the temper would make them bend just from the weight of the cab. The empty trailer's weight was near the drive axles & the engine block mostly on the steer axle. There wouldn't be any significant weight on the center of the frame where it appears to be bent.

And I don't think burning fiberglass & diesel fuel will be hot enough to weaken them to the point they bend unladen frame rails with no engine torque or cornering or braking forces on them... unless the fire was fanned by a significant wind. The side skirts would've been melted away quickly, allowing airflow under there.

It's not like the WTC towers. Those vertical beams were heated by burning jet fuel which is almost the same as diesel, but 1000 feet off the ground right on the coastline it's getting blasted with wind even on a calm day. You can tell by the smoke in the pictures. The WTC tower beams were also carrying EXTREME amounts of weight. So they'd fail at a lower temperature than an unladen truck frame, but were fanned by wind too. It's why the 2nd tower that got hit collapsed before the first one did. It was hit lower so there was more weight on the beams at the point where they were being heated.

I'm guessing there was some wind that day, or the rails were bent before the fire even heated them. She did say she was momentarily airborne.

 

[Duck]

Its curved alright. The heat of the fire caused the steel to soften to the point it sagged. The commonly used figure for the melting point of steel is 2500° F - obviously it didn't get that hot, but you know that the frame members were glowing cherry red to orange for them to deform like that.

Do you think burning fiberglass & diesel would heat them til they're glowing red though?

I think it would take some significant wind to oxygenate the fire for it to get that hot.

I bet that right side frame rail bent just from getting airborne & landing in a ditch.

 

[GAnthony]

Do you think burning fiberglass & diesel would heat them til they're glowing red though?

I think it would take some significant wind to oxygenate the fire for it to get that hot.

I bet that right side frame rail bent just from getting airborne & landing in a ditch.

sure, at speed, no control of steering, deepness and width of the ditch, all can add up to a bent frame,

 

[ironpony]

Depending on how the trailer ended up, the frame members could easily have ended up under compression - the weight of the trailer pushing against the tractor. Add some wind, get those beams good 'n hot, and yeah... they could sag like that.

 

[Injun]

The rear drives and trailer wheels didn't leave the road surface. The center axle was off the road and the truck stopped in a significant left yaw-nose down angle with the trailer straight in line to the truck. The truck did not straddle the ditch. It was breezy, but not windy.

An hour after the crash, something under the truck was still glowing red. Probably the frame.