Tractor Lifts Itself Onto a Train - Pics - Just Plain Crazy

Funny & Interesting E-mail Forwards ^ | 04 14 09 | Nick

[Notoriously Conservative]

This guy is amazing, how he was able to get it on the train, I don't know. Pictures on site

[Notoriously Conservative]

http://interestingemailforwards.blogspot.com/2009/04/tractor-lifts-itself-onto-train.html

[rstrahan]

I’ve run one of those. As long as you keep it balanced, you can pick it up and move it all over the place.

[TexasRepublic]

Not too surprising. I’ve used the front-end loader of a tractor to pull myself out of a bog while mowing grass.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

snopes debunked this.

[BallandPowder]

I can’t be sure but that looks like my ex-brother in laws rig and I have seen pictures of him doing the exact same thing when working railbed.

[Notoriously Conservative]

Snopes is a pile of garbage, and I don’t believe a word they say.

[tc45a]

Snopes is wrong on this one. I live in coal train country I have seen these backhoes up on top of the train cars.

The company selling these setups is online you can check it out.

[RSmithOpt]

Snopes is full of it......been done a while now in remote areas for track bed repair ever since the back-hoe hydraulics were beefed up.

Panzy butts have no idea what real work can be like, though, the operator is never a rookie and must practice (work his way up in height and stability control).

[Tammy8]

The heck with Snopes, I asked an expert- hubby has run equipment all his adult life and he said it’s definately doable. He said the backhoe has to be in great working order and the operator needs to know his stuff.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I watched a guy build a raised drainfield with a rig like that. I think he could have made it climb trees.

[Deaf Smith]

http://vi.sualize.us/view/5dbf81cbc966bd443a2a011a73155b4b/

[tacticalogic]

The heck with Snopes, I asked an expert- hubby has run equipment all his adult life and he said it’s definately doable. He said the backhoe has to be in great working order and the operator needs to know his stuff.

Check out the additions to the stabilizers and bucket. That thing was set up just for straddling the top of a rail car.

[Malsua]

snopes debunked this.

Got a link?

I got issues with their lefty slant, but I call debunk on your debunk. They are like Wikipedia...on non-political topics they're pretty accurate. These particular set of pics have been around a while and it appears entirely legitimate.

[Tammy8]

You are right- hubby pointed that out to me. I'm not sure why so many think Snopes is the authority on everything when they are often proven wrong.