"Rome wrote:

I hate them stupid ass rounde bouts! they are putting them in around here on state routes! what a joke! semis are driving right over the berms and sides, they hardly have any room to make the half circle. We sure have some idiot hiway engineers these days, everything looks good on there computers and there "hi tech" drawings but in reality just doesn't work! Even small bridges on hiway routes they cant get right, the approaches are all uneven with the bridge deck, trucks slam bam over them and the next thing the concrete deck is full stress cracks.

"dpendzic" wrote:

Hey Mike be careful--heard today that a water truck out there at the fire rolled over and killed the driver.

A few years back at one of our pine barrens wildfire I worked in conjunction with a water wagon which was an articulated Cat that looked like a scraper but had a huge tank and pump it was pulling. My brush truck would go in first and knock the head and flames down, dozer would follow and cut a rough fire road, and the Cat would come along and kill any fire along the edge of the fire road---all under a swarm of crop dusters that were dropping there loads over us---that was intense fun!!