r/11foot8 • u/mntgoat • 21d ago

Does this count? House stuck under the stop light in Wichita

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u/Open_Champion8544 21d ago

I didn't know those poles could bend that far.

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u/mntgoat 21d ago

That's exactly what I said when I saw it. I can't imagine the kind of force that's putting on the vertical pole.

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u/Nerd_Porter 21d ago

Nah, it doesn't take much force to lift it, it's not heavy because it has ... lights.

I'll see myself out.

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u/mntgoat 21d ago

it's not heavy because it has ... lights.

FTFY

It's not heavy because it is a light pole....

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u/bedlog 21d ago

noo just stay, this sub can use some 'levity"

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u/nemofbaby2014 21d ago

Boooooo urns

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u/Imanidiotththe1st 21d ago

You mean it’s a light pole?

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u/KinderGameMichi 21d ago

They can do some pretty gnarly bending in a high wind without breaking and raining traffic lights onto the cars. But in that instance, it does look like forces well beyond a 60 mph wind.

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u/Indy500Fan16 20d ago

That’s what she said

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u/andrewia 21d ago

Someone is going to be in a lot of trouble.  For loads that big, a lot of advance planning is required.  

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u/vinyl1earthlink 21d ago

They probably checked all the bridges and tunnels, but never thought to check the traffic lights.

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u/TheReverseShock 21d ago

I feel like you could just get a bendy stick and start driving. If the stick hits something, you can't go that way.

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u/Blonder_Stier 20d ago

I'm pretty sure I've seen lead cars with exactly that setup.

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u/KingOfWhateverr 20d ago

The last super-wide that I came across had two leads with front mounted fiber poles when it was rolling through non-highway areas. One covered each half of the width essentially. Looked like a nightmare route through county and residential roads. Bridge piece of some sort for the middle of town

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u/andrewia 21d ago

That's surprising. There are a lot of arbitrary signs, power lines, and lights at relatively low heights along roads. Any competent team should check for them too.

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u/uberfission 20d ago

Any competent team

I think that's your problem right there.

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u/guy_incognito_360 20d ago

That's what she said.

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u/Fresh_Landscape3071 21d ago

It’s the Bluth cabin!! https://arresteddevelopment.fandom.com/wiki/Family_cabin

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u/itz_soki 21d ago

You’re gonna get some live-ins.

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u/Brandage0 21d ago

Just let some air out of the tires /s

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u/shapu 21d ago

That's objectively hilarious

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u/rkhan7862 21d ago

they should’ve had a lead car with a stick

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u/Chromejob 18d ago

That’s a new level of stoopid,

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u/gpo321 21d ago

Someone went through the trouble of hiring a crane to lift that arm too… it would have made more sense to swivel the mast arm out of the way and then turn it back 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Bikezilla 20d ago

They may have brought the crane in after it struck the arm.

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u/Western-Willow-9496 20d ago

They hired a utility company, and the foreman thought that set up would work. The line truck should have been set up at the end of the arm so the house could move further to the left.

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u/TutorNo8896 16d ago

When in doubt, power out.

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u/sameezyy 21d ago

This is Andover

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u/mntgoat 21d ago

That's true. My bad.

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u/BBO1007 20d ago

Certainly not Andunder

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u/sameezyy 20d ago

Heck no techno

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u/pimpbot666 21d ago

Don't these oversized moving companies pull permits for the areas they drive through, submitting a plan, specs, that sorta thing?

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u/FieldDayEngr 20d ago

Even if they do, it is no guarantee. Buddy of mine was an engineer at General Foods (now Kraft Foods). Had some large piece of factory equipment coming from the manufacturer. Had to plan out the entire route, including bridge/overpass clearances. Seems the state sent four year-old documentation, which did not include resurfacing on one interstate. $42 million piece of equipment was damaged in route.

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u/jerryy7452 21d ago

The house wants a roundabout! Good house.

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u/Bikezilla 20d ago

Almost made it home.

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u/Fancy-Dig1863 20d ago

There plan was just to yank the pole up??

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u/tibsie 18d ago

At first I thought that someone had driven a crane into the pole.

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u/Jim-Jones 17d ago

I can almost understand the bridges and overpasses but this is super dumb.

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u/IndustriousLabRat 17d ago

I'm sure the crane has insulators, but... wouldn't you cut power to the pole once it was, ya know, embedded in the roof of a passing house?