Concrete truck rolls over. Pumping concrete with Muddyfeet 

Oh come on. I bet you’ll be back. 🤣🤣🤣

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping I'm not bitching ( yes I am 😁) , I realize y'all got your equipment in there ..and probably took your time ..which is smart . But these concrete companies are crazy ! I remember back in 1985 , we were pouring a large pool deck and side patios , along with a lot of footings for brick retaining walls , columns etc . During the Pool deck and patio part ( we poured the other with on site mixers ) , the house was on a very steep hill .. and really no better access in the front .. actually , the only access WAS where we had the trucks go , to get up the hill .. like I said , a very steep grade . Long story short , the concrete company sent 8 trucks ( we actually needed only 3 9yarders for the pour ) ..but the younger drivers kept trying to race to the top of the hill , like they were in dune buggies ! I kept telling them to gradually go up , in low gear .. a little at a time . Well , the first 3 ended up messed up , the drive shafts were compromised.. An older driver finally got there and he drove the next three trucks ,one at a time ..no problems with each pour .. My point is , that makeshift driveway would send me into another realm .. I would not allow trucks to back into it , just knowing how bad some of these drivers are ..

In hindsight , I would've gotten a crane pump .. but we had a concrete contractor that poured the pool deck .. he didn't want to pay the extra money . I realize that construction can get out of hand , when inexperienced people are involved .. thank God for the old timers ! 👍

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping why didnt you dummys tie it to the tree so it didnt flip over? You guys drinking to much?

100% with you on this. absolute clown show

The driver should have used a backer. Then we wouldn’t needed the wrecker driver.

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping yeah that was the first mistake but the second mistake was as stated , the wrecker operator should of had that line in first thing once arriving. He helped cause the truck from just being bogged to a write off

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping your road was junk. The driver should have refused to use the road.

Ive never recovered a truck in my life, but id say Ron Pratt would have done that Palladini971.

@@duggydo wasn’t my road Hotrod. We where there just to pump the concrete

He was off the road dipshit

@@logany.2809 read the comment dipshit

@@Andrew-co6wn I did other wise I wouldn’t comment on it dipshit watch the video if he would have been in the center of drive he woulda been fine 100% drivers fault

@@logany.2809 Have you ever driven a mixer?

@@havenzhai5187 nope but deal with them, dumptrucks, septic trucks everyday

Great attitude! Drive safe buddy

The first thing we used to do at big job sights was strip out all the loam or topsoil and put in a good road ,if u don't do that then u run into all kinds of problems

Yea......it also doesn't hurt to have someone in charge that knows what he's doing.

Dont believe someone else Grant's you your powers to drive on. You have the wheel not anyone else.

@@cr0nikgingii479 do have a blessed day in the lord 🙏

I think your right

i had 5m3 of crushed rock delivered to my house. the truck literally dug own 6inch into my asphalt drive way. it may looks solid, but sometimes it isnt.

That's what a good driver should know

Looked like he drove right off the edge to me. Started trying to steer out of it but way too late and just kept going as it got worse.

u just need competent drivers

They said they were afraid to spin to unload, I assume that's the other direction, but that would have loaded the uphill side which seems helpful. I agree it looks like the way it was turning would weight the downhill side. Too bad they didn't ask us.

Could have put the load off in the ditch passenger side first off. Let it run climbing up the drum sure cost some money. Poor road and the driver flipping lights on was just enough to run er off.

Exactly that would’ve prevented the truck to roll over just stop the drum and that truck would still be on it’s wheels!!

I drive a concrete in Corpus. Have for about ten years now. He should have discharged the load. With the drum spinning in the "charge" mode, the fins have the concrete high on above the drivers left shoulder. Also the spinning drum has something called "transitional torque" on the trucks frame wanting to tip the truck in the same direction. Think of it like shooting a gun. It has an equal an opposite reaction (the bullet goes one way and the gun is forced the other). As the drum forces the 40,000 pounds of concrete in one direction, where the drum mounts to the frame, it torques the frame in the other direction. Thats why mixer trucks can take left hand curves at higher speeds that they can right curves. By reversing his drum, it shifts the torque forcing the right wheels down and also shifts the concretes weight from high left to high right which also helps hold that side down. As the concrete discharges it lessens the total weight on the truck which also helps. Sometimes it's better to lose the load, rather than loose the truck. The driver mentioned being afraid to reverse the drum, that is simply not knowing how your truck operates. All that said, that entrance was not very well built by the contractor to support that much weight. Plus the driver should have had a spotter and been backing slower. It was possibly recoverable at the start, but it's better not to get your truck into that situation in the first place.

@@stevengibson2251 I was thinking shouldn't he discharge? simply for getting the truck lighter, but I didn't think about how the direction of the drum shifting the weight! make sense, I just started driving a mixer and I feel like I have been working on my driving up until now, I drove dump trucks, end dumps, flat beds, and tractor Trailer. 5 years now so yes I still need experience but I am careful, to me I feel like he was to close to the edge ? he was really close

My thoughts exactly. The tow truck driver did a horrible job. He knew he messed up. He didn't even have a line hooked up too secure the rig to prevent this.

@@15rricci could have strapped it to that tree to keep it from going over

@@ClassicTrucker exactly. Some people shouldn't be towing. Especially if you have no clue what your doing.

Urgency? The truck is insured, the load is insured, the job is probably insured. Nothing there worth rushing for and risking a life altering decision being made in the haste. Once things go wrong and all bodies are clear, it's best to understand that the truck, or plane, or whatever it is belongs to the insurance company now.

Them boys are lazy asf. I don't know bout yall but I would have tied to a tree immediately to anchor the truck and keep from rolling.....not wait 3 hours for the wreaker to get their.....fuck it....ain't my truck or money invested.

Path?

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping 🤣

Goat trail

Hell that things wider than my last driveway before I moved. Now imagine driving a big truck with a 26 foot box on the back of it down that driveway and theres a sharp 90 in the drive and 18 inches or so off the drive theres a fence with a shallow ditch against the driveway. Oh and on the opposite side of the turn there's trees right against the edge of the drive. Anyone think they could make that turn? I know I can because I have. Had to deliver a load of brand new furniture there. I will say this though I had 2 people watching my corners for me. And I do know I do not want to do that one again.

Yes you probably aren’t familiar with post tension cables. It was a surprise to me also the first time I seen them. But they get an engineered stamp for them when rebar won’t.

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping you beat me to it I watch your videos all the time good work definitely underrated

I agree they only want the mud. That road was shit also in a situation like this the driver should have stopped the drum

Ya I agree and also who's the dumb shit that would back up in there instead of a simple turn around at the end they wanna back down a small road what a stupid ass strait up

Little do you know I’ve had 30 ft roads with gravel and they still run off the road

You can clearly see the driver did not stay on the tire tracks and started moving left while he was turning his work lights on. I’ve backed my mixer many times over worse roads than that. Lean to left = stop your drum and put in discharge just enough to get that mud onto the right side.

@@heknows5418 that's y you have someone back these rookies in making $20 ........shit..20 yrs ago we didn't make shit & u couldn't screw up !!!

Thank you so much

I agree with you and I the tree wouldn't have snapped or pulled over if it was tied at the base of the tree

They were lazy to act instead put ropes and wait backup tow truck

You are so right! Imagine you drive such a bulky and !!!extremely!!! heavy truck and you don' take 3 minutes to check where you are backing up into.

Should have put it in discharge and shifted the weight back. It would have lost the load, but oh well.

texans can't think that far in advance.

Wrecker guy should have snatched blocked it to some of them trees on the opposite side and waited for the rotator to arrive. Just my opinion

@@artmont9043 he could have but the weight of the truck plus the concrete would have pulled those trees out of the ground like you would pull a stick out of mud. Trying to offload would be a good idea except that just the motion change of the concrete would have made the truck go over as well. This was pretty much a case of it's going over no matter what you do. It's not a matter of if it's a matter of when it's going over. Feel bad for the driver of that truck. And I know the tow truck driver was sick when it went.

Jeffrey Murdock and that’s very true but it would also have bought some time. You would be surprised just how much by doubling/snatche blocking to some trees/anchor weight it will hold. Plus running low line and top lines would have bought a whole lot of time. I was a medium wrecker driver but also assisted heavys in this situation I believe it could have been saved. Nevertheless glad the driver wasn’t hurt and concrete co. Getting a hearty bill. Win win situation

I work with concrete trucks all the time and have been doing so for years (I'm a testing technician, among other things), and I was just about to say you had it backward, but then I looked closely at the video to see the rotation direction, and you are correct. All the concrete trucks I work with around here discharge when the drum spins clockwise as seen from the output end, and this one is set up backwards from that. Spinning the drum counter-clockwise in this case would have shifted the weight dramatically to the right, so I agree with you completely. That means that when the guys at the site were talking about not wanting to discharge for fear of shifting the weight to the truck's left weren't thinking straight. They almost certainly could have saved the day by quickly getting it unloaded.

You got it

Exactly what I was thinking....Hahahahaha.....ET

No kidding, you’ve got a pump truck sitting there on the clock plus 8-10 labors and concrete finishers just standing around on the clock. When you do start pouring concrete that day you’ll probably run into a bunch of overtime because of the delay, who’s paying for that? If you don’t pour it that day those laborers and finishers lose a day of pay. So they lose out because of a driver who can’t back a truck up straight. Seems like the concrete company should eat any extra costs because their driver caused the delay.

Bills the best I got.

Alex Frankl so far that has been the only accident out there. Their has been a lot of trucks in and out of there.

The road was fine untill one driver decided to go to close to the edge and cause the damage the proof is two heavy trucks already made it !!!!!!

I think that’s a fair comment. Thanks for stopping by.

Dude, totally right. I mean, how is it that a heavy wrecker operator is sent out with all that recovery gear yet not the know how. Common sense tells you, if your goal is to recover the truck WITHOUT allowing it to tip over, and its currently still advancing on tipping over, the first thing you do is stop it from tipping and most effective method would seem to be securing the top in the opposite direction of its roll. Oh look, is that a tree right there? Or get the wrecker out that way and pull out 100' of cable. For a second there i thought he was gonna just try and hold the truck from tipping by sitting on it. 😳

@@distant2near WTF SilentScream. Give theses guys a break. First of all it was a very dangerous situation. The wrecker crew is there to help & do it in a way to not damage anyone's equipment in the recovery process.

@@philsmidwestclassiccars150 I dont know about you but one would think that a professional / Specialist would show up to handle something like that. Not my profession. Not my field of expertise yet I could tell it wasn't handled properly. But, hey, maybe we should cut the guy some slack. Everybody has to start somewhere. I'm sure next time will be different. Thumbs up for a great try. 😐 BUT, the cement truck company may not be as supportive since they paying the bill.

Driver here first priority is don't get hurt as driver or wrecker easier to pay repairs than hospital or have a fatality

Think they where trying to save as many trees as possible. Just guessing

First thing i do , excellent access and crushed rock over the site , theres no excuses cause its an inexpensive thing to do .

Alex Frankl what do you do with the rock at the end of the job?

Poor site work

Michael Maas leave it, you want a good stable driveway!

Thanks man

Hey man! Glad you found us. Good to visit with you today. Be watching for the video. You might had made your big screen daybu. Lol

@@MuddyfeetTV lol that would be cool! We almost had one roll over today. One of our guys got stuck and when they were pulling him out with a dozer the truck sank bad on one side. Made my mouth go dry watching it.

Lol. Hope your doing good! Stay cool.

Their can be some frustrating times.

I could see that

And they’re all wheel drive! You can Baja them anywhere!

@@sjaderlund probably was he drove off of the road couldn't tell, needless to say, them ready mix trucks weigh alot, good thing no one got hurt

No the driver went to close to the edge like any made up road well any road heavy weight on the edge is always a problem

No , the soil was uncompacted and the so called road was un compacted and too narrow for heavy equipment to operate safely .

KINGJB3100 yep

The driver also turned his spot lights on just before he went in the ditch. I think he was slightly distracted looking for the light switch. If he turned the spots on before starting to backup this may have ended differently. Shit happens!!

Well sites are the same way. Stuck belly dumps before on soft ground.

@@rfusco9251 Why would he need the spots on anyway? The slide off happened in broad daylight. I agree with your assumption that the driver was distracted.

@@philsmidwestclassiccars150 it looks like it was dawn. I wouldn't say broad daylight. I think that he was the second truck in at the beginning of the pour early in the morning. Definitely distracted.

You never know what’s going to happen around here.

Yes sir

Urankjj, your right, all the different mixer drivers I was ever around would radio dispatch and get a company rep out there to make the call if the base road was questionable. A concrete company rep might just send lighter loads out that job. Whatever it takes!

hired by their willingness to work the cheapest.

If you have ever done this type of work you would know that drivers have to put up with this all the time . Some times as the driver you have to say no. And usually it doesn’t go well with your boss .

@@mikem1956 all the other drivers made it through fine.

You can clearly see he went of the tire tracks and into the ditch , drivers error he should not of reversed without a banksman , some sites you just have to say no too and it doesn't go well with the site boss normally but its not there job or life there risking .... ive been in many situations similar to this its never easy

@Jonathan Craig yeah! lets make highway lanes 100 ft wide and line the world in mattresses so no one ever has to fear repercussions for their actions. Holy fuck you are stupid.

Fortunately I’ve been sitting on these videos for a little bit. But every day is an interesting one for us for sure.

I did a few jobs back the day that I look back on and feel lucky. This guy I worked for had my brother and I in an 8 foot deep trench following behind a concrete truck pouring a trench footing. His idea of safety was staying behind the truck in case it rolled. Never mind no shoring. Lucky we didn’t get buried.

Junior Soprano you’re gullible for going that deep without a trench box. Never on this earth would I chance it

@@jeff7764, a lot of young guys don’t know that when they first start out. That’s why they need the old guys around to teach them how to be smart and safe!

Sorry for your loss buddy but your right

Nice place for sure

Thanks for commenting

Him trying to discharge would’ve rolled her over sooner. That driveway was trash as most driveways and construction entrances are for mixers.

Yeah. discharging might have worked, but he's right on top of a creek and you know the kind of fines governments like to levy for stuff like that.

Shannon K thank you

The road was wide enough, it just wasn’t sound.

Finally... someone with a sense of what "holding" the truck would take !!!! all these "experts" saying it would take 50 tons to hold it from tipping are all wrong, for christ sakes the truck doesn't even WEIGH 50 tons!

Mattywho that trucks fate was sealed once the wheels stopped turning for guys to say the tree would hold is speculation. The truck was to unstable to be climbing on. The biggest take away from this is no one got hurt. Any effort to be a hero would up the risk of injury or death.

There's really no "vibration" from a slowly-turning drum. Besides, that loose soil at the roadway edge began a creeping failure right away, and nothing short of removing or lessening the applied weight was going to stop that from happening. Note that the drum was turning the wrong way, though. Reversing it (to discharge (just waste the load off the edge of the road)) would have shifted the weight substantially to the right, and lightened the truck in short order too. I agree with the rest, in principle, but I doubt there was enough time to set up anchors (like snatch blocks), even if no appraisal time had been needed (and it always is needed).

Needed a backer

tony Denton arms to dangerous to be climbing on that truck

That little tree wouldnt stand a chance.

not much gonna stop a concrete truck that wants a belly scratch. they be very top heavy.

Mr Fixit 😂

It would have pulled that tree right out of the ground. You must not have any idea of how much that mixer loaded with concrete weighs.

it would have snapped instantly.

I wouldn't have waited for wrecker. I would have ran cable through woods hooked 2 or 3 mixers together. Held truck then unloaded it. Mud is mixed in drum on left side then reverse to right side to unload. Then pull it out. That was lousy road to be backing down in the dark. Company should have told owner to fix road or piss off before they went in. I use to run a mixer 40 years ago and own a bunch of dump trucks and equipment now. I turn down many loads that are risky. Good drivers won't have trouble but everyone is not good at backing in.

If they would have put in discharge the weight would have been on the passenger side.

100% agree on that.

@@garyevans718 Common Gary. Who are you kidding? Do you have any idea what a fully loaded mixer weighs? I don't, but I can tell you this much. they don't make a strap or chain big enough to hold a loaded mixer up from sliding off the side of that driveway. Watch closely as the foundation under the road gives way due to the shear weight of the loaded mixer. Attaching anything from the tow truck to that mixer would have more than doubled the catastrophe. You seen that not only the tow operator but so did others have to run to get out of the way once the mixer started to fall over.

No friggin way, y'all should be embarrassed and not in business; idiocracy!

@@01mustang05 what did we do wrong???

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping Wrong? Y'alls parents were and/or are dumb, as were y'alls teachers and your countrymen. Mistakes are being repeated, perpetuated even, instead of avoided and contributes to the shit show society that fails to evolve into something actually better instead of worse that the majority is too messed up to see. Too deep and not understandable for you? Likely is; which is more proof how messed up the majority is, well at least to those who have the insight to notice at the very least, while we all fail to do much good, while even child abuses continue and we continue to do stupid shit that most of us don't see as stupid.

@@01mustang05 Thank you so much for watching and commenting. You have a blessed day!!!

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping You're reaction is even more criminal; it's not ok for you and the majority to dismiss ugly truths and let injustices, torture, and most concerningly child abuses continue by people at every level of this so-called society!

I don’t think he had enough truck to hold that mixer I think if it went it would have taken him with him.

He would have had to secure it at the top somewhere enough that he could have dropped the load at least

Agree 100%. Guy had plenty of time to stabilize it and instead just sat there and watched it go. Strap on the rear drivers side tandems, up over the drum and then through the woods to the road.

If that was me drivin that truck, Id of got out just before it started tilting, put my body weight against it and pushed that bitch back up on the road.

cntsles fabrication that would have been the best thing they could have done.

Awesome!!! Thanks for watching. I’ve never been around front discharging trucks but I think their is a place for them.

It had piers

Tow truck driver was moving way too slow!!!!!!! GTF!!!!!! Time and the potential of the rollover were ticking!!!!!! Fire that driver! Use those trees to secure the concrete truck!!!! He had chains, a towing truck, and heavy-duty ropes!!!!!

Your right the driver should’ve anchored the mix truck to one of the trees with a pulley and used the weight of both trucks to hold it until the bigger truck was on scene to assist with recovery

Set the tow truck up down the road and pull the line through the trees and pull on the side, no need to sit there and wait for the concrete to stiffen up and make the truck more unstable, also put the drum in discharge to move the mud to the high side. many mistakes added to this nightmare. A bit of concrete on the ground would be easier to clean up than the whole load and the truck in the ditch.

Dude was totally clueless. You can tell he's used to towing rigs from the side of the highway, not this. A heavy vehicle recovery service really ought to be better than this because things like this DO happen. Its like being an EMT and letting a patient bleed out while you slowly go get stuff from your ambulance.

Was nice!

Elite Earthworks LLC I agree 100%

Will see tomorrow

Theirs another episode for tomorrow

I agree. People are constantly trying to put you somewhere you where not meant to be

He needed a backer.

I really don’t know.

All roads aren’t the same

Yea D J. Bull Shit. The first truck got in there no problem.

@@philsmidwestclassiccars150 The more a road gets used, the more it deteriorates. Just saying.

@@Cardi185 Yes I know that. It was a soft gravel driveway also. I only commented as to the first mixer making the driveway with no problem. If you look at the tire tracks in the soft gravel, this guy didn't slide off the edge. He backed up off to the edge of the shoulder where the loose ground cut loose due to the shear weight of the loaded mixer. This driveway looked wide enough to handle the load, if it was kept in the center of the driveway. Each & every driver has different backing up characteristics. Some are better than others. With a mixer, there is no opportunity for a mistake when backing, nor braking. It's your on top of your game, or it's a mess. I have never even considered driving a mixer, tanker, or bucket, but am qualified with my CDL. I do have 30 years as an OTR Driver with 11 on 48 foot, spread axle flat bed delivering building materials to job sites. The other 19 are 53 foot dry van, mainly hauling paper loads.

@@philsmidwestclassiccars150 Ok, I understand you now.

I’m sure had you been there none of this would have happened.

@Jim Burnett Bullshit......Operator error.

Yep

Yep. We pulled another boom pump up to the road , laid some hose out to the other boom and got the job done

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Thank you for watching

Yeh was gunna say, Keep em Coming! 😂😂😂

Not their fault at all

Notice his work lights go on just before he goes off road, probably looked down to turn em on. Thats my guess, only button i would probably have to look for aswell.

Yep

I’ve learned to quit saying I thought I seen it all. 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks man!!!

lol

I drive mixer trucks and been in sticky situations. That’s how I ended up in this video. But before driver backed up he should have walked the area, second his back up lights were off third, he should gone slower . If I would of been in this situation I would of unloaded the truck right away and got the weight off. It’s only 1500.00. Also it would have shifted the weight to the passenger side

Driver probably had to go clean up after that one lol !

No cement trucks were damaged in this video!!

😅😅

💯 would of probly saved the truck if they even emptied half of it!!!

You can’t because you’ll have to spin the wheel

@@Chance8888 what wheel?

@@Chance8888 you talking about the drum😂

Did you see how much the road was crowning first?

Have you ever driven a mixer? Sending a number of trucks over a soft road like that, can make them less stable and more dangerous.

Texas Dirt wouldn’t hurt anything.

sight managers or contractors doing the project likes to skimp on the basic crap like this all the time then bitch and moan you tore up the dirt driveway corners. They never understand because they drove their 70k pickup trucks in there no problem, lol. hell i had one tell me he made the pad so big he could turn his pickup around up there and couldn't understand why a front discharge readymix couldn't turn around lmao

@@caseydman4651 been there oh yea lots of room. get in there and first thing they say is oh that truck a little bigger than i thought. how about when they make a turn around and you can barely parallel park a pick up in it. thats cute you gonna turn around a civic there?

Some videos you see guy use radar and some you see post tension cables.

No doubt. That road is an accident waiting to happen. Unacceptable.

I'm glad I drive an Oshkosh front discharge. Backing up to pour every time would be really annoying. 6x6 is really nice too. :)

It was mostly driver error, he should have stayed in the*middle* of the track. Took it too easy!.

@@johnhhinton5473 he was in the middle

@@benjamin-rn5zn only until he wasn't... Have another look at the vid...

Highly doubt that ! Truckers are responsible on where they enter , no trucker ever does something they are not comfortable with . If they think something is fishy they call their supervisor and ask for advice . This driver went in confident and somehow ended way to far to the right . The road way was more then wide and stable if only he’d stayed centered .

@@majoralpha1015 Sorry bud , that is not more than wide , around here that is called Just Enough Space , or no difference between a inch or a mile theory , by the MOL , that is putting driver safety at risk , there for the job is shut down until road is done properly or "Just Enough Space" is resolved .

I've driven on worse narrow path dirt roads in the oil field. Where there is oil they will make a path no matter what. Through ravines and creeks Driver didn't pay attention is the call

I’m not sure. Their are some experts on here though that might be able to answer your question.

Thanks for your response. Enjoy your channel👍

Grobby43 thanks man!

GoPro 6

Thanks for watching!!!

I think it’s shared res

No amount of prep can stop a incompetent driver not watching where he is going...

And thats why your called a wheel holder....

It was as n option

@@MuddyfeetConcretePumping Looked like an option to me. I drove truck and am sure that concrete truck could have maneuvered around to get aligned properly. The truck should have been shut off. The constant vibration helped the ground to give way.

Lots of great ideas. To bad you weren’t there!

I doubt the concrete was dry in that short time.

@@trr4488 the reason I say it probably dried is because the only way to get it out is with the engine running to power the hydraulics. You tip over any truck built after 2014 and the oil comes out of the pan and into the cylinders, air to air cooler, turbo, emissions system, it covers the inside of everything. Especially when it’s still running like that on its side. The truck can be set back right side up, but you have no way of knowing if the engine is going to run away, seize, hydro lock, etc. If any one of several sensors get covered in oil, and you won’t know unless you remove them and look, the engine will go into limp mode. Then your stuck at a max rpm of idle. So you are correct about the concrete not drying in the amount of time it took for the events in the video to take place, but it’s the aftermath that keeps the drum from turning. Leading to dry concrete. I asked a concrete truck fleet manager one time why they don’t install a quick connect and ball valve on the lines going to the drum motor, so any sister truck can power the drum of any sister truck. It’s an easy install and the several $4k-$10k bills they pay every year to have concrete air hammered out of drums would pay for the installs. It’s simple math, but habit and tradition still prevail.

I was thinking the same thing. The tow driver went low he needed to find a way to pull high. I think if he was on the road up past the drive. He could have run a cable through the woods to the back top of the drum. Your right that using the other cement truck and hooking to the top of the tipping truck might have stabilized it. At least long enough until the boom wrecker arrived. I think if the cement dries that truck with the bad motor, other possible damage, and a drum full of cement might be a write off.