Jackson Jambalaya

Wow. Thank God no one was hurt

Slow news day KF? Illusions, thankfully, no longer exists (Woodville native here). It will, however, affect access to the already extreme hinterlands of western Wilkinson County.

Is that a county bridge or a state bridge?

This will be happening more and more the way MDOT is run .
Mississippi is years behind in so many things.....

Rig too heavy?

Oh well, can I sue Southwest Airlines for my missed crossing of the river?

Everyone else seems to be sueing them, maybe they wouldn't notice and just offer me a few free ticket vouchers for a quick settlement.

With only 25 secondary homes on the far side, one has to wonder what that rig was going to be used for...bridge repair?

The bottom feeding class action sharks will be coming out from under their rocks to cash in. But the plaintiffs will only receive pennies on the dollar due to all of those investigative and administrative expenses.

A work over rig (oilfield) is one hell of a heavy piece of equipment. Some of you may or may not notice them broke down on the side of the roads at times. The majority of the weight is ahead of center and mainly over the front axles when it is layer down in its rack for transportation. Most of the tower is well extended beyond the drivers cab which places too much weight on the two front steering axles and the 4 tires on the front where there are eight tires on the rear. Many of these work over rigs collapse their front axles when they hit a bump like an approachment to a bridge or expansion joints causing the front end to jump up and down, which in turn collapses the front axles and causes the rig to wreck or in this case place too much pressure on the bridge as it bounces. I’ve seen it happen too many times. These things are very dangerous to travel on any road.

It used to be a bridge over troubled water, but now it is water under a troubled bridge (with apologies to Art and Paul).

“Secondary homes” ie high dollar hunting camps. World class whitetail hunting. That county is truly a step back in time. As much or more so as Issaquena or some of the other desolate, desperately poor counties of the delta. Was over there earlier this week not too far from that bridge.

There's a couple of million dollar+ deer camps accessed by that bridge, as well as a few high dollar homes. Large farm operation there also, so Cindy Hyde will have money for repairs come January.

What ? No weight signs ? That thing is heavy as hell.

If you like hunting and fishing that's one of the best places in Mississippi. Beautiful area.

I have another good pic of the rig, but I don’t know how to post it!

@12:26. Duh. Look at the pic. The cab and Derrick are across the collapsed portion. The floor and rear are down in the collapsed section.

iffn they caint get to there hunting camps thats a REAL EMERGENCY!!!

1:24, what you don’t know is I have sent repair crews out to weld the front axles back that have broken on these rigs while on the side of the road. The working platform for the crew is on the rear which has the hoists and upper engine and planetary reduction gears. Since the rig has two engines that is a lot of weight, but that rig is on a CCC (Crane Carrier Corp.) frame which is on old motor cranes, work over rigs and deep foundation piling rigs . They have no rear suspension. It’s on a “roller rocker” suspension which is actually nothing at all so the impact is transferred to the front axles. Thanks for your comment but until you have driven one, like I have, and repaired one, like I have, then you don’t understand the dynamics of what these units can do to the bridges AND the driver. They are dangerous and outdated.

It just ain’t the water in Hinds county that has been neglected. It will only get worse and Tater and company will just cut more taxes and services

@11:55 - Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

Not only is this not a state route, it is not even a State Aid route - or, if more simple terms, MDOT (or the state) has no control over the bridge. Better luck next time.

Prayers for the strippers at Illusions this weekend. And during the holidays too.

Sounds like a Republican area; therefore no FED disaster declaration, no matter what Cindy Hyde may attempt.

5:21 is right. Raising taxes always solves problems and insures utopia for all.

This bridge was restricted to light vehicles only. The rig had just finished working over an old well in hopes of recompleting it in another zone, and was on its way home. Another investor group had considered taking on this project but wisely backed off since they did not think the bridge could hold the weight of the rig. The current operators gambled and lost, and I suspect there are going to be a number of lawsuits filed against the operators. They could be on the hook to replace the bridge and to compensate the residents for destroying their only access. This is a mess that could have been averted.

More appropriately a "Fort Adams Bridge" as it is located some 22 miles west of Woodville.

No lawsuits. The rig owner will simply replace the bridge and provide immediate helicopter and ferry access for hunters. These companies have more money than the Catholic Church. Why do you think half the fences in Yazoo County are painted red?

How do you compensate somebody for not being able to harvest 25 doe deer due to a bridge being out? Especially if the judge is a vegetarian.

@7:46. Gold!

MDOT State Aid posts inspection results of bridges, and the substructure (mainly the piles) of that particular bridge received a rating of “Serious” after the last inspection in January. It was posted at 15, 18, or 21 tons depending on axle configuration, all of which are much lower than the weight of a workover rig. I hunt in that area, luckily south of the bridge, and it has some of the best whitetail genetics in the state, and thus some high dollar leases and camps.

According to Google-Earth, Illusions is on Hwy 61 right down from the Tractor Store and the roadway seems to be in good shape. As long as those Louisiana girls can get there, they're good to go. Y'all head on down.

Googling Illusions I see it's BYOB. How do a strip club make money if they can't con you into buying drinks?

Was Billy Joe McAllister involved in this?

@10:39pm , who is the operator that gambled and lost? Who was the investor group that passed due to concern over the bridge? Thanks

Hey 5:51 you just hit a nerve :). Now we know Hancock is a party to it. Now what about those 6 workers that got injured in Madison County in July in an explosion? How much exposure can his insurance take before they say enough is enough? That’s a tall order to get that rig out of that hole. It will take at least a 300 ton crane, minimum, to reach over that far and pull that chunk of iron out with having to be back at least 30 feet from the edge of the bridge or another accident will occur. I’ve asked myself this question, if they are servicing a well on the other side of the bridge then how did they get the equipment across to begin with on that same bridge?

Who is legally in control of that bridge?

How much does the derrick weigh? Think they'll remove is prior to lifting the truck out?