A TIMBER lorry slid off an icy road close to an overhead powerline.
The vehicle's trailer had to be dragged to safety when a section of it fell down a small embankment.
An investigation found the incident had been caused by the road being "narrower" at that point. The timber lorry and drag were safely recovered using one of the vehicle's recovery strops, attaching this to a forwarder's tow point and the timber lorry's front recovery point.
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No one was hurt and no damage was sustained to the timber lorry. No information has been released about the location of the incident.
An incident bulletin from Scottish Woodlands read: "Ensure you have an outline machine recovery plan in place, which would include how to access, if required, suitably rated strops, cables, shackles, pulleys, winches and mechanised assistance.
"Ensure you know the machine rated attachment points, and that you have access to additional fuel and oil containment and clean up materials.
"A prepared recovery plan and supporting arrangements, quickly put in place, can minimise machine and operator lost production time, minimise machine damage due to water ingress or oil or fuel spill, minimise physical recovery damage, and decrease the likelihood of diesel and hydraulic oil leaking and damaging the environment."
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