July 07 Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Video
Makes me feel better for the times I have been stuck! The first guy should have gotten Dirtman2007 to go out there and get it out! I wonder what the crane guy charged?
I agree, and I don't understand why the second guy didn't use any plates. Did he honestly think he was just going to walk out there and pull it out. That one article says that once he gets the rental out he gets it cheap. Are they thinking how much its going to cost to fix it?
I bet it wasn't cheap... unless he takes the second hoe as payment.... but then the 1st guy is out 40g so my guess is 40 grand..... which is a heck of a tow bill
Just fill in the swamp and make it go away. Then it will be Man 1 Swamp 0 and you will wipe out the swamp. The treehuggers hate filling in wetlands, but it has been the way in this country since the colonial days. Just fill in the swamp and make real land.
Wolf, do tree huggers hug them in the swamp? I have only ever seen them on good ground.
We leave no machine behind! I have crane mats for my Excavators now too:drinkup
That's a fascinating story. I especially like the comment about the owners of excavators having to be optimists. Considering the number of things that can go wrong with these machines and the conditions they often work in, we do have to be optimists just to tackle the next job.
amazing....do you guyz over there have anything like a method statement. It explains how you do stuff or do you just track it into the swamp and hope it stays up.All the time i have been around track machines i'm yet to see one stay afloat unaided.these things are very heavy, and swamp(mostly) being soft you do the math...thank you guyz for all your pictures.
Don't confuse a few idiots with "us guys" These are a couple morons who think that excavation is a mere weekend hobby, and no technical knowledge is necessary. Surely you know a few like this around your neck of the woods, Nigel??
never mean't to offend you guy...seen a few over the years
I saw an excavator sunk bad in a cedar bush once. Only the dipper and bucket seemed to be just above ground level. They had dug around it with another machine and had two 3"pumps going steady to keep the water level down. The material was dirty gravel. They had to build a 5' high road in to it with concrete ruble, then a 100 ton crane was able to lift it out. Apparently the circle broke while lifting it out and the tracks stayed there. When the track assembly was lifted out, witnesses said there was a strange sucking sound as it came out, minus one track. The machine was repaired and went on to a sewer job where the engine soon failed. The water pumps had apparently quite over the weekend, while it was still in the hole. The landowner was refused a building permit by the township after the incident and the construction company refused to remove the concrete ruble road for the landowner. A neighbor told me later that as children they were warned never to play in that bush due to a pocket of quicksand. This was in Aberfoyle, Ontario. Phil