This looks like an unsuccessful attempt at underwater logging, but actually was a case of operator error.
I'm hoping it's a Komatsu...
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's a drowned Cat (D7).
They'll have fun fishin' that one out.
The machine sat there for three days until a D8 was barged up the lake to pull it out. Since the operator had set the brakes as the Cat slid into the water, a scuba diver was sent along to go under and release them once he'd attached the tow cable. The mechanic who showed up changed oil in the engine, transmission and final drive, but for some unknown reason didn't bother to flush out the engine. It ran for a while after he started it up but the water that had got inside contained a lot of abrasive silt so the Cat ended up needing an engine rebuild.
Your kidding right, didn't change the engine oil! What a ****!
Read again, the mechanic did change the oil but didn't flush the engine.:cool2
Too bad. Hope that engine got lots of fish. Lol
"huh" ??????
Yair . . . How would they go if that tractor was electronic? . . . I presume it wasn't? I saw a HD16 driven into a stock water dam to put out a belly guard fire. The operator shut off the engine and let her rattle down the batter and she ended up a bit like that. We had her out in about half an hour and they had her flushed and running by midnight and she was back stacking fires next day. Cheers.
We had the occasional fire inside belly guards and pre-cleaners while pushing fireguard around forest fires. They were usually put out with the ****-cans that were on the machines, unless all the water had leaked out of them.