This is a thread from a towing forum I visit. It is a ????? Cat 320/330? down over a emankment in the ocean . It took the towing co. a few hard days to get it out. Heres the link http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/67799 Hope you can veiw it. doug
Wow - I wish they would say more of how it happened.
Dig, It looks like one of those panels in the pics of it coming out say 320D.
Looks like a rental.....
Definitely no one in their right mind would do that to their own rig. It would be a rental with either a clown or a pretender flying it.:beatsme
Spose so, looks like another case of trying to do a job on the cheap. And once again it will probably end up costing more than doing it properly in the first place, at least it looks like no one got hurt. You'd think they would have at least shut the door and been a bit more careful in the recovery operation, instead of just ripping it out. Guess no one wanted to get their feet wet and another indicator that this was a rental. I would think that when they pulled it out the side scrapped against the mud because they did not bother to clear enough away, even though it would have taken 10 minutes with that other ex to do that. Remember folks this is why rental costs go up.
Hmmnh let's see, inexperienced operator working on an unstable wet clay bank. Looks like the bank just slipped out from under the machine, very lucky the ex didn't tip over and go into the drink.
If you look the pics over slowly you will see he was up on a plateau behind a wooden seawall and it gave way. He rode it down into the water and the machine was sitting on part of it .I believe he was regrading the hillside where the wrecker is sitting.
Just when you thought you had a bad day.....you realize someone else had a worse one.
I like how the 160 Deere came to the rescue
tryed to come to the rescue........
who was in the seat?.....how do people like this keep a job?....is this a lesson of how not to operate a track machine...go make the tea mate
It was a rental (you can see the CAT RENTAL stickers on the side), so chances are it was either a small contractor who rented the machine to run himself, or the homeowner.