more pics of equipment stuck!

[9420pullpan]

this is from KSB in colorado from ACMOC

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[Dozerboy]

Morons there is a point that you should give up and quit digging your self deeper. My guess is the pickup was first then the hoe, loader and last the dozer.

[atgreene]

Here's one I saw yesterday. This is a potato or corn field in Fryeburg Harbor. I wondered why the tractor had stopped in the middle of the field until I stopped and zoomed in. There was another tractor coming to help him, but I don't know how they made out. We've been getting lots of rain, to the point where many of the corn fields were tilled back under and I suspect that is what they were attempting to do here.

[Squizzy246B]

Oh Deere!:eek2

[544D10]

In the 2nd pic it kinda looks like the loader hit the engine cover of the hoe.

[LowBoy]

These dudes are having a BAAAAAD day, to say the least...:Banghead

[alan627b]

I saw that first post on the Cat bulletin board before, it was eplained that the folks driving the pickup got it stuck first, then went and "borrowed" the equipment to try and get the truck out, then buried the cats too. Did a fair amount of damage to the equipment too, I remember. This is what the guys found when they got back to work on Monday.
They did get caught.....all I can remember right now,
alan627b

[JDOFMEMI]

Alan
Thanks for clearing that up. I was about to think someone needed fired!

It looks like the crew had their work cut out freeing all that iron. Might need to wait a few months.

[Nick Drew]

In this photo I was called on to help pull this Komatsu D65 dozer out of a sticky situation on a road job in Cornwall England last year!!

[alco]

I know I have posted these before, but here it goes again.
Brian

[HeyUvaVT]

holy crap..those last pics are crazy...first time i have seen them...any back story? how did they get them unstuck?:eek:

[Lashlander]

Cool pics!:thumbsup
They probably ran one of their Komatsus out there and towed em back in.:yup

[JDOFMEMI]

Cool pics!:thumbsup
They probably ran one of their Komatsus out there and towed em back in.:yup

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[alco]

Cool pics!:thumbsup
They probably ran one of their Komatsus out there and towed em back in.:yup

Hahaha, nice try. We don't have any Komatsu's at that mine. But here is what happens when the Komatsu's at the other mine venture out into this stuff.

Brian

[alco]

holy crap..those last pics are crazy...first time i have seen them...any back story? how did they get them unstuck?:eek:

This is at an Oilsands mine in Northern Alberta, Canada. These are the dozers we use to work and handle the sand once it has been handled and processed by the plant to extract the bitumen. It gets pumped to us by pipelines to large ponds where we work with it to establish solid ground again. The water in the slurry gets trapped in pockets underneath the sand, silt and clay and we occasionally drop machines into these pockets since you can tell they are there until you are in one. There are also soft spots that develop and that is what happened to the D7R's. The deep one was the first one in, and the shallower one was a new guy who didn't follow the proper procedure and got himself stuck too.

It took a week to get both out. We had to build roads out to them with good material, then dig around them, lift and pull really hard! For each machine, it took two 589 sidebooms lifting, a D7R and a D375 pulling, and a 375 Cat hoe and an EX450LC Hitachi hoe lifting and pulling to get them out.
Quite the show really.

These are pictures of the 375 digging around the deep one once the road was built and it had sunk farther...and what it looked like when it was out for comparison.

Brian

[alco]

Here are a couple from a place I used to work. The guy in the background wearing the blue hood was the operator. In all fairness, it wasn't his fault entirely. He was told by an engineer that it was safe to walk through there, he pretested and was told by the superintendant to do it.
He wasn't stuck as bad as this at first, but the same superintendant decided to dig around it to pul it out. They didn't have neough power to pull it out and the machine sunk further before the hole collapsed around it. So the not so super-intendant said "Well, that didn't work....do it again!" They did, and the same thing happened again. That's how it got in so deep. It took us 18 hours to get it out using two TD25's, an 850C, PC200LC, 892E LC, and an EX700 LC. We were all filthy by the time it was over.

Brian

[JDOFMEMI]

Brian
Just wanted to thank you for the pictures and the story to go with it.

Did the dozers shown go back to work? If so, how much damage did they get from thier journey into the tailings?

Great to have your input here

[alco]

Brian
Just wanted to thank you for the pictures and the story to go with it.

Did the dozers shown go back to work? If so, how much damage did they get from thier journey into the tailings?

Great to have your input here

Hi Jerry,

All of the dozers went back to work eventually. The D7R's cost about 400,000 each to get rebuilt. They are full of electrical gremlins now...surprise surprise. The D155 was also rebuilt and put back to work, however I am not at that mine and never heard how much it cost.

Brian

[Countryboy]

Excellent pics and story, Alco. Do you have anymore? :drinkup

[dayexco]

here's a link to pics i took of a competitor's of mine 330 getting stuck, pulled out last early november while he was cleaning out a cattle stock damn


http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i182/dayexco/stuck/

[PSDF350]

Great pics. Even better because theres a story to go with them. Thank you for sharing.:drinkup

[dayexco]

took a 330 kobelco, 300 komatsu, 210 kobelco to get out, he gave local volunteer fire dept. donation to bring fire truck out and blow mud off it before he moved it off that site.

[Countryboy]

here's a link to pics i took of a competitor's of mine 330 getting stuck, pulled out last early november while he was cleaning out a cattle stock damn


http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i182/dayexco/stuck/

Dayexco, can you post some of them pics. My computer don't let me look at photobucket, thanks to the bossman. :bash :cussing

[dayexco]

bet he caught some grief over this one

[DPete]

Wonder what those dozers were doing out in that mush in the first place? DP

[Wulf]

Hi Jerry,

All of the dozers went back to work eventually. The D7R's cost about 400,000 each to get rebuilt. They are full of electrical gremlins now...surprise surprise. The D155 was also rebuilt and put back to work, however I am not at that mine and never heard how much it cost.

Brian

I saw a new Chinese D7 copy (hi-drive n'all) that was about $300,000 brand new. You guys would be better running those and just burying them LOL...

[alco]

I saw an ad for those a while back too. I was actually wondering how much would be interchangeable between the Cat and the Chinese machines. Would sure save us the hassle of digging them out eh?

Where in Canada are you from Wulf?

Brian

[CM1995]

I was in China a little over a year ago at a very large trade show and had the opportunity to look at a D7 copy. Poor quality workmanship really doesn't even describe that junk. The welds and fabricating were horrible. I doubt the machine would last 500 hours.

[Wulf]

I was in China a little over a year ago at a very large trade show and had the opportunity to look at a D7 copy. Poor quality workmanship really doesn't even describe that junk. The welds and fabricating were horrible. I doubt the machine would last 500 hours.

LOL... I was told that they were built 'in cooperation with Caterpillar'. I know what you mean though about the rough fabrication and welding. I thought the carrier roller pedestals were going to fall off just looking at them, also the track links looked like they weren't SALT.

[CM1995]

LOL... I was told that they were built 'in cooperation with Caterpillar'. I know what you mean though about the rough fabrication and welding. I thought the carrier roller pedestals were going to fall off just looking at them, also the track links looked like they weren't SALT.

The one that I saw, and I don't remember the actual company name, was just a cheap copy. I don't believe Cat had ANY thing to do with this. China has no copyright rules and everything and I mean everything is fake. Fake marlboro lights, coca-cola - pretty much if it is an american product it is fake.


This trade show I went to had everything from kitchen sinks, TV's to lawn equipment and this one Copy Cat I saw. It was not an equipment show specifically. I will see if I can find my pictures of it.

There was also a car company called "Great Wall" that basically were making toyota car and truck copies they were just 7/8 size of the real thing. Couldn't fit in the drivers seat.LOL

[dirtworksequip]

Here's the worst I've personally been stuck. DON'T ASK! lol



Cat 941B trying to extract Cat 935C
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/dirtworksequip/P1010028.jpg

Well....................I'll tell ya if you ask?

[digger242j]

How'd you manage that?

(There, I asked.) :)

[CM1995]

Hey spill the beans on this one.

[dirtworksequip]

Well.............Now I'm going to have to tell the whole story.lol
It was the 4th of July 1992. A friend just out the road from me had hired a local contractor to clear a ravine behind his house. The contactor showed up with a Cat 953. The operator made two passes with clearing a few trees and some brush. On the second pass he wasn't able to back up out of the ravine. He went that little extra too far. So,they ended up bringing in their Cat D7 to get him back up out of the ravine. That was it for them. They loaded up both machines and left.

So, my neighbor friend ask if I'd like to clear it for him. I told him I'd do it on July 4th weekend. Anyway I moved my Cat 935C over to his place and started to do the clearing. Once I worked my way down into the bottom of the ravine I put in some old 6 inch waterline to carry the small trickle of water that was there and covered the pipe with about a foot and a half of dirt. Now I had a place to work and shouldn't have to worry about getting stuck because it was wet.

Everthing was going well, other than a couple of Popular tree stumps that he had previously cut off flush with the ground. NO FUN, as I'm sure you know.
Most of the big stumps where done and I still had the clean up to do.
In order to clean up the trees and stumps I had to shove across the hill to make my burn piles. Anyway somehow I ended up below the old waterline I had installed for temporary drainage. The harder I tried to get back up out of the creek the deeper I sank.

Luckily I still had my old Cat 941B that was up for sale. I called a good friend of mine that has a small excavating company and explained the situation to him and he said he would go over to my place and move the old 941 over and we could use it to pull out the 935. Well we tried everything. We were afraid to take the 941 down into the ravine,because we figured both machines would end up being stuck. He had enough chain to reach the 935,but the 941 just could not get enough traction to pull out the 935. We tried and tried. It just wouldn't budge. By now its starting to get dark and the 935 is so buried that 2 more inches and there will be water running into the fuel tank. Plus it was calling for rain later that night. Sh**! What am I going to do? OK, I said lets try this. So I hooked up a chain on each side onto the shoe pad at the bottom as close to the ground as possible. The 3/8ths grab hooks just fit. Now I took out all the slack from the chains running from the 941 to the 935. Got back on the 935, put it in forward gear and slowly gave it some throttle. LO and BEHOLD! It walked right out on those chains as the track moved rearward it pulled just like a winch. The only thing I said was. "We should have tried that 8 hours ago! Geez, what an ordeal. I think I spent more time dropping the belly pan and cleaning the machine up than I was on the job. Needless to say I didn't make anything on that one,but I did learn a great way to get unstuck. I've used this method more times than I would like to recall to get myself unstuck. Most of those times I was able to tie off on a tree at the base and only use a chain on one track to get out. It works,but its still not easy work. Sorry to be sooooooooo long winded,but it raining here today, so I thought it would be a good time to tell a story and maybe teach someone else a method of getting up stuck when you are by yourself and there are no other machines to pull you out.
Sincerely,Dirt

[Tigerotor77W]

There was also a car company called "Great Wall" that basically were making toyota car and truck copies they were just 7/8 size of the real thing. Couldn't fit in the drivers seat.LOL

That's probably because Asians are shorter. :(

But it's good, because we fit in doorways and caves that big, burly white men would conk their heads on. :D

[PSDF350]

It's funny how easy it is to get unstuck. When you find that just right way. But it is never the first thing you try.

[CM1995]

That's probably because Asians are shorter. :(

But it's good, because we fit in doorways and caves that big, burly white men would conk their heads on. :D

You just learn to duck your head.:bouncegri

[MKTEF]

Here is som pictures of our Komatsu D65 stuck.
It's from the period when we built the new camp in North-Afghanistan, it is located on a big flat area of clay.
It started to snow/rain for some days.
A local trucker drove over the area and got stuck. He just stod there for 3 days, doing showeling by hand in a atempt to get loose.

One day he contacted me when i passed by, asking for help.
Well the doser is a nice piece of equipment for this job, so i asked the operator to take a short tripp over to pull him loose. Shouldn't take more than ten minutes:D

Our operater drove over and started pulling, no problem, he got loose but the doser fell down in a hole. He had to press the blade down to awoid clay in the cooling fan.
The truck moved easily away, but then we got problems.:mad:

Well the L180E and a 30 fot chain solved the problem.
They told us later that a truck had been stuck at the same point as the doser, creating a deep hole with floating clay that you couldn't see on the surface.***

[DPete]

Yep, that dozer is stuck. Lucky the truck was empty, what a mess. DP

[crazycajun]

i need to find a way to put my pictures on the computer. had some pretty stupid operators.

[Countryboy]

i need to find a way to put my pictures on the computer. had some pretty stupid operators.

Check out these 2 threads:

Posting Pictures (http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=2284)
Resizing Pictures (http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=1521&highlight=jpegcompress)

[Countryboy]

D11R without 4 wheel drive......:rolleyes: :D

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JD 8960 and pan

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Another stuck JD and pan

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[mitchell2905]

lets hear the story behing the two stuck JDs and the D 11:drinkup

[Lashlander]

Nice pics CB. It looks like they did some digging on that D11 already.:thumbsup

[Countryboy]

lets hear the story behing the two stuck JDs and the D 11:drinkup

:beatsme Not my pictures man, sorry.

Nice pics CB. It looks like they did some digging on that D11 already.:thumbsup

I had noticed that too. The other piece of equipment musta not been big enough. :D

[nedly05]

Hopefully they got that D11 out before it froze up too hard!!

[alco]

Nice pics CB. It looks like they did some digging on that D11 already.:thumbsup

If they don't dig it out, they would never pull it out...trust me. We needed a 375 hoe, D375 dozer, a D7R and two 589 sidebooms to get a D7R out once. They don't just pop out of this goop.

Hopefully they got that D11 out before it froze up too hard!!

Actually, it's a whole lot easier to get them out once they're frozen. No more suction to deal with.

Brian

[surfer-joe]

Why all the fans on top? Does the goo left over from the oil recovery smell that bad, or are they heaters for those cold northern nights?

[CM1995]

Actually, it's a whole lot easier to get them out once they're frozen. No more suction to deal with.Brian

Hey Brian - when the ground freezes around the machine how careful do you have to be when you "unstuck it" - not break any of the components? Just curious.

[alco]

Why all the fans on top? Does the goo left over from the oil recovery smell that bad, or are they heaters for those cold northern nights?

The fans are part of the cooling system. They move the radiators and coolers to the roof to keep them out of the mud and sludge. A normally placed radiator plugs up solid in about one hour or less.

Hey Brian - when the ground freezes around the machine how careful do you have to be when you "unstuck it" - not break any of the components? Just curious.

We just dig, I guess you wouldn't want to hit the machine too hard, but there isn't any extra concern put into it. If it's going to break, it's going to break. Odds are after that it's going to spend time in the shop anyhow, there is already a bunch of broken stuff if it got dumped that bad. Don't get me wrong, we don't try to cause damage to get them out. But we don't put extra care into the recovery because it's frozen than we would if it was warm out. For what we doing, they are pretty robust and resist damage fairly well.

Brian

[EZ TRBO]

Well haven't done this in a long while but on Thursday, of course just had to take one more load of sand, and got stuck crossing a flooded part of the sand pit.
Trbo

[bigblueox]

oops

[possum300d]

Some good pics. :)

[9420pullpan]

some new ones

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[90plow]

Cool pics. The feeling when your helplessly stuck is not a good one. Off topic but why do they use the JD machines with pull pans instead of the the regular scrapers?
-Eric

[Dozerboy]

Its cheaper on short hauls.

[DuraMaxMan66]

gettin those cat compact track loaders stuck is an easy thing to do...

[Loaderman380]

Here are a couple of pics. from the site I'm working on. This was just plain old operator error.

[Loaderman380]

Here are a couple more, same machine a few days later. Machine is a Komatsu PC-400. The operator was working on the begining of a large retention pond when the rim ditch gave way. He decided to walk down to the bottom of the pond to fix the rim ditch because he could not reach it from the top.

[mikef87]

does he still work there?

[Loaderman380]

does he still work there?

No he was asked to leave after we worked on getting the machine out fro prox. 24 hours with no luck. The machine was eventually freed, but it took almost a month. Had to dig thepond down around it to get the ground dry and hard enough to move it. The machine was cleaned up and sent to the auction. Buyer beware:( :beatsme :(

[Z24O]

and here was me,a newby to tracked gear thinking to myself "at least you can't get bogged like wheeled machinery":Pointhead
think after seeing these horror stories i'll play in the hard stuff until i get the hang of it

[Bolan]

good pics

[9420pullpan]

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[9420pullpan]

the first 4 pics are of a D8R LGP

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[9420pullpan]

here are some pics of equipment stuck in the waste handling application. i wish i had more pics of the 980 with compaction wheels on it.... awesome machine

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[9420pullpan]

this is what happens when you don't post for some time....

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[mikesequip]

some really awsome pics

[Lashlander]

Wow!

[Young James]

holy crap that's insane!!!

[ben46a]

Thats the second 375 Ive seen thats been lost to the ocean. That 303 just needs a couple lads to push lol.

[HeyUvaVT]

i need the back story on that 375 in the surf....wow

[9420pullpan]

i wish i knew the stories behind half of the pics i have seen

[385c JR]

**** happens :oops

[jimmyjack]

i'll add a couple from that site i like

[iron kid]

the cat that went surffing and found out it can't swim had to be a total loss
get stuck, get out and think. and u can find a way out. Keep moving and sink your way to the bottom

[bear]

How often do you sink a piece of equipment like that? Is there any way to use something like a concret vibrator to help "settle" the sands? Just curious. :beatsme

[d4c24a]

the cat that went surffing and found out it can't swim had to be a total loss
get stuck, get out and think. and u can find a way out. Keep moving and sink your way to the bottom

no it got rebuilt at levertons ,it was in the uk and owned by stokey plant ,the credit for these pictures should go to robert knighton ,a plant fitter here in the uk ,he has some amazing pictures ,sadly not to be seen now as someone copied and pasted the thread onto another site with no mention of where the pictures came from

the cost of the rebuild was £100.000 it was not stuck it blew a track motor hose at night
cheers graham

[9420pullpan]

no it got rebuilt at levertons ,it was in the uk and owned by stokey plant ,the credit for these pictures should go to robert knighton ,a plant fitter here in the uk ,he has some amazing pictures ,sadly not to be seen now as someone copied and pasted the thread onto another site with no mention of where the pictures came from

the cost of the rebuild was £100.000 it was not stuck it blew a track motor hose at night
cheers graham

well i have to credit Robert Knighton for the Great pics

thank you

[d4c24a]

thanks 9420pullpan i will see if i can entice him onto this site
i have personally seen some of his albums and he has some great pictures :notworthy
thanks for taking the time to post all of these pictures ,i have visited the vastereden site briefly and it looks good well worth a longer look :D
thanks graham

[kendall69]

Want to take a camera to work all the time.

[EddieWalker]

I've really enjoyed the stuck pictures and wanted to share one of mine. I have a Case 1550 that I use on my land for personal use.

I was filling in a hole from a stump that I'd taken out earlier, and was kind of in a hurry as it was getting dark out. The hole had a bunch of water in it and the dirt was turning to mush as I pushed it in. I was being careful at first, but as I lost daylight, I sort of got carried away.

It took me all the next day to dig out all around it with my backhoe, then a ramp to drive it out.

I waited a month for the ground to dry out before cleaning up the mess.

Eddie

[JBL]

Nice one eddie. :D

I am sure alot of the guys here would enjoy seeing some of your pond building pictures also.

[EddieWalker]

Funny how I forgot about this stuck picture, but the pond refrence reminded me of it.

I was cleaning out the silt in my small pond with my backhoe and putting it into my dump truck. I had hauled about five or six loads without any trouble.

My mistake was in not realizing that the water coming through my bed was soaking the ground under my tires. With a full load and very slipery clay, the mistake of parking without any barrier behind me became rather obvious.

As luck would have it, my neighbor was in town and happened to drive by on his land right after this happened. He went and got his backhoe, and with the both my backhoe and his, we pulled it out real easy in about ten minutes.

I drained the water out of the axle and replaced it with new oil. While doing that, I noticed that my U-bolts were loose, and so badly rusted that they wouldn't tighten up. I cut them off and replaced them with brand new ones, which I might not have noticed if I hadn't have taken it swimming!!!

Eddie

[kendall69]

..the cat that went surfing and found out it can't swim had to be a total loss

Yea, looks like you get to a point, do you pull it OUT or push it all the way under???

[MMSOCAL]

:usaNot all operators are qualified to work in silt pond. _Back story is pretty much the operator was being pushed to with a 6lgp and then when the dozer hand went to lunch, the hoe operator tried to back fill the hole he dug:beatsme and go dig further out in the silt. As we can see this process was flawed. He kept his job oddly enough:Pointhead.:usa

[RollOver Pete]

Um.....
I wasn't stuck....
I was just checking to see where the bottom was :confused:
:cool:

[tonka]

Yeah and i got this bridge i'd like to sell you, she looks pretty stuck to me:D

[alco]

Um.....
I wasn't stuck....
I was just checking to see where the bottom was :confused:
:cool:


I tried to use that one once, but all my partner said was keep diggin boy, you still have another 200' to go if you're lookin for the bottom.

Brian

[b61mh44]

Those are some interesting photos.

[Big Dazzler]

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cheers

[Billy X]

This is mother nature at her best.

[Maxpro]

That is just crazy!!!! When I was young my one of grand father's dozer operators got a TD15 stuck. He had hit something like quick sand and before he knew it it was up to the seat. It took 2 other TD15's and alot of cable to get it out. I have to give credit where credit is due. This is way worse!!!!!

[AtlasRob]

This is mother nature at her best.

You mean Worst,........... Oh its not yours, .......it dont matter then :D

[alan243]

All I
can say is WOW. In the mine where I work they have 2 d10's that are in the bottom of the pit, right now you can see the top of one, the other is totally underwater.

[bushcat]

Alan show us the pics

[Mass-X]

Alan, just a shot in the dark; you work at Kennecott?

Have you guys already fished out the 793B or are the D10’s keeping it company?

[JDOFMEMI]

I hear the beginings of a story that is crying out to be told!

[bear]

I hear the beginings of a story that is crying out to be told!

Me too. Spill the beans...please? :D

[sandy]

More drowned dragline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_EupbS_JfE

[AtlasRob]

More drowned dragline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_EupbS_JfE

Well worth a look, thanks for the link. The amount of water those pumps are shifting a second is unreal. :notworthy
And they reckon to JUMP start the dragline in a couple weeks :eek: like to see the booster cables on that day :D

[Wolf]

Yeah and i got this bridge i'd like to sell you, she looks pretty stuck to me:D

nah, it's the brooklyn bridge that is for sale. GGB already sold to the greenies.

[Mass-X]

I don't know the story, but this picture was e-mailed to me a while back. Said to be at the bottom of Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine.

[AtlasRob]

I don't know the story, but this picture was e-mailed to me a while back. Said to be at the bottom of Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine.

:lmao:lmao :falldownlaugh Who Emailed it to you Stretch, JD4020, or Agent ?

[Deere9670]

:lmao:lmao :falldownlaugh Who Emailed it to you Stretch, JD4020, or Agent ?

HAHA very funny! Looks like a tonka to me!!!

[Lashlander]

You guys seem to be a little gun shy! LoL I've seen that pic before. Theres some from further out and its a real truck.

[AtlasRob]

You guys seem to be a little gun shy! LoL I've seen that pic before. Theres some from further out and its a real truck.

Sorry Lashlander, :beatsme :D it might be real but that dont mean its big :D

[RoadDoc]

Subcontractor on night shift left us with this little slice of sunshine one morning....:eek::Banghead

[JDOFMEMI]

Sorry Lashlander, :beatsme :D it might be real but that dont mean its big :D

I too have seen that pic, as well as a couple from farther out. you can even see the oil trail down the face where the truck went down. If it is fake, it is a good one.
One thing i did notice looking at it with a more critical eye now is that some of the "boulders" look a little big to have been hauled to the dump and pushed off. There are a few there that look larger than the truck bed. That don't mean they are not real, just worthy of another look.

Whats the verdict???

[Lashlander]

See if this works. This is off of PullPans signiture album. A view from further out.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2660223490065476939KuqKec

Like Jerry said, If its a fake its a good one!

[JDOFMEMI]

Thanks Lash.
I was going to post, but could only find the close up in my files. I was pretty sure I had this one, but maybe not.
I had forgotten the reason for the boulders. They are a little big for the truck, but easy to see why now.

[AtlasRob]

I too have seen that pic, as well as a couple from farther out. you can even see the oil trail down the face where the truck went down. If it is fake, it is a good one.
One thing i did notice looking at it with a more critical eye now is that some of the "boulders" look a little big to have been hauled to the dump and pushed off. There are a few there that look larger than the truck bed. That don't mean they are not real, just worthy of another look.

Whats the verdict???

:eek: :shf we dont have a smiley with egg on its face so that will have to do.
Thank you very much and I am now a believer :notworthy I could have lost an awful lot of money betting on that as I was sure it was a good fake. Looks just like a load of Type 1 limestone a big puddle and a kids tonka truck :D

[AtlasRob]

Subcontractor on night shift left us with this little slice of sunshine one morning....:eek::Banghead

Did you jump on it and walk it out with some assistance from the bucket, or did you save the guys embarresment and put a chain on it :D

[RoadDoc]

We made a big show of it.....Had to earn the bottle of Crown Royal it cost him! :drinkup:cool2

[oakland]

heres a stuck 769d at a site.

[AtlasRob]

We made a big show of it.....Had to earn the bottle of Crown Royal it cost him! :drinkup:cool2

:beerchug :D

[cat4ever]

The 797B appears to have slided backwards due to the ground giving way under her rear-axle weight though. She didn't quite get stucked...:IMO

[dayexco]

HAHA very funny! Looks like a tonka to me!!!

i think yer right

[oakland]

oh, well it looked like it was stuck:o by the way its not a 797b its a 769d:D bit smaller of a machine

[Gavin84w]

Obviously you guys do not know about that 793 that went for a swim, this was Mt Keith mine in WA and the operator drowned, quite a few years ago now.

[JDOFMEMI]

Gavin

Thanks for that tidbit. I wondered where it was.

Kind of figured it was a fatality, unless the driver had wings.

[cat4ever]

"oh, well it looked like it was stuck by the way its not a 797b its a 769d bit smaller of a machine" - oakland



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It says 797B doesn't it? 'was this picture I was refering to.:naughty

[Lashlander]

Boy, this thread was going 4 different directions at once there. I was getting confused!

[cat4ever]

:lmao

[oakland]

"oh, well it looked like it was stuck by the way its not a 797b its a 769d bit smaller of a machine" - oakland



20234

It says 797B doesn't it? 'was this picture I was refering to.:naughty

sorry i didnt see that picture:Pointhead:Banghead oh well:D

[AtlasRob]

sorry i didnt see that picture:Pointhead:Banghead oh well:D

You didn't see it cause he didn't post it. I think you can assume he was fishing and you bit :D

[alco]

You didn't see it cause he didn't post it. I think you can assume he was fishing and you bit :D

If you look back a few pages, that picture was indeed posted.

Brian

[AtlasRob]

If you look back a few pages, that picture was indeed posted.

Brian

I did, your right, I missed it and stand corrected :notworthy :o

[biggerdigger]

Not the operator's fault - Mother Nature is to blame here. Guy was extracting gravel and the river came up unexpectedly overnight!

[joe901]

thats the underwaterest digger I ever seen.... where, who how?

[HoJay]

Just some stuck iron.

[HoJay]

The first two pics are of a versatile tractor thayt broke through the muskeg in northern alberta on a ice road, the tractor pulls an old tire from a 793 rock truck to pound frost into the ground after cats have opened up the road and have pulled smaller tires over for a few days. Third pick is a 9n that got stuck feeding muskeg to hoe to load out, ended up pulling it out with a 850 JD hoe. Bit of a pain becauce the back of the bucket had a loop instead of a hook and we didnt have a big clevis handy. Fourth is just a truck that got to close to the edge, the right hand side wheels where off the ground before the hoe got to him. Last one was just the cat filling the slope but it was soft at the bottom [ water at bottom of slope] and it just gave away on him. We pulled him out with a 330 hoe.

[biggerdigger]

thats the underwaterest digger I ever seen.... where, who how?

I'm not sure who the contractor is - one of my readers spotted it and sent me the pics. It's a river in the Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. Apparently the digger had a contract to do some gravel extraction and the machine was left on the riverbed overnight when the river rose unexpectedly. Can't imagine the operator was too happy when he got to work the next day.

[PSDF350]

Not the operator's fault - Mother Nature is to blame here. Guy was extracting gravel and the river came up unexpectedly overnight!



I'm not sure who the contractor is - one of my readers spotted it and sent me the pics. It's a river in the Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. Apparently the digger had a contract to do some gravel extraction and the machine was left on the riverbed overnight when the river rose unexpectedly. Can't imagine the operator was too happy when he got to work the next day.Sounds like operater error to me. I would not leave a machine so close to a river that it could swallow up a machine like that. Just becuase it isn't raining were you are dont mean up river it isn't jmo. But I have never worked on a river project so what do I know. I do remember watching westerns when younger and they always crossed the river before bedding down for the night just incase the river rose.

[alco]

Sounds like operater error to me. I would not leave a machine so close to a river that it could swallow up a machine like that. Just becuase it isn't raining were you are dont mean up river it isn't jmo. But I have never worked on a river project so what do I know. I do remember watching westerns when younger and they always crossed the river before bedding down for the night just incase the river rose.


I was thinking something along the same lines myself.

Brian

[JimBruce42]

Hey Hojay,

Cool pics, are those all A40 ADT's? Got any photos of that 850 deere you mentioned?

[HoJay]

Hey Jim,
Those Adts are all a30s. I have a couple pics of the 850 but they are not very good, I took them on night shift but i will post some later and try to find some of our 850 hitachi.

[Iron Horse]

This is a shot of my 931 Cat traxcavator which fell through the crust and stopped on the clay about 3' down . I decided i was deep enough when my little dog walked straight onto the floor plates that were level with the ground and looked at me . I thought it's now time to go and have a beer and a think . I ended up putting a piece of short chain with a hook on one end around a front track plate and attached it to a 7/8" wire rope with an eye on each end . I ran the rope through a steel ring i grabbed with the 4in1 and then onto a tree (you can just see the rope through the ROPS and onto the tree). Put it in gear and wound the rope up on the track like a fishing reel . Came straight out , i think i even impressed the dog .:D

[knucklehead98]

This is mother nature at her best.

http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/wwwboard/stripmine?cmd=get&cG=2333837343&zu=3233383734&v=2&gV=0&p=

http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/wwwboard/stripmine?cmd=get&cG=2333639343&zu=3233363934&v=2&gV=0&p=


http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/wwwboard/stripmine?cmd=get&cG=2333530373&zu=3233353037&v=2&gV=0&p=



http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/wwwboard/stripmine?cmd=get&cG=2333331333&zu=3233333133&v=2&gV=0&p=


http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/wwwboard/stripmine?cmd=get&cG=2333138353&zu=3233313834&v=2&gV=0&p=

http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/wwwboard/stripmine?cmd=get&cG=2323539313&zu=3232353931&v=2&gV=1&p=#22591

This is a link to on another board, that is from ta employee of that mine. He has it very well documented. I don't know if I missed any of the threads or not. If you have time, search through the archives on that site for anything from "parksy", he even has photo documented the building of a new dragline. Pretty interesting stuff,I thought.

[knucklehead98]

http://www.stripmine.org/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/wwwboard/stripmine?cmd=get&cG=2343031373&zu=3234303137&v=2&gV=0&p=

Stuck Dragline

[Twisted]

Not Yellow but A friend of mine got himself into a predicament this past weekend.

[Smitty]

Wow! There is some crazy stuff in this thread. It makes me want to be a little more careful - especially when I start thinking about the expense of getting some of these things unstuck.

[Deere9670]

Some of these pictures make me wonder what what going through the operators minds when they got stuck? Sure I have got my fair share of tractors stuck, and sometimes it happens, but the NH?????? That was bad, he must of thought it floated!!!

[qball]

you gotta break a few eggs to make an omlette. we will all swamp a machine at some point, so if you get smug you will get swamped worse.

[Buckethead]

Some of these pictures make me wonder what what going through the operators minds when they got stuck? Sure I have got my fair share of tractors stuck, and sometimes it happens, but the NH?????? That was bad, he must of thought it floated!!!

I can't speak for them, but last time I got a machine stuck I was thinking, "Does he (the foreman) really think this machine can go there?" Just doing what I was told.

[Twisted]

Some of these pictures make me wonder what what going through the operators minds when they got stuck? Sure I have got my fair share of tractors stuck, and sometimes it happens, but the NH?????? That was bad, he must of thought it floated!!!


I believe he was on his way to pick up the aluminum can that is sitting in front of his left rear tire.:D:beatsme:D

Long story behind this one too but its out & we all had a good chuckle about it afterwords.

Twisted

[AtlasRob]

This is a shot of my 931 Cat traxcavator which fell through the crust and stopped on the clay about 3' down . I decided i was deep enough when my little dog walked straight onto the floor plates that were level with the ground and looked at me . I thought it's now time to go and have a beer and a think . I ended up putting a piece of short chain with a hook on one end around a front track plate and attached it to a 7/8" wire rope with an eye on each end . I ran the rope through a steel ring i grabbed with the 4in1 and then onto a tree (you can just see the rope through the ROPS and onto the tree). Put it in gear and wound the rope up on the track like a fishing reel . Came straight out , i think i even impressed the dog .:D

That beer definetly lubricated the part that needed it the most :D well thought out, planned and executed. Heard of it being done but by the time I learnt of the trick I had progressed to something with an arm and bucket, though I am sure my time will come :D :drinkup

[ME83]

Seeing what it takes to get these tracked equipment stuck makes me want to go buy a dozer and "test" the traction limit. I am always pulling one tractor out with another. So far it has only taken me a hour to get my worst stuck out.

[ben46a]

Then you havent truly been stuck............

[oisinirish]

Testing the limits of traction on your tracked machine will definitely enhance your education!..
We had a brand new D8n get stuck in a lake we were building when we hit an underground spring. The rear end sank to to the fuel tank and she started sliding deeper and deeper. The Pc400 had barely enough to halt the slide. we ended up chaining railroad ties to tracks. We got it out but Holy Frijoles what a heart attack at first.

[Flash2004]

Now that I've seen all these photos and read the stories i don't feel so bad after all about some of my own escapades. I've had some serious stuck situations before but well before digital cameras luckily!

[redlaker1]

the line between stuck and holy crap I made it is thin

[AtlasRob]

the line between stuck and holy crap I made it is thin

:yup very thin at times :thumbsup

[Sharky]

I have been stuck in a dozer more times than I care to remember. Snapped 7/8 cable, and many 3/4'' ones, ripped down 4' (At the butt) trees,along with others, just trying to get out. I have had the foot controls in the mud more than once. I slowly learned a little, but still get stuck on occasion. The muskegs here are very decieving. Corduroy roadways leading up to a knob that needs ripped. Suddenly, the logs below shift or snap and your Burried!

Building logging roads across a heavily saturated muskeg is the worse. Everything is great, until suddenly yer F#$%%.:Banghead Man, I wish I had taken more pics over the years.

[Iron Horse]

I think the worst part is dropping the belly plates to get all the ooze that has surrounded everything back out . The best way to get a dozer out (if you can get to the tracks) is to chain a log or similar accross both tracks . Start to apply some torque keeping your hands away from the steering levers and it should bury the log and drag you out the length of the tracks . You should be by now sitting on the other logs you dragged into position before hand .

[lancef]

Awusme pictures.....

[justaddwata]

some humbling pics. Amazing how the ground will swollow so much power.

[jimmyjack]

boy it'd be nice to see some new pics:rolleyes:

[Iron Horse]

A side shot of my 931 is the best i can do at short notice . I'll see if i can do better tomorrow as ive got some scrub to clear with the tractor .:D As you can see in the picture it looked ok , just like the rest of the area i had been walking on . My little dog walked straight onto the floor plates and looked at me as if to say , thank's that's a lot easier than jumping up onto the tracks .:rolleyes: I just noticed the ring i grabbed in the 4in1 to run the rope through to feed it onto the track straight .

[9420pullpan]

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[Wolfcsm]

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Interesting way to get it clean.

Hal

[kennymopar]

theres some great pics there ..but what do you tell the boss ?

[AtlasRob]

theres some great pics there ..but what do you tell the boss ?

Last time I told her it wasn't my fault :rolleyes:

[bildrrick]

nice

[bluecoupe]

heres one of our tractor and dump trailer
http://img4.pictiger.com/57b/17017874_th.jpg (http://bluecoupe.pictiger.com/images/17017874/)
Photos Gallery - PicTiger (http://www.pictiger.com)

[hoeman600]

K!!! Yer Full ...next

[Deere9670]

haha i bet that driver had some skid marks left on the seat after that happend! Lets hear the story hoeman

[JDOFMEMI]

K!!! Yer Full ...next

:eek:I said 4 ton, not 44 ton:cussing

[hoeman600]

haha i bet that driver had some skid marks left on the seat after that happend! Lets hear the story hoeman

duno the story just fowerdeded it from last page with my own smart a%* comment :D. it just seemed to need some attention.

[EZ TRBO]

Pretty simple deal here, your working mere feet above the water table on the Mississippi River and loose sand, never know when it might happen. Not really a big deal, hooked on with the dozer and towed him out.

Trbo

[oakland]

as long as its someone other than you its fine:D never seen a 970f before:notworthy

[EZ TRBO]

as long as its someone other than you its fine:D never seen a 970f before:notworthy

Well he has pulled me out once before, so its only fair. The machine is actually a Material Handler, not sure if that clears things up on the F series.

Trbo

[385c JR]

Time for my contribution in this thread :drinkup

[MKTEF]

Hey F.
Now you're not nice to one of JR's best operators..
If there ain't a new guy there, as he got the 11.

Nice pics by the way.

[385c JR]

He he. It's a new guy. You see the back of the good D11 driver, who had to come and get the 10 up. Without any help from other machines. :notworthy

[AtlasRob]

He he. It's a new guy. You see the back of the good D11 driver, who had to come and get the 10 up. Without any help from other machines. :notworthy

That tells me 2 things, the new guy gets credit for stopping when he got to the stage where he knew he would only make it worse, and due credit to the operator who got it out without assistance :cool2 :drinkup

[Taylortractornu]

I got the misfortune of operating one of these mongrols and working on one I have a pattern burner in my shop, just a large torch that traces a sheet metal pattern. I use it for thumbs and rakes, but its really made for sawmill sprockets. A man had inherited one from his brother that was trying to deal them. 450 hours it needed sprockets couldnt get them to fit from Cat Berco werent able either. I took an old one off and used it for a pattern burned out 2 rings. and welded them to the old sprockets. They dont come off in segments like a Cat you have to break the track. at 650 hours the pedestals broke. The transmission power unit looked nothing like a Cat Cylinder peed oil everywhere. The man went back to using a an old D6 to finish his job. Sent the other back home for 18 cents a pound. He told me the only way he had it was the fact his shyster brother left it to him.

[IH560JL]

Being a catskinner myself, i know how tough these are, let me guess. Once out air cleaners were removed, cleaned , replaced and they fired up and were drove to get a bath. Hope skinners that buried them had to clean them with a toothbrush!!!

[IH560JL]

Being a catskinner myself, i know how tough these are, let me guess. Once out air cleaners were removed, cleaned , replaced and they fired up and were drove to get a bath. Hope skinners that buried them had to clean them with a toothbrush!!!

[PrinothGuy23]

man those are some awsome pics...i havent been stuck myself but at the college i went to some kids had some serious problems with getting trucks and equipment stuck

[30 dirty years]

We got one stuck then another so it was time to get a longer chain.

[jgivens]

Guys I've been waiting to see a thread like this, guess I didn't look hard enough. Anyway some of our stuck tractors I have lots of pictures hope you like them. Any questions just shoot!

[jgivens]

These have a story with them. So we was stripping a quarry with 5 tractors. The job was during the winter and we was pushing hard trying to get done and decided to start hauling after some heavy rains. This day we didn't haul much.... :Banghead So we was running single file our ramp into our cut was one lane. (Keep in mind this is the same route we ran for weeks) The first tractor came in and got stuck, the second tractor swung left and was going to go around but it got stuck. Yelled at the D8 operator to come on over and help out but as he was getting in behind the second tractor he went down:Banghead:Banghead. Ok.... had to ride back to the staging area and get the D6H (about a mail away) was going to push the 8 out but didn't even touch blades and the 6 was done!:badidea Dang what now:beatsme Had to call the quarry and they sent a dozer (from about 4 miles away over) we drug out the cables and finally started moving equipment. We had everything out except the first tractor. Hooked a D8R to the front a D8R on the back pushing and the D6H Pushing on the front D8. Check out the pictures!

[jgivens]

If I already posted these sorry! Finally back hauling a couple hours later.

[JDOFMEMI]

What a mess!!
Bet it made you wish you stayed in bed that day.

[9420pullpan]

We did this job a few years back and it was wet and was pumping bad. Apparently I had a crack in my hitch. All of a sudden the 9420 picked up speed and I looked back and this is what I saw.....

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[jgivens]

Oh man that sucks, I've seen that happen a time or two myself.

[NL1CAT]

Aaah stuck too.:yup

[JDOFMEMI]

I hope there was a boat close by!
Also a longer cable. That on looks a little short to reach anything.

[DarrylMueller]

The operator did not want to do this but the forman knew more? It was a new machine. They had to undo the hydraulic track motors and wench it out it went under water at high tide, it was fine walking out to the rock, picked up the rock and it sunk.

[JimBruce42]

where'd the pictures go? :beatsme

[Diagonal Brace]

I cannot see the pictures either.:beatsme

[landrvrnut22]

I'm glad it's just not me.

[insleyboy]

If your talking about the 690 pics....they are right there on the end of page 13

[landrvrnut22]

Now they are working.

[MAC-EX]

Here is one of my step dad's 950 Cat loader. I took this picture and used in in my advertising. It says "Don't get stuck with the wrong dirt contractor!"

[insleyboy]

Is there a picture somewhere of the Stuck Feller-Buncher after it was recovered? I remember seeing it, maybee not in this thread, but in this site somewhere.

[CM1995]

Is there a picture somewhere of the Stuck Feller-Buncher after it was recovered? I remember seeing it, maybee not in this thread, but in this site somewhere.

Here is the "before" thread - http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=6101

This is the "after" thread - http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=6865&highlight=Unstuck

Both of these were interesting threads.

[Construct'O]

Here is one of my step dad's 950 Cat loader. I took this picture and used in in my advertising. It says "Don't get stuck with the wrong dirt contractor!"

Nice catchy ad there.Hopfully they don't find out that is your machine ,they might take that as you being wrong guy for the there job,especially if it has anything to do with MUD.:D

I do like it,good job:drinkup:usa

[insleyboy]

Thanks CM1995, I have a young nephew " 3" that loves to see forestry equiment. He's into the stuck equipment on the computer, these cold days inside. He will love these!!!

[mike 360*]

heres my mistake, during xmas time, i was told to cross this ditch in the morning to repair a dam further accross the site, in the afternoo crossing it back, the machine slipped off the so called ledge, and sunk on the one side, i tryed to push myself out,no luck, so turned round, but that was worse, water started coming in the cab, turned my head the engine was steaming, **** I THOUGHT, the air filter box is under water, so turned it off just in time!
dug a channel next to it to clear the water, fitter came down that night, took injectors off, fired her over pumped the water out (thankgod it didnt bend a con rod!!) -had to do it in the dark, as the water in the motor would of froze that night! Next day dug myself a ramp out with a takeuchi tb 125, and i was back to work! -but all the lads on site now call me the boy from atlantis!!-il never live it down! p.s its a JS 130, 1999 i think

[HeyUvaVT]

yikes...wheres your life jacket!

[SCOOPIT22]

Hey Boss, Do you have a chain and shovel on your truck :Pointhead

[AtlasRob]

heres my mistake, ............turned my head the engine was steaming, **** I THOUGHT, the air filter box is under water, so turned it off just in time!


:notworthy...... thats for a) having the *alls to post it and b) having the presence of mind to turn it off quick rather than trying just once more, well done :drinkup

[334 lawn co]

Not Yellow but A friend of mine got himself into a predicament this past weekend.

i did that same thing on monday with my skidder---had to use our tractor to get it out . took 8 hours to get it out...long day:beatsmei dont know how i got it stuck anyways, shouldve taken pics but i was kinda pissed off and didnt think about it.

[dieselsmokemake]

Friend of mine in GA screw up.

[Cat 430E IT]

jeez i can see some reasons why people get these machines stuck be some you just wonder

[SweCE]

This is one of all machines I have managed to get stuck. This is actually one of the mildest one I have done. ;)

[Turbo21835]

Oh yeah! Nothing like pushing out piles that have been sitting for months. Ya never know where the soft spot is, but since the piles haven't been rounded to shed water, it's a guaranteed that you will find a soft spot.

[insleyboy]

You bet Turbo 21835, are we finding that out now (during the frost law) or what???

[Turbo21835]

I wish Insleyboy. We are not working right now, frost laws are on, plus we are waiting for Rockwall to finish up pouring some walls on our project. Not that it matters right now, Im on my feet and driving truck, working for a non signatory contractor, so no equipment for me. Hall isn't looking too bright right now. But its about time to go pounding on doors, weathers starting to break.

[Tigerotor77W]

This is one of all machines I have managed to get stuck. This is actually one of the mildest one I have done. ;)

Any details? Such a new machine, too! :(

[Deere9670]

Any details? Such a new machine, too! :(

and a rental...lol

[Turbo21835]

Any details? Such a new machine, too! :(

Not that hard to figure out what happened. Pushing a dump site that was never rounded off. With truck piles sitting like that they tend to hold water. You never really know where that soft spot is going to be, until the bottom falls out. It looks like nice dry ground on top, which is is, but a foot underneath that dry looking ground is a bunch of slop. You usually fell it after youre over it. The first reaction is to throw the machine in reverse and raise the blade. Usually raising the blade is what sinks you.

[Tigerotor77W]

and a rental...lol

Hehe. Yeah, good point. ***

Not that hard to figure out what happened. Pushing a dump site that was never rounded off. With truck piles sitting like that they tend to hold water. You never really know where that soft spot is going to be, until the bottom falls out. It looks like nice dry ground on top, which is is, but a foot underneath that dry looking ground is a bunch of slop. You usually fell it after youre over it. The first reaction is to throw the machine in reverse and raise the blade. Usually raising the blade is what sinks you.

Forgive me... what does "rounded off" mean (or how would you accomplish it)?

[JimBruce42]

tigerotor,

rounding off is basically just the process of knocking the tops off the piles and getting the area to drain, so that it doesn't hold water.

[catd8t]

i did the same thing last winter oh just ramp up thoses piles so trucks can dum their hahaha ok a said i was to their with a d6n going and going then boom im stuck i was way far, no other equipment on this place the dump trucks couldnt even get near me they are half loaded with slop. i was pissed. then i lifted the dozer with the blade and spent 2 hours finding rocks put them under. i took a picture on my phone and backed her out i was covered in mud and sent that pic to my boss and said im done pic this dozer up he said got the picture ill tell the trucks to go to the other job go home hahahahaha ive never been stuck like that

[insleyboy]

Hey Turbo, are you southeast Mich? If so C.A. Hull is looking for operators.Toebe is hiring as well. Good luck.

[TLindsay]

Getting stuck can happen to anyone ...you might be next..!

[Tracksoup71]

I don't know the story behind these but thought they fit rigt in with the theme of things.

[DonZX14]

That last one is my worst nightmare!!!

[AtlasRob]

That last one is my worst nightmare!!!

Theres pictures somewhere of after it was recovered, it has a very thick slab of ice all around ( and probably through) the cab at the angle its sitting at there.

[9420pullpan]

Here is a good on after it got pulled out of the ice.

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[buddy605]

That looks like a Lac de Gras Constructors, a Kiewit-led joint venture sticker on the side of that D10. This would make sence since they are in diavik. and this is where the ice road is.

[ryan32]

Geez, some of these pics are amazing! I'm gonna show them to someone who has had similar misfortunes with a few of his machines, but as bad as they were, they look mild in comparison!

I'm sure most of you have an idea how big a Cat 973 is.

This guy did quite a number on his machine but apparently has it running again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ASi6yAiAA

He's posted a number of pictures and discussions of the machine after the fact and it looks/sounds like it's fully recovered.

In http://cars.talkzilla.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=15032 you can even still see what is probably the muck line on the machine.

Not that people typically throw away a 973 because it got wet or buried or whatever.

[ryan32]

Doesn't look like I can edit my post to replace the picture link with the picture itself, so I'll just include the picture here.

<img src="http://images.cars.talkzilla.com/images/uploads/flbnt973_7.jpg">

[ryan32]

One last try:

http://images.cars.talkzilla.com/images/uploads/flbnt973_7.jpg

or

<img src="http://images.cars.talkzilla.com/images/uploads/flbnt973_7.jpg" />

[AtlasRob]

You mean like this :D

Right click a picture and save as ( insert name) in a folder on your computer that you can find again :) then upload it as norm.

On edit, spotted that is only your third post so you would not have been able to load the picture. You should be ok now you have 3 posts.

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Here it is in the water

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[ryan32]

[QUOTE=AtlasRob;150466]You mean like this :D

Right click a picture and save as ( insert name) in a folder on your computer that you can find again :) then upload it as norm.

On edit, spotted that is only your third post so you would not have been able to load the picture. You should be ok now you have 3 posts.

Thanks, Rob.

It still says IMG is off for me.

Aha! I see it now. Didn't see the "Attach" button in the editor previously.

Apparently the guy is either a slow learner and/or is working in some really difficult conditions, because if you saw the video description, he referred to that lake as "Lake Bermuda" because so many machines have gotten stuck and nearly lost in it. It's apparently dry most of the time but I think we know just how "dry" muck is once you get past the surface. And I think he said the muck buildup was something like 12 or 14 feet deep.

He's got a picture somewhere there of his backhoe buried way deep in nearly the same spot and said a neighbor got his 963 stuck trying to help pull the backhoe out, and his JCB 260L excavator semi-stuck near the same spot.

[Iron Horse]

A photo in a machine magazine i picked up at a machinery expo in Brisbane last week .

[53cummins]

must have been pretty rough surf to move that much sand around

[jimmyjack]

i think theres more pics of that machine on the beach some were on here but im not sure , i saw them somewhere i just think it was on here

[buddy605]

Best looking Crapatsu I have seen in a long time.

[Iron Horse]

Here Puss Puss ?

[Hendrik]

Here Puss Puss ?
The lights are but nobody is home.
Amazing that it is still running, driver has probably gone to get some scuba gear and wants the cab nice and warm for when he/she gets back.

[Beachbum0286]

A photo in a machine magazine i picked up at a machinery expo in Brisbane last week .

That was in Avalon, New Jersey. I think it was a PC 1250,obviously it found a soft spot. I saw it in person, it took them forever to get it out.

[alco]

Amazing that it is still running, driver has probably gone to get some scuba gear and wants the cab nice and warm for when he/she gets back.

It's not running, the exhaust flapper is just jammed open. Trust me, it was thoroughly dead...lol.

Brian

[AtlasRob]

Trust me, it was thoroughly dead...lol.


I cant trust you anymore ................................ the lights are still on, it must be alive, it must, it must :crying

[Iron Horse]

I did'nt realise that picture had allready been posted , sorry about that .

[Hendrik]

It's not running, the exhaust flapper is just jammed open. Trust me, it was thoroughly dead...lol.

Brian
Fair enough, I had a look back through the thread and saw the picture of the D10R after it was pulled out and the rain cap is still open.
However in theory it was possible for it still to be running as the air intake was above water.
But we do know that the wiring for the right working lights is water proof:D

[CAT D9H]

I think I'll add some pics here you go

[mudmaker]

I know it isnt heavy equipment, but it is my pickup stuck on a job site. It was froze earlier in the day, but not this time.

[ryan32]

You mean like this :D

Right click a picture and save as ( insert name) in a folder on your computer that you can find again :) then upload it as norm.

On edit, spotted that is only your third post so you would not have been able to load the picture. You should be ok now you have 3 posts.



We'll see if it works now. He posted about the buried backhoe here (http://cars.talkzilla.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=15925)

[qball]

wow! what a cluster....
if you get everything stuck, how do you get to the tavern?

[mudmaker]

Wow!:dizzy

[John H]

:eek: I am at a loss for words...