Dirtman2007
Senior Member
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2007
- Messages
- 1,202
- Location
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Occupation
- Heavy Equipment Operator
Thought today was going to be another great day, sit in the A/C, listen to the radio and knock down trees all day. Nope about 30 minutes into today my skid steer operator manages to knock the track of the skid steer. well after about an hour we finally got it back on as we were very limited on the tools we had. so everything goes pretty good until early afternoon. I'm on the the volvo on the other end of the job, my buddy's wroking on the other side pushing up the fire, then I glempse flames behind his cab.
So he starts tracking way from the fire and the machine just quits ( I guess cause the wires/ computer started to melt. So I go hauling ass over ripping the pin out of my fire egstingisher and give it hell, got one heck off a mouthfull of burning hydro fluid, rubber and diesel smoke. well that only only slowed the flames, so i run to the truck and get two 5 gallon buckets start runing back on forth to the creek getting water. After about 6 or 7 trips each we had it out as I almost passed out from the heat. breathing like 80 year old smokers we sit at the water cooler and take in what the heck just happened.
so now we have a realtively new deere 160 that, want run, every hydraulic hose is burnt, computer fried, 40' from a pile thats still burning like hell. So I get the volvo and just dump dirt on the fire and put it out.
Tomorrow the dealers coming out to take apart the drive motorrs so that we can drag it up on a lowboy and get it out of there.
really suck for the owner of the machine, only machine he had that was working/ making some money and this happens... good thing for insurance.
But on the bright side i'm going to go look at that 650 H dozer in the morning
It's really worse than what the pictures show... got so hot flames were shooting through the radio speaker holes in the cab
So he starts tracking way from the fire and the machine just quits ( I guess cause the wires/ computer started to melt. So I go hauling ass over ripping the pin out of my fire egstingisher and give it hell, got one heck off a mouthfull of burning hydro fluid, rubber and diesel smoke. well that only only slowed the flames, so i run to the truck and get two 5 gallon buckets start runing back on forth to the creek getting water. After about 6 or 7 trips each we had it out as I almost passed out from the heat. breathing like 80 year old smokers we sit at the water cooler and take in what the heck just happened.
so now we have a realtively new deere 160 that, want run, every hydraulic hose is burnt, computer fried, 40' from a pile thats still burning like hell. So I get the volvo and just dump dirt on the fire and put it out.
Tomorrow the dealers coming out to take apart the drive motorrs so that we can drag it up on a lowboy and get it out of there.
really suck for the owner of the machine, only machine he had that was working/ making some money and this happens... good thing for insurance.
But on the bright side i'm going to go look at that 650 H dozer in the morning
It's really worse than what the pictures show... got so hot flames were shooting through the radio speaker holes in the cab