Spring has sprung and the race to rebuild is on! Mammoth Lakes May 2023 

That excavator could have a TV show of it's own, Stuck Ex's of Mammoth Lakes.

What a classic illustration of getting bogged down!!! Sooo sorry to see the mess. Wow.

The situation with your equipment stuck in the mud gives me the giggles. Love Bud and Sadie.

King Air is what the planes are

8:00 felt that in my stomach silently cheering for extraction!

Few logs laid horizontal would give you something to get up on.

Hello from Siesta Key Florida

they make " poor mans filet" out of sirloin quit often. a lot of the pre packaged " filets" are just trimmed up sirloin. Looks like you got the ehem, MAMMOTH size. Thanks folks,, ill be here al week. lol

Haul a front end loader up and drag the excavator out of the mud

I'd bring in another trackhoe, & clear all those mounds away, make channels for the water to flow away from the stuck machine. You want the stuck machine will be on high ground

When you raise the tracks, try to put some logs/wood under it, maybe that will help it to gain traction.

Could just grab you some of those downed trees and bridge your way out 🤔🤷‍♂️🤠👍

The excavator stuck in the mud reminds me of how dinosaurs 🦕🦖 may have perished.

excellent video 👍👍

Put some railway ties under those tracks to get that excavator out of that hole.

So I see the solution for your excavator. You have logs in the background. Grab a few of the logs lift the front end up with bucket. Put under put weight on it spin it under then grab another and do same. Again and again till your out. Been there

I remember the Winter & massive runoff in 1968-9, I was a coastal flatlander that left the south coast for the mountains that year, it was my first of 54 winters to come, living in the Sierras everywhere from Lee Vining to Lone Pine, after a winter such as '69, the village & county were strapped for labor, very short handed to handle the deluge from both the winter's snow load & then the massive late spring/ summer runoff, machines of that era were not very plentiful & very crude & unreliable by todays standards or non existent all together. A lot of hand shoveling during the winters snow & then re- directing the spring runoff around structures & downhill out & away from the village. Mammoth Lakes was a actually a village at that time with a permanent year round population of under 400. Not sure but I think Mammoth has about 2X the population of Bishop these days. Most the side streets & the few residential areas that did exist in 1969 were unpaved or light duty & quickly became washed out rushing creeks, mud bogs and swamps. Getting to where i lived in Old Mammoth could be a real task in the mud especially around the meadows, In winter cross country skis or show shoes were the best sensible mode of transport for getting to town. I can only imagine the logistical headaches these days especially on weekends with all the development, the traffic, impatient demanding & usually unprepared people. I am sure alot was gleened from this winter about building structures, placement of pipes and utilities, parking and where to put the snow that's being removed, as well as how to direct the runoff to prevent those new hazards & property damages. Definately a destination resort today, Though i left when the village population reached about 1000 residents, Did June lake which didn't change that much, but i changed as i got older and not so cold tolerant & headed for the valley below & the Southern Sierras where i been for the past 34 years. Hats off to you folks that keep the high country passible..It.s a massive task & workload, but with plenty of labor available and the modern machines used these days to make the unthinkable doable.

What a royal mess of muddy water n dirty snow yet to melt!! Patience is needed here!!

Thanks for the shots of Twin Lakes. We spent over forty years in that campground and helped out at the store for several years, staying behind the store in our RV. Needless to say, we love the Mammoth area.

You should set up a time lapse camera on that waterfall. It would be epic to watch the progression of the snowmelt and water rise.

Great job on these videos. A ton of work on top of the plowing and running a business. Thanks for posting and keeping us absentee folks up to date.

First from a rainy Florida ☔️

keep the shots of twin lakes and benton crossing coming as we are scheduled to come in mid July. Snow should mostly be gone as far as the campgrounds..we hope.

You can't get your head around how big the Long Valley supervolcano is, nor how much tephra got blown out of that thing when it erupted. It's humbling.

you got logs right there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cut them to size, make a track matt your out

Time to call HeavyD!!!

you do nice work

I was wondering if you'd use water barriers to help move the snow-water somehow use the water use barriers to direct where you want it to go, for gardens or for fighting future fires, up in Canada they are having a heck of a time fighting the fires, would be a shame to somehow take that snow-water, put it to some good use.

Butterfly that beef; MPSC, I need a list to order from; These guys seem somewhat evasive on that note. And that was not Owen, what did you do with him?

That's called a "baseball cut" sirloin.

Need to call letsdig to fly out there and get the excavator out lol. He’s had lots of experience

Benton crossing, a town out of the twilight zone.

You need to use those logs on the side there & between the bucket arm & logs, you should be able to bring the machine UP on top of the muck, instead of THROUGH the muck...just saying.

I bull-eve they call that sirloin 'baseball cut'.... Also wondering why you aren't dumping loads of aggregate on all that mud?

Dave Sparks and a couple of his guys could get that mini-ex out. He's all about helping fellow RU-vidrs.

You and your team SAVED the entire community! Wow, you folks are tough, as in TOUGH!! Great job: I hope that you don't see any new snow until next January. Oh yes, hope it's a hot (fire-free), but HOT summer for you guys.

😮 looks like hydrants are emptying out on streets...😅

It looks all clear for the hotsprings, this Monday. I would live out there in a sec. Away from people.

Stuck in the mud again. So now it will have to be pulled out.

Every time you show the excavator it’d be nice to hear the song “Stunk On You” 🎶🎶🎶 by Dave Fenley or Lionel Richie 😉

Ammonium nitrate will melt off the snow and ice without damaging the concrete.

Sky crane can get your excavator out 🤪

Maybe you should call Heavy D Sparks in for a removal, could be an epic show.... !!

Why not take a loader, a cable and try and pull that excavator out? Maybe some tree trunks right in front of the tracks so they can bite into those and get traction to get up and over, together with the Loader..

What a disaster! How could anyone hose it up that bad? I’d put Owen in a tent and live out there until its out.

My summer cabin is on twin lakes #6. Any casualties back there? I'm sure you can't even get back there yet

Time to sell that excavator or trade it in, engine compartment sitting in mud, tracks been marinating in muck for 3 weeks now that machine need the help of that bulldozers,computer going be going of like fireworks, all those bearings and drivemotors on those tracks going to be sanding themselves apart from all that dirt gettingg inside.

You need a dozer to pull out that excavator imo. Even a large tow truck 50 ton or so.

The airplanes are King Airs made by Beechcraft….

Free A/C!!

How’d it get left in that hole before the weather hit?

If you’s flew me out there I can guarantee I’d have that 308 out in under five minutes… it’s apparent none of you’s are operators, I could see the guy working the levers and then taking his hands off to work the travel sticks…you’ll never as you have shown, will get out of a hole unless your using the travel pedals with your feet and pulling on the sticks at the same time to get you up and out of the mud hole. You should of brought that mini over and trenched it so the soup had somewhere to go, this way you could lower the water level and not killed the engine. Love your videos, but jeez they should never rent equipment to your squad…god forbid you bought it and destroyed the engine already.