State Law Enforcement Wants This Stuck Excavator Gone NOW (Real Life Quicksand) 

I'm a 70 year old man, I have been in the construction business and mining equipment parts and maintenance. I've been in all kinds of situations with broken equipment. We had a dead axel on a D9 cat to break. We got the old one out and they wanted us to load the dozer on a truck and send it to press in a new dead axel. We emptied out a refrigerator and put the new dead axel in it wrapped it in burlap and dry ice. The next morning me and my partner Reggie loaded it in the bed of a pickup and headed to where the dozer was broken down. Mechanics at the dozer put two rosebud torches heating up the frame hole for the dead axel. We had the old dead axel hanging from a crane line. Reggie and I got the new axel out of the pickup carried the maybe 10 feet to the dozer. Set it in place and used the old dead axel to hit this one on the end. Two taps with the old axel and it was in place and you could hear the metal bump and stretch as the axel warmed up. We were all pleased with ourselves the way you guys were please with yourself. Good job.

That highway scene looked like they were filming a new Transformers..

Probably the coolest convoy any man has ever put together

Just started watching your videos and I have never seen a group work so good as a team. I'm 67 retired auto and Aviation mechanic. Only thing I would have did different is absolutely nothing, you guys rock the sand bar. Thanks for sharing.

My brother is the only person I know that sank in the Great Salt Lake. No matter how much he tried, he sank to the bottom. He’d laugh if you named the Excavator “Charlie.” My brother passed 22 years ago. He was a mechanic, and would have LOVED your channel. Excavator Charlie.

These recoveries are awesome. The ingenuity with the trucks and the plans you'll come up with to recover what you do is amazing. Keep doing these great works.

😂 I can't get enough of this, just a middle aged guy from Sydney Australia watching some mad recoveries... Love the mud and the fact you play it as you see it. Just awesome.

I have to admit. That this is one of the best shows on RU-vid. TV is never this good

Many years ago I was a rigger in the strip mines assembling, disassembling and moving heavy equipment. Hands down, you’re having far more fun than I ever did. Great job.

This recovery is so underrated, they literally had just the right machines and even more important... the right people, hats off to you and your crew.

Dude, The way you and your crew do recovery work is absolutely amazing!! As a retired combat veteran of the U.S Army, you definitely know how to plan things out from A to Z. I salute you, bro!!

Another great recovery. Your site should be shown in high school to show how all sorts of people can work together to solve difficult problems and get a great outcome. Real inspiration.

i can barely watch a 20 min episode of anything on netflix but i watched this all the way through without pausing or skipping. love it

The trip across the sand bar looks like something straight out of mad max

I learned about you through AWP. I now binge watching your videos! It’s great to see people work together and how much you love what you do.

Fantastic Dave, I love the fact you recover these machines and clean up the environment in doing so.

HD “ we may look capable, but we’re not”. I literally spit beer threw my nose.

Never seen an excavator jump a table top in my life. That was epic.

I love how politely the conservation guy said " get your shit off the island"

That recovery went really well and surprisingly with no incidents and or breakdowns or getting stuck. FANTASTIC 👍👍👍

This dude literally lives snow runner in real life

Love how you guys repurpose those military vehicles. They were my life for 20 yrs. You got my full undivided attention when the 900 series wrecker goes out. It’s under powered in my opinion but it gets the job done. Plenty of pmcs and maintenance required. Seems like you make it worth having with the recovery missions you have in your work and environment. You guys Rock

Its crazy how much fun you can have with a few friends and a bunch of retired military equipment

I am really impressed with you and your teams dedication to help people in jams. I appreciate your attitude to dig in your heals to help people in need!! Please don’t lose that!! Your team works together! You care!!! Thanks!!! And no cursing!!!

I feel the cool running's reference was under appreciated

Great job guys. I owned a towing company for nine years, Worked for other tow companies 10 years prior. Always-love doing off-road recoveries.

Ah yesss, new video! Can’t think of a better way to close out the weekend!

Watching your videos from over the pond in England, I love it! As a truck driver over here, all your trucks seem enormous!! Must be AWESOME to drive these magnificent monsters regularly. Big respect and much love.

Guys love these recoveries! Your tenacity and passion for what you do are seriously not only commendable but are very entertaining as well! Get her done you monster man!

Diesel Dave just set a Guinness World record, for the fastest Excavator in the world.

Appreciate what you guys are doing. Having the means and ability to do that type of work is great!. Knowing the landscape and the machinery is a bonus!!

I recently found your channel and i just love what you guys are doing, the friendship, adventures, dedication and humor. This is Mad Max with all these vehicles, its absolutely amazing. Watching from the Netherlands Europe.

Congratulations!! Well done everyone. Hat's off to our Parks and Forestry Dept.

Those trucks rolling across the sand bar looked like a scene out of Mad Max.

As a “gofer” to my “weekend mechanic” husband, it was very exciting to watch you get the excavator started. I also enjoyed watching with “almost reckless abandon” as you pulled the excavator out of the hole. A job well done to the whole team. :-)

Love watching these videos. It's obvious you guys have been working together for quite a while because everyone knows what to do right away and they do it without being told. Great crew, and very interesting task you guys take on.

These guys literally became the best rescue team 😂

Love watching you guys and all your hard work and imagination in getting the job done. Love even more sitting here watching my screen, warm dry, and not having to work anymore.

the shots of you guys driving across the sandbar bring back memories of the Mad Max movies!! great stuff

I just came across you guys a week or so ago and I am hooked! Watching you guys MAKE IT HAPPEN and BE THE DIFFERENCE truly makes my day!

Legend has it that Diesel Dave is still out there somewhere driving his excavator across the flats...

That Oshkosh truck/tractor is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. The footage of it driving on the dry lake bed could have fooled most people thinking it was from a Mad Max special or something. As bad ass as it can possibly be 🤟🏻💣🏴‍☠️

Because it went so smoothly , people don't quite get just what an awkward recovery that actually was . Well Done Gentlemen .

Love seeing your fleet of vehicles coming down the road. People have to think something crazy’s going on when they see your fleet.

Great Job! you made it look easy. I thought you were going to wind up taking the excavator apart and hauling it out a piece at a time. CONGRATULATIONS to you AND the team!

U can see that officer looking exactly at that spilled oil on the ground

That excavator’s dreams of being a race car came true.

HELL OF AN AMAZING DIFFICULT JOB MADE TO LOOK EASY. YOU WERE RIGHT THE STARS HAD TO BE ALIGNED WITH ALL OF YOU. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you didn't send that old excavator to the scrapyard. She's pulled off enough miracles to deserve a rebuild and new lease on life.

Great Job, half the job is having the tools to work with and then the Team that knows how. You have both, making this potentially difficult recovery look so easy. You Men Rock !!!

Ahhh could have totally added the “Autobots.. let’s roll out” somewhere in there lol

I grew up on a small family farm in Marlboro NJ. My pop always had bulldozer’s, frontend loader, a case 580e with extend a hoe and clam controls. I own a audio/video company and love watching you and your crew. I miss him more than I can put into words. Watching you folks work together reminds me of my pop and my three brothers. Thank you for the videos.

I finally came back and finished the Vid. This was the first one I saw from you guys. As a H8 Operator I know the planning and backbreaking work that goes into a recovery. You are definitely correct about working with others. I can't tell you how many times we had to recover vehicles from other Units that had burned in. You're dealing with the Post Command, the Unit that owned the equipment, the EPA and your own Chain of Command. 10 times out of 10 I was the lowest Ranking of the bunch and everybody wanted it done yesterday. Eventually I got a good 1SG, Battalion Commander and Division Commander who backed me up. To do it right takes time. They understood that.

Heavy d needs his own oil rig to fuel them toys.

Definitely also need the offroad low boy that goes with the Oshkosh

I guess I should have been a heavy equipment operator in my youth. Great show! Btw I’m 72 and love watching y’all.

Honestly no joke I would not have done it any differently. Well Done . Congratulations to all of you guys . Really awesome job. I remember helping to recover a tipped over semi with a trailer full of frozen concentrated juice and as it got hot outside sliding in the thawed juice and falling on my ass as we emptied the trailer and it took 16 and a half hours to complete the job. I'm jealous

I love how at 31:26 there was a can of WD-40 on the track and it got absolutely flattened.

Was I the only one that thought of transformers when they were just cruising on the sand bar😂

Congratulations for making it across the lake buddy

You are really lucky the sand held up that well today, made the recovery easy on you. IMHO towing heavy equipment with no brakes requires (two) tow bars rather than chains and straps, they don't get under the tracks and you aren't chased by it downhill. Much more control and safer. Keep up your great work.

Cool that you guys work well as a team. Like you actually like each other.

Great job! I admire how you give back. I pray you never loose site of where you started. Keep up the great humanitarian adventures. I’m a disabled veteran, don’t leave my house much and hate to be reliant on others. Your videos are a great release. Thank you.

Removing the drive gears and flat towing was genius! You guys would be fun to hang out with ❤

I love these videos-good sense of humor and teamwork. Your show makes the difficulty look so easy. Keep making them

That was a pure blessing that everything went the way it should have.

The State of Utah is lucky to have you guys. After being fined just to come back and help the State out.

Great content! I'm an operator and wish i could go on one of these journey's with you guys. I love the problem solving and challenges of these situations. Especially when everything looks like there's no hope left and then at the end of the day the whole team pulls thru. There is no better feeling! Thanks for the videos!

It’s not a miracle it was the island giving you a farewell for treating her properly and cleaning her up for the next people.

Never in my life thought I'd see a excavator move that fast, let alone catch some airtime. Hats off to you and your crew for such a great recovery. 🤘🤘🤘

You guys are amazing. A well planned job makes it look easy.

The bad ass for good cause..... Finally!!!! Humans that talk and work and relate and like each other ........ what a concept

That was awesome and I know they were happy to finally get that problem taken care of! Ya'll know your stuff!

Imagine having this many toys and tools at your disposal. still impressive

You made that look very easy! I could tell that you were very nervous through the whole recovery and very surprised in the end when it went so smoothly. Great job!!

Congratulations on the recovery and I think y’all are doing an awesome job

There's nothing more impressive than a HETT doing a combat off-load of an M1 Abrams.

😂😂😂😂listen roll those SPROCKETS CLICKITY CLACK’N SOOOOO FAST 😂😂🤣🤣 that’s funny as hell

Fantastic all the way through!! Bunch of 'Good ol Boys" doing great work.

Nice to see a plan come together!! Keep up the great work and helping people on the way. I'm sure the state is happy

What an amazing video. All in the name of nature. It's great that you guys cleaned up that island for future generations to enjoy nature the way it was intended. Great job guys!!!

That Oshkosh, is so dope, looks sick af with that MASSIVE front

Just bloody awesome, I wish we had stuff that was abandoned in New Zealand like this to pick up, what you do is absolutely up my ally. Keep it up good to watch!

Dudes.... I watched this whole thing and loved EVERY SINGLE MINUTE of it! Thanks for the great vlog!

That murdered out kenworth is sick af!

I liked officer Jason's attitude from the get go, what a cool guy 💪

That was awesome. My 82 year old father drove the M48 Tank in the Army and we own and mine in New Mexico on our Mining claims that date back to 1865 when our family homesteaded in 1865. I love your video's. Diesel Power 12 Valve Cummins for ever.

Faster than those tracks were ever meant to go.

I first came to know of you was this last week when i started looking at a channel that i occasionally look at from time to time . i had watched some of his first videos when the channel was new. It is jeff alone in his ghost town Cerro Gordo. The last ones i saw the hotel had just burned down and jeff was salvaging from the smoldering embers. Then i picked it back up last week beginning with the foundation footings passing code and the pour. What a phenomenally beautiful demonstration of team work on the natural. I think you must have the best life in the world. I was mostly impressed when you honored the people that came and worked with you on this labor of respect . im and old lady now but i think you are the coolest thing sinced sliced bread. A person any age for many reasons can find a soulful purpose that what they saw and learned that inspires a deeper meaning that inspires their individual experiance . and no two would have any thing to do with the other. Bravo

The quote “we may look capable but we’re not” hit me hard

Diesel always makes me chuckle. All the guys are funny but he's the funniest

Was totally an awesome recovery, Thank you guys for what you do.

First time I've seen a state agency be so nice and let you do things your way.

Probably the best non “Diesel Brothers” Diesel Brothers video I’ve seen. One of the best videos I’ve ever seen on RU-vid without a Discovery Channel film crew and no commercials either since I’m on that RU-vid Premium life. 💪🏻

That was satisfying to watch. The team works well together. Great job.

Yall needed a military style towbar that we used for pulling our tanks with.

This is amazing, man is living a dream! Thanks for sharing it with us all :)

You guys are just making me miss home since I joined the military my house is five min away from your shop

Loved watching you problem solve and cut up with each other. Congratulations on a job well done!

I never thought recovering a broken excavator be this exciting and entertaining .. 🤩🤩 good work keep it up.. ❤️❤️