Shit happens sometimes. Shit can go bad quick when working on soft ground I've seen skidders stuck , d8 bull dozers drownedd in beach restorations jobs , tractors stuck in farm fields all by good operators. The key thing is to stop trying to get yourself out and just make it worse
Seeing this dump truck conquer rugged terrain with ease makes me appreciate the engineering marvels behind heavy machinery. It’s like watching a giant at work.
Brings back a bad memory of getting stuck in a muskeg 'sippy hole' while working for my dad years ago in SE Alaska near Ketchikan, AK. We had rented a Hitachi UH181 with a winch on the boom for short yarding in combinaton with shovel logging and loading log trucks. Anyway, the shovel had no belly plate (came to us that way) so it should not have been taken off-road but it was too tempting. Took us two days to dig all of the clay and mud out of the belly of the beast. Had to do it twice and replace all hydraulic hoses twice! Very humbling experience! Great video!
If this seems bad, look at what Seattle had to go through. The tunnel boring machine they were using broke down deep under the downtown Seattle waterfront. They had to create a giant access hole just to bring it to the surface to make repairs. $300 million dollars and two years later, it was fixed, and finally could continue on from the spot in which it broke.
I work for a CAT dealer doing inspections and preps on the rental equipment. We have to do the inspections withing 48 hours of the customer returning the machine so that if we find damage done from stuff like this. The coustomer then has to foot the bill. So when we had a week where I was busy fixing a coolant leak on a roller a lot of customers got away with a lot of shit.
You guys just couldn’t wait . I just pulled out my friend Al , he stuck his brand new Deere300 . Should of never ever been near that spot. That is a ROOKIE Move..straight up thrashing a machine
I remeber some documentary about WWII: "Tiger instruction manual: If you want to know is your Tiger tank won`t sunken walk onto the ground get your fellow on your back and than stand on one foot. If you won`t sunk with a person on your back and being on one foot then your tank won`t sunk as well"
A man's got to know his limitations and his machines limitations as well ! It's HEAVY ,and it WILL SINK ! But that operator could have pulled some brush and trees up to the tracks then using the bucket , dragged them up to the tracks and crab walked it up on them , making his way out !
Nice job guys that wasn't easy but an that dozer looks screwed lol I got faith y'all will get it. An yes I know this vid is damn near ten years old but oh well
Kids "Dad" Howes is here to help you with your Excavator needs. The next you get your dad's Excavator stuck. Remember this video. Often, there's no need to panic. This holds true for adults too.
This is a common occurrence witg tracked logging equipment out here in the swamps of Eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. There are a few machines that lay where they fell, all you can see is the tip of the boom sticking out of the ground.
that thing can pull itself out..that operator is panic. i watch something like this an unexperiece operator. my uncle got in and operated out of the mud..dont rent it if you have no skills.
I worked at a gravel pit a few years ago and the cat equipment worked all day day in day out without fail. Occasionally they would bring in a hiatachi loader in to try it out and it usually would not make it 3 days before breaking down
I got a 963 Caterpillar track loader stuck while cleaning out a pond once ! I have been operating heavy machinery for 30 years! All it takes is one mistake!
I cant figure out WHY someone didnt notice a problem way ahead of where the video started. The fact that they continued to work it makes me wonder if they even cared since it was a rental
This is what happens when people who have no business or training get into heavy equipment. The 320 could have got itself out no problem with an experienced operator. As for the dozer at the end I have no idea how anyone could fuck up that bad.
Well my first impression is that this jobsite should be set up with wellpoint pumps, dried up enough to work it to start with, there is no bottom to this ground.
Ground probably looked fine until they took a machine on to it. Like the man said, sometimes it's just too wet, but sometimes you don't realise until it's too late. Then, the more you struggle, the wetter it gets. You've made a hole and water flows downhill!
Comment,: Just for the record how big is the equipment that you used in part 2. What is the displacement of the engines ? Do you think a Cat 345 would have worked? I remember driving a 345 ? at the Cat proving grounds ( in those days, Cat would let workers go out and experience driving vehicles). Someone in the group buried a D6 in the mud, not water, and the young cooridnator came over and took the 345 Excavator which I was driving. He then went and put the bucket over the D6 and picked it up out of the mud, not water.. Oh! I was driving a 130 (close) Motor Grader (no steering wheel), and that was an esperience.
How do you know? Eh? Eh? How Mr Smarty Pants ? 😜 Hello from Nakina Ontario Canada and hope all is well as can be during these times. And sorry , I just *HAD* to *!!!*
I don't know where the giant skid like platform came from but that sure looked like the only salvation with the help of the other machine and operator.
Operator , Operator, Operator...I bet he did JUST what the land owner told him to do... Its ok just a little wet, i just had a bozer in there yesterday before the rain.. Nice job getting out,thank god for Joe Penley Matts, Beaumont Texas, See Ya
I've made a damn good living for 20 years walking machines across bottomless ground. It won't take but a Time or two of dragging some 1 inch cable and having to dig the track frame out by hand to hook it
Hi fellow operator's . I have operated for close to 40 years and yes , shit does happen and I just blame it on my spotter. I however feed my family and if my machine is down or in the drink I make no money so I would NEVER put me or my machine at risk at anytime on the job. Must be easy to get ticketed nowadays.
As an operator I have seen this kind of thing and done this kind of thing. Machine brand has nothing to do with it. Only the operator. Always pushed to the limits by the boss and hung out to dry if it doesn't work out. Your either a hero or a zero, no in between.
Lucky that the local or state conservation office did not show up wile this was going on. Clearly they are working within wetlands, wonder if they had a Army Corp permit for disturbing wetlands, not to mention an NPDES permit
Great recovery! Still can't figure out why man is so silly to take something so heavy out into the mud without testing the area first. Would have saved time, machine and money.
+passtimer vascularity of the soil! You can track out on what seems like a fairly stable underfoot conditions and a few minutes later the machine will start pumping the ground and bring the water up to the surface.
Exactly. Sometimes you only get a few passes before it turns to pudding. But it usually doesn't turn out that way, and the man's got a job to do. No one gets praise for being the most timid operator.
@@stipcrane But GREAT operators get heaps of praise and a GREAT operator would have assessed the risk and put things in place so as not to get stuck. Being reckless and getting on with a job are 2 entirely different things.
Skids are a necessity when dealing with swamp mud... It is well worth the little extra effort that it takes to haul them around on jobsites, But you'll be happy you did at the end of the day when you saved yourself thousands of dollars
this is my nightmare. I have two ponds to clean out / build. 3' topsoil, 4' gray muck then finally hard rocky clay. Once you shake through the topsoil its AMF.
Thats why when renting or hiring a machine they need to make sure that the person/s operating not driving r compitant. Not just say 'derr I can steer that'. U Muppet
@@rl2769 Na I'm not. I'm a 30 year experienced operator. And I've never been brain dead enough to get myself in fuckt up position like that. 'PEANUT' Is that better.
My back neighbor operates a 8T and companies quote jobs cheaper based on him being their operator, if they can't lock him in for the contract they are quoting they have to allow a fairly substantial margin for other operators time/errors. I got him over to do some work one weekend and it was a beautiful thing to watch him work, not a wasted movement, hits level by eye from the cab, just at 1 with the machine. I've seen many good operators over a number of machine types but I've only ever seen 2 fantastic operates and that is my neighbor and a bobcat operator many years ago who was the same with his machine.
Man, that's avoidable, but it takes expertise and experience to know what/when to avoid. I wonder if he would have done that if he owned those machines?
