My pond ATE my Dump Truck!!

[EddieWalker]

Yes it's true. Today, while cleaning out the silt that has built up in my small pond, my pond got an attitude and swollowed my dump truck!!!

Eddie

 

[AndyMA]

Yup. it's in there/ I guess the good news is that it's not in further. I'm sure you know this but you shouldn't dump it until it's on level groaund. If you do it's either go over or twist the frame and box. Any plans on how to get it out. If I was there with my excavator I would be able to lift out the rear of it and move you forward. Good luck.

Andy

 

[EddieWalker]

As you can see in the previous pictures, it wasn't my fault!!!

I was just putting silt into the dumptruck, minding my own business, and pretty clueless about the attack that was about to take place. In fact, it wasn't until I was in the driver seat and giving it gas that I realized something was wrong!!

The more gas I gave the truck, the more the tires spun, the faster I went in the wrong direction. Of course, the brakes were no match for the pull of the pond, and in one big gulp, it swollowed the rear end!!!

After regaining my composure, and getting the camera , I hooked up my chain and tried to pull my dump truck out. Nope, this didn't work at all. Total failure.

Luckily my neighbor was around and noticed what the pond had done, so in a moment of sympathy, he went and got his bakhoe. Between the two of us, we were able to pull my dumptruck free from what would have surely been a long drawn out meal for my pond.

I really had no idea it was a truck eating pond!!!

After that little scare, I learned to park the dump truck so that it was lined up with my backhoe. Then I put the bucket behind the bed so that it can't possible become another snack for the pond.

Lesson learned,
Eddie

 

[6sunset6]

I don't have any pictures , digital anyway , but had a truck about like that.
Filled it right up to the off road legal limit . Which is as much as you can get in it. Moved to the dump spot. Dumped. Forgot to let loose the tailgate.
ok The body started up , then the cylinder started tearing the cross bars off the bottom of the box 1 , 2 and 3. 3 did not quite get torn off. The cylinder ram bent. The box was full of dirt.
What a mess. took a month to fix it. I was lucky, it was dry, I had an old crane and a backhoe. Local machine shop bent the shaft back while it was extended. $100. I think a truck eating pond could have been worse if the hook had been set.

 

[RobS]

Nope Eddie, you've got it all wrong. Your pond didn't eat your dump truck; your dump truck got sick and tired of you guys going fishing, swimming, boating etc. and just wanted in on some of that action. Maybe you need a dump truck barge for equal time!

Good to see you got back on solid ground, that was quite a stuck!

 

[txdon]

I think you just took the stuck truck title away from Harvey.
If your neighbor would not have been there would you have used your dozer next?

 

[TrippleT]

Did you check underneath to see if the drive shaft was bent? Or other things that may be bent? That thing was really down.

 

[BTDT]

Dummy......oh, sorry, not you Eddie. That's what my wife tells me when I do something like that. "I knew you was going to get stuck. I knew you couldn't pull that, blah, blah, blah." See, no one would have known here on TBN if you hadn't of posted the pics. If anyone had asked what you done this weekend, you could have just said you messed around down by the lake. But now everyone knows. And it just adds to your popularity. So, maybe a "Good job, Eddie!" is in order. Nothing like a nice quiet weekend at home, huh.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

So Eddie gets his truck stuck (big time) and the first thing he thinks of is us, and he gets the camera. What a guy!

Thanks for the photos Eddie. Always nice to know that this sort of thing can happen to anybody. I am amazed that there wasn't significant damage to the truck balancing on it's middle like that. That's a tough truck.

Cliff

 

[TBDonnelly]

Now, if you would not have gone ahead and told me all the details.....I would have thought you were setting the truck up to become a projectile and land in the far away 'dump zone'.

Are you sure that's not what you were doing?

Don