I'll try to find the pics of another great "stuck". My father works for a coal mine company and on a reclamation job one of the guys got a D11 stuck when he was cleaning out the bed of a lake they had just drained. If I recall correctly, the cab floor height on a D11 is about 12 feet high. In the pictures, the guy opened the cab door and walked out even with the mud! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
That one was a very expensive "stuck". It took two shifts and three other D11's to get it out. You add up the man power, and the machine time, the site foreman was not a happy man. It also proved the operator of the first D11 wrong when he had proclaimed that his D11 with his "swamper" tracks and 6" grousers "would go through anything". Obviously not! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Oh yeah, they had a near by farmer with a Versitile (sp?) that had triples on each end tried to get it out. He nearly became a victim himself. It was only due to his tractor articulating in the middle that he was able to work his way out.