Kinda funny.

[Joel/ak]

@Joel/ak I'm rooting for the next installment in this saga! Yes, I'd take the day off if Matt was coming, too.

Remember these?

I guess I have been stranded in enough places without good recovery points, that this particular recovery looks like a piece of cake, so I am amused at how long it is taking and how complex it is getting. Probably company policy not to do it yourself, right? I remember carrying snow shovel like winch anchor points for sand and mud, and having to hand winch things out. It took awhile, but we always get ourselves, and others, out.

Still, I think a tandem axle would be a great investment for this particular truck, if not 6x6. Hmmm business opportunity?

All the best,

Peter

I got a couple of those pads in our swamp from loggers. I'm still trying to figure out a way to get them to dry land. I could use them.

When wife was talking with the workers at the gate, one of there company trucks came off the powerlines and I guess the driver just glared at the workers. None of the workers knew who it was.

I left a message with their corporate sat cuz I don't like our road ripped out and mentioned they have a small time frame to get that truck out before it gets real bad.

I guess someone in management checked it out.

Funny how everyone knew what happened but no one was driving.

Oh well

 

[Joel/ak]

2nd one is still laying flat. That's what 6 ft of water can do...lol

 

[Joel/ak]

Basically they don't know what they are doing and I think trying to keep it quiet from corporate. One of the guys said they felt the truck sinking deeper and deeper but just stood on the throttle....even though no one knows who was driving.

They got a skid steer out there that makes a better anchor than a field expedient ground anchor.

Wife's going out in the morning to let them in and to cut some more firewood. Hope to get updated pics

 

[Jstpssng]

A good sized excavator would get that out of there in no time. Mats like those shown by Ponytug would help. They are used a lot on power line projects here except they are made out of wood. Generally $400 for a 4x16 foot mat, most places keep some made up for immediate purchase.

 

[4570Man]

A good sized excavator would get that out of there in no time. Mats like those shown by Ponytug would help. They are used a lot on power line projects here except they are made out of wood. Generally $400 for a 4x16 foot mat, most places keep some made up for immediate purchase.

I could probably get that out with my 40 excavator. I’ve pulled my F-750 out of some bad spots with it and the 750 is pretty helpless with open diffs and highway tires. I know for sure I could do it with my buddies 80. My 320 cat wouldn’t even pretend to work hard pulling that out.

 

[Joel/ak]

They got those mats all over out here. This is a pretty big project for the power company. I'm just surprised this company hasn't gotten with another of the other contractors to get a piece of gear in there to snag it.

Piece of gear down is money lost.

 

[Jstpssng]

I could probably get that out with my 40 excavator. I’ve pulled my F-750 out of some bad spots with it and the 750 is pretty helpless with open diffs and highway tires. I know for sure I could do it with my buddies 80. My 320 cat wouldn’t even pretend to work hard pulling that out.

The other thing about an excavator is that it can also be used to fix the damage done by the idgits.

 

[Joel/ak]

Ironically, about 50 yards behind the truck is a dry patch. They could sling a cable or chain with the skid steer and someone who knows how to drive and it and could walk it out in no time.


Inexperienced

 

[ponytug]

Ironically, about 50 yards behind the truck is a dry patch. They could sling a cable or chain with the skid steer and someone who knows how to drive and it and could walk it out in no time.


Inexperienced

Got that right! And probably trying to conceal it from others, who probably have the expertise to get the boom truck out of there...

 

[mikester]

Previous sub contractor found one of our property stakes with his right front tire.

Maintenance guys blew our phone up asking to use our road. They knew their service trick wasn't gonna get through the powerlines.
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You mean stuck like this?

 

[Joel/ak]

You mean stuck like this?
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If it would have got stuck like that, I would bought a 6 pack and popcorn and watched the show

 

[Jstpssng]

Years ago I was out cruising on a hot summer day. My dog was getting hot and I knew that I had to do something about it, when we came across a square hole in the ground just about the size of an excavator. Although it was a mix of water and peat moss she got in and started swimming around, which cooled her off nicely. I later was talking to somebody about it and he said they were delimbing trees on the woods (excavator based limber) when it dropped out of sight. At one point only the boom was showing. He said the insurance company wanted it out so badly that they were bringing the guys meals so that they wouldn't leave until it was on dry ground.

 

[Joel/ak]

They got the bucket out of the mud. Not sure how long it took. Wife left property early afternoon yesterday and they were still fighting. She went out this morning to do more wood and it was sitting on the powerlines 2 track.

 

[ponytug]

Years ago I was out cruising on a hot summer day. My dog was getting hot and I knew that I had to do something about it, when we came across a square hole in the ground just about the size of an excavator. Although it was a mix of water and peat moss she got in and started swimming around, which cooled her off nicely. I later was talking to somebody about it and he said they were delimbing trees on the woods (excavator based limber) when it dropped out of sight. At one point only the boom was showing. He said the insurance company wanted it out so badly that they were bringing the guys meals so that they wouldn't leave until it was on dry ground.

Reminds me of the lost TD24 retrieval story;

My father-in-law showed me where a Sherman tank had driven off the road during the battle of the Bulge, not knowing that both sides of the road were bogs, and sank in seconds. Seventy years later it was still a rectangular hole.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Jstpssng]

Reminds me of the lost TD24 retrieval story;

My father-in-law showed me where a Sherman tank had driven off the road during the battle of the Bulge, not knowing that both sides of the road were bogs, and sank in seconds. Seventy years later it was still a rectangular hole.

All the best,

Peter

I've watched that video several times. The first time I was amazed that it actually rolled after they removed the final drives.
In another video they showed it running.