who has gotten stuck worse pics!! lets see them

[Compact1]

This thread is great!

 

[California]

Slan, with that picture it looks to me that you are in the lead for Worst Stuck.

So far.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Slan, with that picture it looks to me that you are in the lead for Worst Stuck.

So far.

Yeah. I'm going to have to change my vote.

 

[AKfish]

These are some great pics and even better stories!

Gotta say though, anybody that has to dive outta the cab while trying to shut the engine down is --- really, really STUCK!!

Great Thread.

AKfish

 

[RobertN]

Not hing of mine, but some intersting "stucks" here

Yesterday's Tractors - Stuck Tractors and Tractors in Trouble

 

[dodge man]

I work with someone that worked in a large coal strip mine. I didn't see this happen but heard the story from him. They were moving the large drag line. and decided to take a short cut. These machines move really slow, slower than you can walk, so the shortcut probably seemed like a good idea at the time. They got the thing stuck. My coworker worked as a supervisor at the mine at the time on a different shift. When he got to work that day they told him to get it out and all the equipment at the mine was available to him. Attached is a picture of a similar machine. I believe it took them over two days to get the thing out. It took several D8's and backhoes. They didn't pull it out but kept digging under the edges and putting rock under it. It doesn't move on tracks but has huge outriggers that pick the belly pan up, than drag the entire dragline forward, then it rests on the belly pan and the outriggers pick up and move forward and start the process again. The problem is the belly pan was stuck, almost by suction in the mud. When something this big gets stuck it really get stuck.

The size of these things has to be seen in person. It is the size of a large building. The bucket is big enough to park several pickup trucks in. They are all electric.

 

[stlbill]

Hi all:

Big Muskie was the largest walking dragline every created.

You can see something similar to what Dodge Man is talking about at 2:31 into this video. WARNING: Audio contains adult language.

One of the 220 yard buckets from Big Musky is on display in Southeast Ohio.


-Bill

 

[dodge man]

Stlbill, thats a much better picture. I personally saw the dragline that got stuck after the mine was shut down. It was roughly that size. They dismantled it and shipped it out west to use in another mine. I guess there wasn't a lowboy that was big enough.

 

[skidsteer.ca]

Again a little off topic but....
There is stuck.

Then there is stuck and frozen in

If you sink your atv in the swamp,go get it b4 it freezes in solid. I was hired to retrieve this one. We had to saw out of the frost with a power saw and skid it to a heated shop. Even after it was sawed out we had a hard time ripping off all the grass and brush froze in the ice cake that contained the machine.
B4 this attempt, they built a tent around it and heated it for 48+ hrs, which succeeded in melting the 1st inch down. There is a reason it takes a swamp 2 months to thaw out in the spring.
Had a hard time not laughing at the fellow, but I think his humor had seen all it could stand.
Ken

 

[stlbill]

....They dismantled it and shipped it out west to use in another mine. I guess there wasn't a lowboy that was big enough.

I am absolutely certain there is NOT a lowboy big enough to move Big Musky. When you look at these pictures, below, of them moving only the bucket you'll understand why.

(Photos courtesy of Blake Malkamaki.)

Now keep in mind the machine:

1. Lowered this bucket up to 180 feet in the ground.
2. Filled it with 220 yards of material.
3. Raised it 50-100 feet in the air.
4. Swung around and dumped it a football field away.
5. Every 60 seconds!!!

-Bill