who has gotten stuck worse pics!! lets see them

[wedge40]

Over Christmas I watched a show on the Speed channel that showed how one of these are made. The one they showed was going somewhere in Canada. They had to build a factory on site to complete the assembly. It was pretty interesting.

Wedge

 

[Dead Horse]

I would have to vote for this guy..............

 

[EddieWalker]

I wonder if that happened by going though one cycle of the tide coming in, or if it's been there for days and multiple times of having the tide come in? Not only is it in the sand, but every bit of it is full of sand. Fuel tank, hydraulic tank, the engine, drive motors and probably the pumps. If they get it out, they'll have to take it all apart to clean every part of it, then buy new parts to put it back together. Figureing labor costs, I wonder if it's better off to leave it there and take the loss of it?

Eddie

 

[Dead Horse]

Eddie,

Back 10 years ago I took pictures of an excavator that was being used to dismantle a wharf in Boston. There were the pilings and a deck built on top of them. he was out on the end of it cleaning up the last bit of rubble from the building built on it. As he was backing it up, just before the pilings transitioned to a heavy granite seawall and solid ground, the pilings gave way and he went into the water tail end first.

I was sitting in my office and quickly grabbed my camera to catch the drama. I have to give the operator a lot of credit. He stretched the boom and grapple out and used it and his tracks to claw his way back up the decking and on to solid pilings. At one point the machine was in water so deep the cooling fan and radiator were under water and the fan prolly gave him a little added thrust.

Once he got back up on the remaining pilings and decking (which were a good 10 - 12 feet above the water covered beach) he had to park it there. He had destroyed his bridge home!

The next day another grapple excavator on the job site built a bridge for him to cross with onsite rubble.

The mechanice and oiler spent the next two days on that machine going over every inch of it and replacing all fluids and filters. My guess is the operator prolly needed a change of skivvies, too!

 

[EddieWalker]

WOW, that would have been something to see!!!!

Eddie

 

[teg]

"...quickly grabbed my camera to catch the drama..." ...I'll wait for them to be posted

 

[Dead Horse]

Don't hold your breath..... paper pictures, it was not a digital..

I m not even sure where they are any more and I have no intention of getting them scanned or converted to a cd even if I did.

Just thinking about it makes me want to see if I can find them though........this thread made me remember it.

 

[EddieWalker]

I know what you mean about having print pictures. I have thousands of pictures in my photo albums that I'd love to scan into the computer one day, but absolutely dread the thought of doing it. Some would be great for my website to show some of what I've done, and others would just be nice to have on the computer. I haven't even looked in those albums in the last dozen years, and while I know where they are located, I don't have a clue of what condition they are in. Sad.

Eddie

 

[California]

This deserves a new separate thread if someone has an answer:

Are there any reasonably priced document-feeder scanners or all-in-one's that can feed a stack of traditional paper photos and output decent (not pro) scans to the pc?

Let's not clutter up this thread discussing this, but a reference pointing to a new thread, if someone has an answer, would be appreciated.

 

[patrickk123]

This is not me, but this counts as badly stuck. This Huddig backhoe sunk past the bottom of the frame and needed a big tow truck to pull it out. I don't think using the backhoe or the front bucket would have helped in this case. This is what I call stuck