Thin Ice Truck Recovery from 40 feet of water, Bayfield County, WI - 3/3/2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Earlier in February a truck went through Pickerel Lake in Bayfield in northern Wisconsin. Due do ice and weather conditions the recovery had to wait until today. The truck ended up in about 40 feet of water on it's side. The crews had to use airbags to aid in the recovery efforts, as the truck also sunk halfway in the muddy button. Luckily the driver was able to escape without injuries. The recovery team, along with the diving team had their work cutout for them. It was a long hard recovery for both of the teams. At the end of the day, the recovery was successful.
Shot Description
Clip 1. Shows the recovery equipment ready to do it's job.
Clips 2-4. The crew cutting the ice.
Clip 5. A diver getting ready to head into the water.
Clip 6. The diver heading into the water to hook straps to the truck.
Clip 7. The crew helping to guild the airbags into the water for the diver to pull down to hook up to the truck.
Clip 8. A different diver heading into the water.
Clip 9. The crew starting to pull the airbags and truck up.
Clip 10. The airbags breaking the surface of the water.
Clips 11-12. The crew pulling the recovery equipment, with the airbags and truck to better ice.
Clip 13. Shows part of the truck near the bottom of the ice.
Clip 14. Shows the crew has got two tires out of the water.
Clips 15-17. The crew is pulling the truck up out of the water.
Clips 18- 20. The crew pulling the recovery equipment and truck to better ice.
Clip 21. Shows the truck out of the water.
Clip 22. The crew flipping the truck back on it's four tires.
Clip 23. The truck being pulled towards the shoreline.
SID: Dirk Miller
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That is incredible. Good job, and so glad the driver got out ok!
Very impressive work!!!
wow' great job' ,,,
That’s crazy I now own this truck. I ended up buying it
Will you get it in driving condition? Make a video on what it took to do it.
Lies
Is it running yet. 🤣
Oh My Goodness ! that's insane
Thank god this happened after truck month.
That was interesting to watch. It looks like the crew has done that kind of recovery in the past with lots of practice. My wife and I visited Bayfield, WI about 10 years ago in May the weekend before Memorial Day. We really enjoyed ourselves, stayed in the Harbor's Edge Motel (the only guests), took a boat tour of the Apostle Islands and Madeline Island and made some instant friends in a bar (Rain-something?) because I took a picture of a guy's license plate on his blue Mercury Bobcat that said "NOPINTO" that was parked on the street right outside the bar. The guy came out and said that he normally charges for pictures of his car. We settled on a couple of beers and when everyone found out that we were from Alaska, we couldn't buy anymore beers. It was a friendly group of about 7 or 8 people.
Nice work 👏
What lake?
Any idea of the cost of retrival?
Looks like an expensive recovery.
I wonder how much that little evolution cost? Probably more than the truck itself. Glad to hear someone got it working again.
In 40' of water between $10,000 and $15,000. And typically that states Environmental Department will slap on another fine that can either be a flat fine, or a per day fine. Some flat fines I have seen are between $5000 and $10,000 and per days fines running from $250 to $1000 each day. If the vehicle goes through ice on a body of water regulated by the Coast Guard, they will typically hit the owner with a $10,000 to $12,000 fine. So yeah, an owner could be looking at a $40,000 bill. Plus if the owner had a loan on the vehicle, the bank is going to call in the loan, because the collateral for the loan was destroyed. If the vehicle insurance company refuses to pay for the loss because someone was stupid enough to drive on the ice, then the owner has to come up with that payoff pretty quick too.
@@micronicman I bet your right lol. This cost prob $5k that Dodge. Worth about $5k lol
Big Bucks.
Crew cab diesel heavy duty truck with a plow. Was the guy surprised 7,000 pounds on 4 points went through the ice?
Drain the oil and ash tray. She be good to go.
I'm always amazed that the lifting rig doesn't go through when supporting itself and a truck. Looks like it's of little consequence if it does with those floatie dealios off the sides.
@@Supercharged111 Those pontoon deadlines as you call them will have no problem keeping system above water.
It happens all the time in your area???
Yup
Guess it took a bit for the bump start
And then the bill comes out,,, ouch😂
Wow, wonder what that cost
Ya needed a no parking sign. 😁
Why not just leave it??
@@leoverran311 daily fines for having it in the lake.dnr doesn't want the oil gas and other crap in the lake
Floating watermark is ruining your content...duuuumb af idea.
@@NonTypicalRacing I watched it and barely even noticed it. Big deal.
@csaa1980 annoying, merely the idea of it is annoying. I'd love to see the view analytics. Duuumb af.
@@NonTypicalRacing then don’t use it on your channel.
@csaa1980 well no, I never would, that'd be dumb af, remember?
@ I know something else that is dumb af…complaining in the comments about something that probably has zero impact on the content. Cool video though.
Truck for sale... Cheap!
Why chicks live longer
Good reason Why ?,,,,,,, never drive on ice , NEVER !!!!
I hope that the insurance claim is denied !!!!
So that other people don't have there insurance rates go up to cover what stupid people Do.
I don't think anyone should be allowed to drive truck or cars on the ice
@@Boogieshoes-s9o it's stupid. All for a thrill. It's amazing how naive people are
@@northernshoreseawalls2454
I don't think these people are chasing a thrill. They're fishing or enjoying other activities.
Unfortunately, they didn't know the body of water or made some other mistake.
Great work, but is it worth the bother? The vehicle is totalled anyway unless it's unscrupulessly sold to a victimized buyer. That's even if it will ever run again.
@@joewoodchuck3824 it’s a legal requirement
Big daily fines, have to remove it. And insurance covers nothing when driving on ice, cant fix stupid.
Hazardous waste. A bunch of nasty toxins will leak out over time. Carcinogen type stuff. If you can fish it out in a couple of weeks most of junk will still be contained.
@joewoodchuck3824 no, it will get cut up and sold to collision repair shops. Most people don't really want all that fuel, oil, anti-freeze, pag oil, trans fluid, gear lube etc leeching into the water where our fish we eat, swim in. And where we swim and recreate in.
@@sundancer3700 Never knew about a legal requirement. Learned something new.
You Yanks always complain how we can’t drive here in the south. I think this is ironic because we are not crazy enough to drive onto ice no matter how thick it looks to be.
I am a "yank". I never complain about southerners, they're some of the friendliest people in the USA. In Wisconsin, we only complain about people from Illinois.
Going ice racing in a few weeks. 🧀 🇺🇸
@@MikeYurbasovich we get a lot of that from New Jersey and New York. Apparently they know how to drive a car best way and always say something if you take your time and stay at posted speed limit. Also, that extra space we like to leave behind another vehicle is somehow interpreted as a free gift for them to enter. Just for the record, there is no such thing in southern states that makes us give the other car priority in merging lanes from an entrance line on to main road.
@notyou6950 I don't get new jersey drivers here much, but I see New York plates here and have learned to avoid them, they drive like the Chicago people as well. I see them rolled over in the ditch from time to time during winter months, thinking their land rover allows them to drive 80 on icy and snowy roads.
@@notyou6950 actually, they have taken trains on the ice! A large engine weight 500,000# and that’s just the engine. It all depends on how cold it is and how long it’s been cold. And you can’t have any running water to weaken areas. Myself, I’d never take a motor vehicle on ice either, but!