Brings back a bad memory of getting stuck in a muskeg 'sippy hole' while working for my dad years ago in SE Alaska near Ketchikan, AK. We had rented a Hitachi UH181 with a winch on the boom for short yarding in combinaton with shovel logging and loading log trucks. Anyway, the shovel had no belly plate (came to us that way) so it should not have been taken off-road but it was too tempting. Took us two days to dig all of the clay and mud out of the belly of the beast. Had to do it twice and replace all hydraulic hoses twice! Very humbling experience! Great video!
Shit happens sometimes. Shit can go bad quick when working on soft ground I've seen skidders stuck , d8 bull dozers drownedd in beach restorations jobs , tractors stuck in farm fields all by good operators. The key thing is to stop trying to get yourself out and just make it worse
If this seems bad, look at what Seattle had to go through. The tunnel boring machine they were using broke down deep under the downtown Seattle waterfront. They had to create a giant access hole just to bring it to the surface to make repairs. $300 million dollars and two years later, it was fixed, and finally could continue on from the spot in which it broke.
You guys just couldn’t wait . I just pulled out my friend Al , he stuck his brand new Deere300 . Should of never ever been near that spot. That is a ROOKIE Move..straight up thrashing a machine
I work for a CAT dealer doing inspections and preps on the rental equipment. We have to do the inspections withing 48 hours of the customer returning the machine so that if we find damage done from stuff like this. The coustomer then has to foot the bill. So when we had a week where I was busy fixing a coolant leak on a roller a lot of customers got away with a lot of shit.
Nice job guys that wasn't easy but an that dozer looks screwed lol I got faith y'all will get it. An yes I know this vid is damn near ten years old but oh well
A man's got to know his limitations and his machines limitations as well ! It's HEAVY ,and it WILL SINK ! But that operator could have pulled some brush and trees up to the tracks then using the bucket , dragged them up to the tracks and crab walked it up on them , making his way out !
I remeber some documentary about WWII: "Tiger instruction manual: If you want to know is your Tiger tank won`t sunken walk onto the ground get your fellow on your back and than stand on one foot. If you won`t sunk with a person on your back and being on one foot then your tank won`t sunk as well"
Comment,: Just for the record how big is the equipment that you used in part 2. What is the displacement of the engines ? Do you think a Cat 345 would have worked? I remember driving a 345 ? at the Cat proving grounds ( in those days, Cat would let workers go out and experience driving vehicles). Someone in the group buried a D6 in the mud, not water, and the young cooridnator came over and took the 345 Excavator which I was driving. He then went and put the bucket over the D6 and picked it up out of the mud, not water.. Oh! I was driving a 130 (close) Motor Grader (no steering wheel), and that was an esperience.
that thing can pull itself out..that operator is panic. i watch something like this an unexperiece operator. my uncle got in and operated out of the mud..dont rent it if you have no skills.
How do you know? Eh? Eh? How Mr Smarty Pants ? 😜 Hello from Nakina Ontario Canada and hope all is well as can be during these times. And sorry , I just *HAD* to *!!!*
Operator , Operator, Operator...I bet he did JUST what the land owner told him to do... Its ok just a little wet, i just had a bozer in there yesterday before the rain.. Nice job getting out,thank god for Joe Penley Matts, Beaumont Texas, See Ya
This is a common occurrence witg tracked logging equipment out here in the swamps of Eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. There are a few machines that lay where they fell, all you can see is the tip of the boom sticking out of the ground.
Well my first impression is that this jobsite should be set up with wellpoint pumps, dried up enough to work it to start with, there is no bottom to this ground.
I worked at a gravel pit a few years ago and the cat equipment worked all day day in day out without fail. Occasionally they would bring in a hiatachi loader in to try it out and it usually would not make it 3 days before breaking down
Great recovery! Still can't figure out why man is so silly to take something so heavy out into the mud without testing the area first. Would have saved time, machine and money.
+passtimer vascularity of the soil! You can track out on what seems like a fairly stable underfoot conditions and a few minutes later the machine will start pumping the ground and bring the water up to the surface.
Exactly. Sometimes you only get a few passes before it turns to pudding. But it usually doesn't turn out that way, and the man's got a job to do. No one gets praise for being the most timid operator.
@@stipcrane But GREAT operators get heaps of praise and a GREAT operator would have assessed the risk and put things in place so as not to get stuck. Being reckless and getting on with a job are 2 entirely different things.
Kids "Dad" Howes is here to help you with your Excavator needs. The next you get your dad's Excavator stuck. Remember this video. Often, there's no need to panic. This holds true for adults too.
ignorant...ignorant comments about CAT having the worst ground pressure. It has nothing to do with the name on the side of the excavator. Simple calculation: weight of machine divided by square track inches touching the ground. A Hitachi 200, volvo 220 to name a couple are the "same" size machines as a CAT 320, the weights of all 3 are within a few hundred pounds. It's all about how wide and how long your tracks are. If you look at the brochures CAT has a bigger undercarraige than bith of those machines. Don't say shit when you don't know what your talking about
The statistics are admiral. It has NOTHING to do with driving a hunk of iron into a swamp. Even a 10 yr old kid knows better than that! Massive tracks can STILL work into the mire while working the bucket. The operator/owner ( If you could fire the owner of the operation. LOL) should have been fired on the spot!
Skids are a necessity when dealing with swamp mud... It is well worth the little extra effort that it takes to haul them around on jobsites, But you'll be happy you did at the end of the day when you saved yourself thousands of dollars
I cant figure out WHY someone didnt notice a problem way ahead of where the video started. The fact that they continued to work it makes me wonder if they even cared since it was a rental
I have never operated any machinery so please correct my ignorance. since he has a bucket could he of not moved some mud / product to build an island or landscape to drive onto? or would it just displace and make the problem worse? Not bury himself but try to build up the land mass and get out?
Mike Hunt probably the best to get out should be to take off all trees and organic soil around him to build a floating bridge. Just dig around him will bring the situation worst... That bring water, move any hard soil by moving over and diluted it... Once you're stuck, trust me, this is the last thing you want to softing the area!
Makes sense.. when you dig out it creates a vacuum. like getting a boot stuck in mud. I meant to dig out solid ground around it and put it in front.. not the wet saturated stuff.
Mike Hunt in this case, the really best was a bridge with all trees available... They had time to wait a second excavator, but it's not always the case... Not really in a budget perspective, just not to let the excavator stuck deeper by his proper weight... When you destroy all the surrounding to try to escape, it's not rare that soil won't support anymore...
I don't know where the giant skid like platform came from but that sure looked like the only salvation with the help of the other machine and operator.
Lucky that the local or state conservation office did not show up wile this was going on. Clearly they are working within wetlands, wonder if they had a Army Corp permit for disturbing wetlands, not to mention an NPDES permit
reminds me of when i was a kid. frisbee stuck in the tree, throw a ball to rescue the frisbee and the ball stuck too, so had to wait for dad to get home to rescue both bc mom wouldn't let me climb the tree.
Ground probably looked fine until they took a machine on to it. Like the man said, sometimes it's just too wet, but sometimes you don't realise until it's too late. Then, the more you struggle, the wetter it gets. You've made a hole and water flows downhill!
I've made a damn good living for 20 years walking machines across bottomless ground. It won't take but a Time or two of dragging some 1 inch cable and having to dig the track frame out by hand to hook it
My back neighbor operates a 8T and companies quote jobs cheaper based on him being their operator, if they can't lock him in for the contract they are quoting they have to allow a fairly substantial margin for other operators time/errors. I got him over to do some work one weekend and it was a beautiful thing to watch him work, not a wasted movement, hits level by eye from the cab, just at 1 with the machine. I've seen many good operators over a number of machine types but I've only ever seen 2 fantastic operates and that is my neighbor and a bobcat operator many years ago who was the same with his machine.
I got a 963 Caterpillar track loader stuck while cleaning out a pond once ! I have been operating heavy machinery for 30 years! All it takes is one mistake!
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Brings back a bad memory of getting stuck in a muskeg 'sippy hole' while working for my dad years ago in SE Alaska near Ketchikan, AK. We had rented a Hitachi UH181 with a winch on the boom for short yarding in combinaton with shovel logging and loading log trucks. Anyway, the shovel had no belly plate (came to us that way) so it should not have been taken off-road but it was too tempting. Took us two days to dig all of the clay and mud out of the belly of the beast. Had to do it twice and replace all hydraulic hoses twice! Very humbling experience! Great video!
Thanks for sharing and thanks for having "real" noises as sound track instead of being like the other videos.
I am happy for the massive supply of video showing people who don't understand the standing water part is the part to avoid.
Just because you wear a pair of jeans, and a ball cap doesn't mean you can operate large equipment.
Challenge accepted. Lol!
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@@iamric23 Actually they do, this is where they get their power!
Tell that to 99% of heavy equipment operators lmao.
Should retitle this..." Morons using equipment they don't understand..." Geez...🤦♂️
Shit happens sometimes. Shit can go bad quick when working on soft ground I've seen skidders stuck , d8 bull dozers drownedd in beach restorations jobs , tractors stuck in farm fields all by good operators. The key thing is to stop trying to get yourself out and just make it worse
Isn't it sweet to see this huge wild beasts helping each other out? There's love in that relationship! Could almost shed a tear...
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Weird philosophy. Fact is, it cost the owner of the company money (unnecessarily) because of an inexperienced heavy equipment operator..
If this seems bad, look at what Seattle had to go through. The tunnel boring machine they were using broke down deep under the downtown Seattle waterfront. They had to create a giant access hole just to bring it to the surface to make repairs. $300 million dollars and two years later, it was fixed, and finally could continue on from the spot in which it broke.
Very good operator that's for sure!! It could have been a lot worse if it wasn't for quick thinking to obtain a second Machine !! Nice Job!!
Perfect example of lack of experience, it doesn't take much to turn wet ground into soup.
You guys just couldn’t wait . I just pulled out my friend Al , he stuck his brand new Deere300 . Should of never ever been near that spot. That is a ROOKIE Move..straight up thrashing a machine
Tracks don’t go where the cattails grow!!
LOL ohhhhhhhh no!! Why was I watching this like it was a cute transformer moment where the mommy came to help the baby LMBOOOO.
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I'm just a TH-cam commenter not a excavator operator but I thought you were supposed to dig the hole with the bucket?
Lmao 😂
I work for a CAT dealer doing inspections and preps on the rental equipment. We have to do the inspections withing 48 hours of the customer returning the machine so that if we find damage done from stuff like this. The coustomer then has to foot the bill. So when we had a week where I was busy fixing a coolant leak on a roller a lot of customers got away with a lot of shit.
Need to rent some operators to go with the machines.
If only we humans could get along like these peaceful machines.
Drive it like you rented it!
Aww it's so cute, watching the big excavator help it's little friend.
When handled properly, An excavator is a beautiful thing!
-Daddy, how did that excavator get buried ?
-I don't know son, I have a brain
The operator is very good Works great And fabulous form in a hard condition...
Its amazing to see how versatile these CAT's are !
All the machine really needed was an operator
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I thought the same thing
Nice job guys that wasn't easy but an that dozer looks screwed lol I got faith y'all will get it. An yes I know this vid is damn near ten years old but oh well
I cannot even explain how painful that was to watch. The swamp gives you resources to keep this from happening at all.
A man's got to know his limitations and his machines limitations as well ! It's HEAVY ,and it WILL SINK ! But that operator could have pulled some brush and trees up to the tracks then using the bucket , dragged them up to the tracks and crab walked it up on them , making his way out !
Famous last words " I don't know the ground looks pretty solid to me "
Silly he was in there, but they both have a fine touch at the controls. Armchair critics aside that's a heck of a recovery.
Reminds me of working at the post office. Just when you think they have hit rock bottom, they keep digging.
I remeber some documentary about WWII: "Tiger instruction manual: If you want to know is your Tiger tank won`t sunken walk onto the ground get your fellow on your back and than stand on one foot. If you won`t sunk with a person on your back and being on one foot then your tank won`t sunk as well"
Stupid is as stupid does. Enough said.
KEEP THE VIDEOS COMING BROTHER?? Love it
I could almost hear David Attenborough commentating about the excavator mating ritual. 🤣
All due to global warming?
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Wow....... Can't believe you had another machine to get that out !!
Amazing these guys are worth their weight in gold do you know what a excavator cost if-lost or cant be retrieved
Comment,: Just for the record how big is the equipment that you used in part 2. What is the displacement of the engines ? Do you think a Cat 345 would have worked? I remember driving a 345 ? at the Cat proving grounds ( in those days, Cat would let workers go out and experience driving vehicles). Someone in the group buried a D6 in the mud, not water, and the young cooridnator came over and took the 345 Excavator which I was driving. He then went and put the bucket over the D6 and picked it up out of the mud, not water.. Oh! I was driving a 130 (close) Motor Grader (no steering wheel), and that was an esperience.
no man, you didn't need a second excavator to move to some planks around.
You're why I'm glad I work in the main shop and not the rental shop. =P
that thing can pull itself out..that operator is panic. i watch something like this an unexperiece operator. my uncle got in and operated out of the mud..dont rent it if you have no skills.
Good job boys and you didnt break nothing.....you spent 4k but oh well lol
should of rented some operators too
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Just because it has tracks DOES NOT mean it can go anywhere....Ask me how I know 😁😁
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How Mr Smarty Pants ? 😜
Hello from Nakina Ontario Canada and hope all is well as can be during these times.
And sorry , I just *HAD* to *!!!*
YT video of power washing that muddy mess. Would bring him another million views! LOL 😂
Is there any need to wonder why rental companies charge so much??
Insurance is usually required on machines of this size. They ain't gonna pay for anything...you are. :)
to bad abused and broken are 2 different things
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ironfist452 but what leads to something being broken? 90 percent of the time its abuse. whether it was then or over time
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Operator , Operator, Operator...I bet he did JUST what the land owner told him to do... Its ok just a little wet, i just had a bozer in there yesterday before the rain.. Nice job getting out,thank god for Joe Penley Matts, Beaumont Texas, See Ya
This is why we can’t have nice things...
This is a common occurrence witg tracked logging equipment out here in the swamps of Eastern North Carolina and South Carolina. There are a few machines that lay where they fell, all you can see is the tip of the boom sticking out of the ground.
Shouldve just kept spinning in circles and he couldve helicoptered outta that mess
would a big truck wrecker be cheaper. or 4 or 5 chains or cables and just pull the thing out ?
Well my first impression is that this jobsite should be set up with wellpoint pumps, dried up enough to work it to start with, there is no bottom to this ground.
I worked at a gravel pit a few years ago and the cat equipment worked all day day in day out without fail. Occasionally they would bring in a hiatachi loader in to try it out and it usually would not make it 3 days before breaking down
Pretty sweet bounty hole, just missing the girls and the beer!
that stream is like quicksand. Was he trying to clear a blockage or was it a pond instead of a steam?
Great recovery! Still can't figure out why man is so silly to take something so heavy out into the mud without testing the area first. Would have saved time, machine and money.
+passtimer vascularity of the soil! You can track out on what seems like a fairly stable underfoot conditions and a few minutes later the machine will start pumping the ground and bring the water up to the surface.
Exactly. Sometimes you only get a few passes before it turns to pudding. But it usually doesn't turn out that way, and the man's got a job to do. No one gets praise for being the most timid operator.
@@stipcrane But GREAT operators get heaps of praise and a GREAT operator would have assessed the risk and put things in place so as not to get stuck. Being reckless and getting on with a job are 2 entirely different things.
Wrong equipment to start with.
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Kids "Dad" Howes is here to help you with your Excavator needs. The next you get your dad's Excavator stuck. Remember this video. Often, there's no need to panic. This holds true for adults too.
ignorant...ignorant comments about CAT having the worst ground pressure. It has nothing to do with the name on the side of the excavator. Simple calculation: weight of machine divided by square track inches touching the ground. A Hitachi 200, volvo 220 to name a couple are the "same" size machines as a CAT 320, the weights of all 3 are within a few hundred pounds. It's all about how wide and how long your tracks are. If you look at the brochures CAT has a bigger undercarraige than bith of those machines. Don't say shit when you don't know what your talking about
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The statistics are admiral. It has NOTHING to do with driving a hunk of iron into a swamp. Even a 10 yr old kid knows better than that! Massive tracks can STILL work into the mire while working the bucket. The operator/owner ( If you could fire the owner of the operation. LOL) should have been fired on the spot!
Skids are a necessity when dealing with swamp mud... It is well worth the little extra effort that it takes to haul them around on jobsites, But you'll be happy you did at the end of the day when you saved yourself thousands of dollars
THIS is what i call a real bonified CAT trap😂
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"ain't gonna hurt nuttin". . . . It wouldn't have got stuck like that if it had been his.
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Bet that was a Nice bill for the cleaning charge👌
some people assume that because the machine is so big and powerful, that it can go anywhere... this is the result
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The bigger they are the harder they fall....remember that
I have nothing like this but this is why I never let out my equipment
Like you have any...
And they lived happily after..
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well done on the escape from the swamp
I cant figure out WHY someone didnt notice a problem way ahead of where the video started. The fact that they continued to work it makes me wonder if they even cared since it was a rental
Nice video today💪😍
When you wish you opted for the roadside assistance plan
Very funny got stacked on a fresh land lmoa 😅never seen that in my 5 years of operating in the mines
Why did he go in there in the first place? Always know your equipment and work area!! Commences lacking?
WTF are you saying, or trying to say? Is "Commences" how inbreds say "common sense"? Always know your language!
He said that like a true moron.
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I have never operated any machinery so please correct my ignorance. since he has a bucket could he of not moved some mud / product to build an island or landscape to drive onto? or would it just displace and make the problem worse? Not bury himself but try to build up the land mass and get out?
Mike Hunt probably the best to get out should be to take off all trees and organic soil around him to build a floating bridge. Just dig around him will bring the situation worst... That bring water, move any hard soil by moving over and diluted it... Once you're stuck, trust me, this is the last thing you want to softing the area!
Makes sense.. when you dig out it creates a vacuum. like getting a boot stuck in mud. I meant to dig out solid ground around it and put it in front.. not the wet saturated stuff.
Mike Hunt In this way, you're right! Take all the dry available to create an exit path!
Or.. take the bunch of product they moved and put it in front to use to build a bridge? Again i am no operator.
Mike Hunt in this case, the really best was a bridge with all trees available... They had time to wait a second excavator, but it's not always the case... Not really in a budget perspective, just not to let the excavator stuck deeper by his proper weight... When you destroy all the surrounding to try to escape, it's not rare that soil won't support anymore...
They look real bright !!!
I don't know where the giant skid like platform came from but that sure looked like the only salvation with the help of the other machine and operator.
You think they'll get charged the £15 cleaning charge?
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oh yes cleaning charge and for damage (":
cleaning fee is $900 USD lol
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Lucky that the local or state conservation office did not show up wile this was going on. Clearly they are working within wetlands, wonder if they had a Army Corp permit for disturbing wetlands, not to mention an NPDES permit
That may not be protected wetlands. They maybe a old pond they are clearing next to.
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He should have used the mats in the beginning.
He should have used the brush for mats?
he didn't know, too stupid foreign workers
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reminds me of when i was a kid. frisbee stuck in the tree, throw a ball to rescue the frisbee and the ball stuck too, so had to wait for dad to get home to rescue both bc mom wouldn't let me climb the tree.
I'm still figuring out what the hell they were down there doing in the first place.
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Probably pipeline
Holy shit, I thought you were kidding about the 'dozer.
I've been there and back when I was a rookie nothing like a good embarrassment on the job site
Playing in muddy puddles when you're supposed to be working very naughty boys
such is life, got stuck, get unstuck, move on. Just a Moment in Time that they all can chuckle about later.
Thank you for this picture, that was very moving, that escivater helping escaping the swamp, The white house could learn how love WORKS, thanks.
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Ground probably looked fine until they took a machine on to it. Like the man said, sometimes it's just too wet, but sometimes you don't realise until it's too late. Then, the more you struggle, the wetter it gets. You've made a hole and water flows downhill!
amazing how many heavy equipment operators think they can float on mud.
Put enough wood under them they float...
I've made a damn good living for 20 years walking machines across bottomless ground. It won't take but a Time or two of dragging some 1 inch cable and having to dig the track frame out by hand to hook it
@@jamescarter1500 you even big enough pack 1" line? LOL
I heard that if you go really fast it won't get stuck in the mud 👍🏻
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That's why catepiller is strong power full machine I like caterpillar.
it's called HEAVY equipment for a reason
Not only does this guy NOT get his $40.00 deposit back, but the rental company charged an additional $60.00 CLEANING FEE. Go Figure??? LOL.
Some of these drivers can thread needles with these huge machines.
Matt P like anything. Example I can knock over a 50 cent coin without touching the ground..it's easy its like riding a bike operating a digga
And then some of them drive off into a pond. Not that I'm judging, this dude probably has much better skills that I have.
My back neighbor operates a 8T and companies quote jobs cheaper based on him being their operator, if they can't lock him in for the contract they are quoting they have to allow a fairly substantial margin for other operators time/errors. I got him over to do some work one weekend and it was a beautiful thing to watch him work, not a wasted movement, hits level by eye from the cab, just at 1 with the machine. I've seen many good operators over a number of machine types but I've only ever seen 2 fantastic operates and that is my neighbor and a bobcat operator many years ago who was the same with his machine.
Geo Thomas ....ive seen one or two that run machinery like their pointing their finger...just GOOD!....others who think they can..
God Bless Them..
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I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.... BTW, did they get their deposit back.....never mind!
always always always get the insurance!!!
working environment is muddy, fuggy but skilled driver!
"ain't gonna hurt nuttin'"
It is experiences like this that makes an experienced operator! Now he has his college degree!
Major lack,of experience this proves what lying on a job app or a resume can do. Poor piece of equipment
I got a 963 Caterpillar track loader stuck while cleaning out a pond once ! I have been operating heavy machinery for 30 years! All it takes is one mistake!
1 owner, gently used by professionals.
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How much for rental time in the "playtime in the mud"?
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