One stuck hoe

[Anonymous Poster]

You know, poking around on the site got me to thinking about some photos I had of a Cat 320 we almost lost. This mud had no bottom in sight. The laborers were sinking 20 ft fence posts by hand for the "super silt fence", so I guess we should have thought twice about sending the hoe out there?

 

[Anonymous Poster]

This was at about 1600. She went in around 1300. There were a lot of nervous people milling around as we waited for the crane mats, retrieval crew, light towers, etc.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

She stayed running the whole time. Thankfully Cranemasters was around the area so they sent a crew over and hooked her up to what I believe was a 955 track loader.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

We sent the operator back in with a pair of hip waders on. He worked the stick while the track loader tugged her out. It was about 2130 by the time we got it out! A few thousand dollars in electronics and a good pressure washing and she was back in action. Never did smell quite the same though!

All told this little exercise cost us about $15K. Not bad when you consider the machine cost about $250K and it only had about 600 hrs on it at the time.

 

[MossRoad]

Man, what a mess!

 

[ScottAR]

All I can say is that it could have been worse.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[MossRoad]

Modern Art!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I saw that one last night, that's what reminded me about our debacle!

 

[ScottAR]

I have a few more... not as funny as that... Here's a Komatsu in the same situation...

 

[ScottAR]

Komatsus must like to swim or somthing...