Trackhoe plus dumb=

Things ain't much better in Forsyth Co! You can see his buddies trying to get him out. I wish I had gotten the pics in the daylight. There was one of those MASSIVE tow trucks, y'know, the kind with the semi cab and about a 40' bed, trying to winch him upright. It was lifting the front tires of the tow truck off the ground literally 3 feet!

BTW, this was on Peter's Creek, just below Filly's. Behind that chincy car lot, where the creek is kind of exposed. The culverts are probably 25-30' across. Why he thought it would be a good idea to drive across, I'll never know.
 

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well to me it looks like they wanted to dredge the cove, so they made a bank to drive off into it thinkin that, "since you can walk on it, its solid enough to support a few thousand pounds".... and that muck has a really good suction, so id say that another crane or maybe one of those huge big rig wreckers could maybe extract it...
 
How do we get there and how much to watch????

I would love to see that show and if i can make it what will i need to bring along besides a camera and newspaper editor?? I wish someone could bring a keg for everyone over 21 with valid ID. Charge $10 for each bottom-less blue or red cup. :beer:

Seriously,

Do you think they would mind if a bunch of us came to watch and chill and laugh?? That would be the best 4x4 meet and greet of all time.:lol:
 
DOUGHBOYDD2500HD said:
I would love to see that show and if i can make it what will i need to bring along besides a camera and newspaper editor?? I wish someone could bring a keg for everyone over 21 with valid ID. Charge $10 for each bottom-less blue or red cup. :beer:
Seriously,
Do you think they would mind if a bunch of us came to watch and chill and laugh?? That would be the best 4x4 meet and greet of all time.:lol:
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You mean you aren't the one who put it in there? Thought maybe you saw some rocks under that mud. :bounce2:


J/k
 
I hauled a john deere 200 longstick excavator (very similiar) a few months ago that they did the same thing.

retards..... sloperators suck!
 
JThomas said:
Holly Crap!! I just saw this thread. How much are you charging spectators to watch this hoe be removed? I gotta see this. And I must say I have never screwed up that bad
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YET!!!!:lol:
 
ol Jeeps- you must work in the equipment rental business. LOL

I would have begun digging deeper as to bury it b4 anyone noticed it. STOLEN!
 
Woooo I love gaston County!

It'll be interesting if the lake level rises back up before the extraction. Tack on some more fines for the EPA. Cha-ching!!!
 
did they get this thing out yet?
is anyone taking pix as progress occurs?
i'd like to see how they get it out.
what a bummer for the owner.

dawg
 
I haven't recieved any updated pics. Im gonna try and talk my friend who sent me the pics into going over there this weekend.
 
Aggressive1 said:
You mean you aren't the one who put it in there? Thought maybe you saw some rocks under that mud. :bounce2:
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:lol::lol::lol::lol:

"OHMYGODTHERESROCKSUNDERTHERE-IGOTTAGETTHEMOUT...OOHH..OHH.OOHHHSHIIITT" :flipoff2:
 
Well, its out. Heres a pic. Looks like they hooked it to the stock TJ in the background and pulled it out in 4hi. I have no idea on the extraction. I wish I had more pics/info.

I just noticed that most of the windows are busted, and there is a "United Rentals" sticker on the boom. Nice.
 

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That happened here in Greenville too recently. A man called and wanted us to clear some tree debris from the swamp between his house and the river. I said no way would we put a machine in that hole. Sooo...he rented an excavator and tried it himself...sunk it so just the windshield was visible! It took 2 excavators and a bulldozer to dig/drag him out. The machine was a total loss.
 
I'm curious as to how many of the people saying a "good" operator could get himself out even know how to run a trackhoe...
 
I do, and I didn't...
 
SkyHiK5 said:
I do, and I didn't...
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Exactly. That dude was stuck as hell.

Sounded like a lot of people who've never run heavy machinery calling the operator an idiot and all that. Sometimes good operators get crazy orders from their bosses, sometimes sheeyot happens. I'm not defending the operator but its definitely some arm-chair quarterback going on.


A while (10 years) back at the resort where I work my boss sunk a trackhoe that size in one of our snowmaking ponds. Bank collapsed while dredging it out, buried to the windows in mud. Lets just say the solution didn't begin anything like "rotate the claw 180 degrees and pull yourself out."

This year we went to do it and they got us a case CX with a 60' reach. Now that's a machine...
 
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