Will he ever get this excavator out?
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Published 2012-07-05
All Comments (21)
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Reading the comments, I realized people in the past didn’t criticize much, rather appreciated the operator for getting it out. Those were the days 😭😭
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I was already commenting that he's not wiggling the machine with tracks when pulling with bucket, but then he got it in the end. Also if the machine moves back and forth, simply picking large rocks in front of the tracks, then pulling the machine over these and repeating this on the other side would have helped. But of course easy to comment, when not in the operator's seat. I've been in similar situations many times before, especially when cleaning/digging drainage ditches.
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This guy knows what he is doing . The tracks were clogged . Lifting them allowed him to clear them . Its very easy to criticise but unless you have operated one of these in boggy conditions it is difficult to judge. It looks like he has plate tracks which are worse than useless in mud
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That is a good opoerator who knows how to get the most out of his machine. I would say 98 out of 100 could not have gotten it out.
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Easy to say it never should have been in there, but what a pleasure to watch someone with that kind of skill: there was one way to get it out, and he did exactly what he needed to do.
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Maybe I'm speaking out of school here, but after reading the comments, why does everyone think that the operator we are watching is the person who got the excavator stuck in the first place? Also, why does everyone assume the machine was originally operated into that mud? Is it possible that the machine was left for a time on fairly solid ground and heavy rains changed the conditions? I think too many are too critical. The guy did get the machine out.
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The trick is to go deeper in until you come out the other side.
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my dad operates heavy machinery. we were adding onto the side of our trailer (yes I live in Arkansas) well he needed to dig out a huge bolder. while digging out the hole the huge rock slid back onto the bulldozer. he managed to get the bulldozer stuck! so he brought back the backhoe. he created a crater to dig out the bulldozer. then with the bucket, he hit my bedroom wall and lifted the corner of the roof. he pushed the roof back down with the bucket & beat my wall back in with a sledge hammer!
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Love how he was trying to push it with the momentum of his head, like a reverse straw that broke the camels back scenario.
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If the guy knew how to drive both tracks at the same time he would have had it out long before this
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I think the guy did a pretty good job of getting it unstuck
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Having watched other videos of excavators stuck in that type of mucky clay, this operator may not have been an extrication expert, but he eventually found a combination of maneuvers that got him out.
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I have to say, even if im not a driver of an excavator myself, that his decision is somewhat strange and very illogical, such as moving the only track that is in the air, rather than moving the one that has contact with the ground etc
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My thoughts were about how efficient the cooling system of the excavator engine must be to dissipate all that heat generated and not getting overheated. Remember that the machine is stationery with no airflow to help it cool down.
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Great job , raising it out of the suction of that clay was just the trick.
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That operator did a nice job. He didn't beat up the equipment or put himself in danger and used a slow steady approach.
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i don't care what anyone says this is good operating. i am a fair operator and i could have gotten it out. it may have taken 20 years though. this guy knows how to operate well!
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I have been driving diggers and bulldozers for 40 plus years, and thats not the way I would have done it, try pushing the mud away from the machine, dig down a little in the direction you want to go to get out, then pull yourself out without lifting your tracks and without forceing mud up into the engine bay or damaging the back panels, the machine will walk out if you keep the amount of mud away so it doesn't have to push the mud as well......
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I'm a excavator operator but never went in a situation like that b4 so respect to u that's what u do most of the time u try to see if u can suspend and spin out the track and then you try to hook with your bucket pull and drive at the same time
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@4:56 the owner yells, YOU ROCK! 👊😎
