cumminstinkerer
addicted to making my boiler run clean
Not its not tree equipment related but thought i would share. My dad and I used to do farm drainage work together. We had all our equipment on a job about two miles from his place, we had everything lined up and parked for the weekend as it was memorial day weekend. Our case 580K was there along with two dozers and a wheel trench. Stuff is parked about a hundred yards down a county owned minimum maintenance (dirt) road and then back in the field about a hundred yards. My then BIL and I go over to get the backhoe to do some work at my house, get over there and cannot find the backhoe, there is a trail of empty pop bottles, orange marking flags and a log chain laying on the ground but no backhoe. Well I go to pissed off panic mode and we go to pull out to go give dad the news, now bear in mind this dirt road goes down hill pretty sharp about 100 yards from the field gate. As we are headed for the gate I happen to see something down the hill that catches my eyes so we go have a looksy, sure enough its our backhoe, sitting in a rather large mud hole in the road. I mean this thing is buried can't see the back tires, half the hood is in the mud. Long story short they took off down the dirt road cuz there were houses along the other road, thank god for the mud that day, took me two hours of messing around to get the thing out but I got it.