skidder-bog hole

[Timberjackboy]

Anyone ever heard of loseing a skidder in a bog hole? Down on an area where we cut there was rumored to be a hole where a fella lost a team of horeses in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we were very careful

 

[Newfie]

I was in a Bradley as it got swallowed by a spooge pit. Had to jump to get to the waist deep mud.

 

[Ryan Willock]

Down on the coast where they have swamps and swamp logging they have crews that specialize in skidder recovery for that reason.

 

[cybergeek23851]

Yeah one of the guys that was in my welding class this past year back home drives a skidder with the logging/tree hack firm that he works for. But one day he was just outside of town on the job and ended up getting the skidder stuck up to the axles in swamp muck, but nothing that serious.

 

[JJackson]

I have heard of a few pieces of machinery sinking, one was a big john deere skidder doing scarification, it took a escavator to get it out. Also in the same area an escavator working along some transmission lines also sunk, the guy said he had trouble even when trying to use the boom to get out. Also a big dozer nearly sunk while building roads on a forest reserve with many springs on it. Would not dought that in New Brunswick that there're skidder bog holes that could do that, we have sunk a few atv's and had a hard enough time retrieving them.

 

[BlackSmith]

nothing we can't handle...

 

[Timberjackboy]

big buggy

Whats that thing mounte don tractor tires? They are too narrow to be skidder tires? I bet shed be good in the snow.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'd like to work the subwoofers into it!

 

[wiley_p]

While working with some guys in interior AK we lost a D-8 thru the overflow into some nice bog in the spring, the cat was unretreiveable by evening.

 

[geofore]

save cat

We saved a D9 by cutting logs about 5' wider than the machine and cabling them across the tracks, start the machine run the logs under, shut off, then attach more logs, run them under until the logs came out under the back of the machine. Unclamp the cables and carry the logs around to the front and attach them again. Took all day but the machine walked out on the logs. Man was that muddy, cold and wet. Do not leave the machine run it will vibrate itself in up to the seat. Found that out when the assend went in up to the seat just from idleing.

 

[Nickrosis]

A D9? I suppose something that weighs 80,000 lbs. sinks like 80,000 lbs.

 

[P_woozel]

For sure, a D-8 weighs inn at just under 26 ton thats wth every other pad off, no ripper, no blade, ram, fuel tank or cab. When it comes off the C-130 it causes the fuselage to ripple.:alien:

 

[a_lopa]

im looking at a cat 20tonne excavator at the moment insurance write off operator was edging around a dam and lost it in it,70k machine might get it for 8k mud slime included

 

[Yellowdog]

Re: save cat

Originally posted by geofore
We saved a D9 by cutting logs about 5' wider than the machine and cabling them across the tracks, start the machine run

Around here, if you get a dozer stuck you hire a bigger dozer.

what do you do when you stick a d9? D10's and 11's aren't usually at the rental yard!

 

[Yellowdog]

check this out

 

[Timberjackboy]

Looks like they got into a lake!!!!!! Howed you boys get that out??? Jumpins. Down in areas where they are wokren in swamps and water they have escavators with large inflatble things around the tracks and they can float.