CAT stuck in the MUD!! 😳
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2024
- Talk about a Monday!!! After a call from A-Aron about our Terrex articulating truck breaking in half, I discover our new CAT D6 has gotten stuck in the mud. Epic fail for sure! After using the Hyundai excavator to dig from around the tracks we use the big Komatsu excavator to pull the dozer free. Unfortunately not before the BIG BOSS (my Dad) shows up and discovers our screw up!
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Your response to those situations was a breath of fresh air.
Most bosses would just scream and shout or fire someone.
Fine if it was deliberate but not if it was an accident.
"Before you judge me, make sure you're perfect"
Best advice from one of the best bosses I ever had
Hope you didn't get yelled at too much, Mr Digg 👍
I love that saying you just mentioned!!
I must say you're a good boss and understands that sometimes shit happens! What I would give to work for people like yall!
Hey buddy, I sure appreciate this!
My buddy has a sign in his shop "Its all about attitude pick a good one " Seems like you got that part of Life
I’m trying!
Needs a New diaper
@@dennisholst4322- WTF?????😂🤣🤷🏻♂️
Ernie won't let you down
A day without Mr Digg is like a day without sunshine.
I worked at Fresh Kills Landfill for 28 years. We had over one hundred dozers, plus compactors, off Highway Trucks, Payhaulers, Traxcavators, Scrapers,, 992 and 966 Loaders, and other equipment working 24/7, 365. One thing for sure, #%%#* happens. We had mahines cath fire, and burn to a crisp. I have many pictures of me and other people getting stuck. One thing that used to happen was leachate pooling undergound in covered areas. The ground on top would be bone dry, but lurking only a couple of feet below would be quicksand. You could walk in the area, drive a pickup truck or Swamp Cat on it, no problem. But, a D9 Dozer or loaded dump truck, would sink like a stone. I ended up having to build temporary access roads, out of "road material" (demolition debris) and large stone (from our Rock Crusher).
That material that your operator got stuck in is especially treacherous. It is a clay that when only marginally wet, turns into this semi dry goop, that sticks to you growsers, killing their effectiveness. We had a contractor bringing in hundreds of truckloads of the stuff. After getting stuck a couple of times, I was able to convince our dirt inspector supervisor, to make the contractor A. Mix it with regular soil or B. Let it set until it thoroughly dries, Their choice. At peek, we had 360 Tractor Operators and Over 1000 support staff (administrators, welders, mechanics, plumbers, carpinters, electricians, carpenters, iron workers, tin smiths, machinists, ladscape architects, and surveyors.)
Wow, that sounds like quite the operation! Thanks for sharing it with us, have a great day buddy!
As long as everyone went home the same way they came to work, it was a great day, no matter what happens.
Great point! Thanks so much for watching!
Great day?? You must not own equipment. Lost down time, added expense and equipment breakage. Not a great day. Piss poor day.
@KA-om9oz actually I do own equipment. Anytime my truck or trailer it's not fun. But everyday you wake up healthy is a great day. So equipment breaks, big whoop. Someone get hurt, lose of a digit or limb or dies is a bad day. If everyone goes home the same way they came to work after working around heavy equipment, then that's a great day.
@@grumpyscout4745 nobody who owns a company says… big whoop.. when employees tear shit up. Hahaha. You sound like my Grandma, she never worked a outside job in her life
@KA-om9oz well you take yourself way to serious. Stuff breaks when you use it. It's all part of owning equipment. And if ypur more worried about equipment over the health and wellbeing of your employees, then you sound like an arrogant prick I'd never want to work for. And I've worked in construction since about the time that I could walk. And I've been responsible for 10s of millions of dollars of equipment that my life depended on and responsible for 12 other guys while conducting combat operations. So yeah it's a big whoop if equipment breaks as long as my guys came back un hurt and alive at the end of the day. And nothing that happened in that video is any big deal as long as no one got hurt. Shit just happens some days.
Been there sir, buried at 245 Cat in about the same stuff. Started sinking and nothing you could do. Big thing is, no one got hurt but their pride and everyone can laugh about it afterwards. Thanks for your time in getting these videos to us sir.
It’s some snotty stuff aint it!!??? I sure appreciate you watching our videos friend!! 🍻
Yeah...that s**t is like pudding....Bone dry but zero cohesion....
Only thing hurt is some pride, the machine looks to be in same working order as it was before it happened only a bath is needed to get most that off. yea $ was lost in work but machine is still good and everyone is no worse for wear.
I Loved the 245 CAT excavator. They were an excellent design by CAT for their day. That track drive system with the stick in the middle was so much ahead of the old school system that had the little switch on the side of the seat for track drives 😊
We really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, its comments like these that make it worthwhile! Thanks!!!
Don't feel BAD 😊 I was pushing mud with a CASE (450) wide track low GP Dozer. It was a mainline sewer job in very very muddy ground. 😊 I guess they wanted the NEW guy just Dispatched out of union hall, to see me work. There was piles of mud around the deep sewer ditch. I started pushing everything was going fine then, "O" no it sunk up to engine plate. As I started to back up, it just sunk deeper. We got a ( JD -555) front loader from across town. This was Aberdeen WA. And if anyone knows that area, it RAINS constantly 😊 I would Dry my rain gear in the stove each night in my hotel room. Anyway we hooked up chains to back of dozer. Thank gosh it had great big ring hooks on back. The loader operator pulled me and I ran dozer in reverse. We got her out of the mud. What happened was got too close to the soft spots on the side of the mainline sewers. The supervisor told use to STOP using the wide track. He would come up with another idea. How we finally smooth out the piles of mud was put a Bucyrus Erie dragline on big wooden boards. And Dragline the extra mud to smooth out the terrible ground conditions 😊😊 the mainline crews were finding historical bottles in the ditch as they dug the ULIT sewer replacement. We had 4 crews working on the streets this was the mid 1970s the city was also digging around the main water supply line for the city. Putting NEW Steele bands on a huge 36 wide water main. The city was doing all their main sewer and water replaced and overhaul maintenance. I mainly was a runner, doing different jobs with a CASE (580-C) you had to engage the differential LOCK to just make the Backhoe drive. Most of the time I was using the backhoe so I did not travel in forward or reverse much. It was my first big dispatch out of union hall. I wanted to make more money running equipment. My uncle was only paying me $5 and hour and no medical insurance. The union was paying $13,84 at the time so I switched. The A list guys had not all come back from the Alaska Pipeline Job, so there was a need for guys and gals if you went to union hall for work. I stayed busy on different mainline sewer jobs till all the A list guys came back home from Alaska. Then I started working for a water utility that when I stayed doing that work. Installing new water service. Repair of leaky mains. I ended my working days manager of a small water Department.
Had 750 service accounts. Mix of retirement multi level apartments and single family residents. We had a quarter of a million gallons storage tank plus a connection with the next water district off a 24" supply line. I did everything as a manager from reading meters to reports to the commissioner at the monthly meeting.
Awesome story thank you for sharing!
Some days things happen. I like way you handled it and how carefull everyone was. And as far as dads. Mine always showed up. One look his eye showed it all. Never lost his cool but his message came across loud and clear
They always show up don’t they? Thanks for watching. I appreciate you.
You know that the way you do your video makes you so much like the way life is really like, thanks and congratulations!
Thank you so much 😀
First time I have seen a dozer stuck in peanut butter. Great video.
lol, great explanation! 😂
Found your channel through lets dig 18 love the content!
Glad LD sent you over & I sure appreciate this comment!
My father worked at coal prep plant. An operator was pushing a pile of coal and basically the only thing you could see was the blade pointed straight up in the air. They got him dug out.
Whoa! Glad they got him out!!
Man that brought back some memories of when I used to work for my dad on his farm. He had the same dad thing that when something went wrong he would happen to show up
They just know, dont they?!
Half a dozen guys standing around, nobody bothered to grab a flat shovel and start cleaning out the tracks before everything dried up
Certainly is a lot of standing around happening. Guy with the cleanest shirt doing the most complaining too.
We have the same kind of quagmire in Virginia, out on 4 wheeling trails around Quantico you would see Truck grave holes where a truck would have the QUAG liquify under it and just sink...I saw a bulldozer sink in the QUAG on a job site in Arlington, va ... If I remember correctly, they just buried the dozer and moved on...
That sounds like some nasty stuff!
@@TheRealMrDiGG just like that shit in this video, sticky boot sucking quagmire, lol
Another awesome video, Mr. Digg and hey man things like that happen and like you said nobody got hurt and the machines not hurt so just wash it off and go back to work and we’ll see you on the next one my friend
Thanks 👍
Seeing your dozer operator smiling while he tells you the “bad news” tells me your crew has the confidence they’re not going to have a strip torn off them because they had a “screw up” moment. Now that’s a sign of a good boss. Not many of them around! Unfortunately it doesn’t sound like that applies to the “big boss”.
The big boss isn’t as forgiving as I am, but he’s still a great guy
@@TheRealMrDiGG It would seem that way at the very end. I discovered your channel after Let’sdig 18 toured your operation. We appreciate the time you spent with them showing us around. Dang, you have a lot of irons in those fires there! Looks like a great operation. Subbed.
Bad days happen, but it sure is nice to see a good attitude about it. Certainly makes for a great video if nothing else.
Thanks for watching!
wow that came out way easier than i thought. Great job guys
Wasn’t too bad, thanks for watching!
Be like a cat to dig a hole in the litter box to bury something then realize it's them being buried.
😂 good point
That cat came out better than i thought it would
Not too bad
that komatsu pulled it out with ease
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boy you have a great attitude ,if you can get trough days like this with a smile on your face koodos to you i would have lost it😱🤬, and i like the one about just put it in the hole , that what she said the other night🤣😂, great video thanks for sharing👍👍👍👍👍
lol, love me some “thats what she said” jokes!
Happy I found your channel threw let’s dig 18 love the content man 👍
We’re happy you found us too, thank you so much for watching!
So did I my brother
😂 got to love it much love and respect thanks for sharing
Appreciate it man!
Reminds me when I was in a convoy and the 1st Lieutenant in the point vehicle tried to take a shortcut. The armoured Humvee went downhill and got stuck in a swamp. Then the chow truck almost got stuck trying to get it out. Complete shit show. 😂
Not the chow truck 😂😂!!! lol. Thanks for watching & commenting buddy!!
Us Dads do have telepathic abilities.
Evidently!
Good video. Id like to see yall put that haul truck back together.
I’ll try, but it’s hard to film jumping around to all the different businesses. Hope you’re doing good buddy!?
Very good content
Thank you!!
Mr Digg your Dad has the DaD vibe and you all better get a move on quickly 😎🇺🇸
Everyone starts moving quickly with that guy shows up!
I take it what you're trying to say if your Dad arrived there same time as the storm you would have a double whammy!
Double trouble!
Cripes what sticky stuff.. but all safe.. the haulk truck.. will be interesting to hear what the failure diagnosis proves to be... another great vid, Thanks
Real sticky! Thanks for watching
Need to get a Yankum rope or two - they are Kinetic ropes that stretch and the puller stops and the load is pulled up and out by the rope. They make some Really large ones for big loads. Wonderful I'll be getting one one day myself.
Couple other people suggested those I’ll have to check them out
I been there, brother. Long time ago I buried a push Cat D7 behind a pan. Buried to the top of the tracks.
It happens!
I had a boss that if you did something wrong or damaged something as long as you put your hands up and said sorry boss 99.9% of the time all was good, if you laughed it off and blamed someone else it was a different matter.
I’m kinda the same
Just give your dad a big hug and say you love him son with is dad ❤️🇨🇦
I tell him everyday!
Dozer driver needs to think about what he's risking and if it's worth it..brand new machine
You ain’t kidding!!
I don’t think he understood just how soft that silt from the wash plant is, it looks and seems solid until you actually put weight on it. It’s some interesting stuff!
I mean he showed up right at the perfect timing 😂
Always!!!!!! 😂
You did a good job everyday is a new day. That mud would get you and not let go. Dad was looking at the $$$$ and that is his job.
Well, he is good at his job lol. Thanks for watching!
Thats one of those deals where its just best to clear the area when the big boss shows up
No kidding. I thought we were gonna get away with it! Lol
My dad could be like that also. Better to be doing something rather than waiting for the best tools to accomplish the task.
Fantastic
Boss Man always knows 😂
For sure!lol
WOW! That’s a supersized pickle you’re in!
lol, big ol pickle 🥒!
I've seen that before. It happened on that Gold Rush show to one of the mining guys. The owner wasn't very happy
I might have seen that same episode! Used to love that show!!
That was fun!!!
maybe for you....hahahaha
Sounds like he’s a real layed back awesome boss. He should come n show these people around where I live how to be a boss😂😂 yes foreal he got some years under his belt n knows that shut happens n let’s move on. Dude ur awesome
Thanks buddy!
Yeah that 6 isn't coming out on it's own 😂
Nope! 🚜
Stuff happens! At least it came out fairly easy, we once spent a day or so trying to get a stuck combine out of the field.
Stuff does happen!
Makes me miss playin in the dirt....Heavy equipment is in my blood...❤
I grew up with it. Thanks for watching & commenting!!
Great videos watching from northern Ireland
Hello out there in Northern Ireland. Thank you so much for watching!
@@TheRealMrDiGG love your videos , keep them coming
Too funny…you handled it well, can’t cry after the milk is spilt…it’s already spilt!
True! Thanks for watching
Getting a phone call from AYAYron is never good🤣
Anybody who runs a dozer and says they haven’t been stuck is a liar 😂
I totally agree!
Why was this area so muddy, is it a mountainous stream running through it?
No, I stupidly stockpiled mud from the wash play that area, hoping it will dry out before we got to it
Thats some serious mud
For real
your a awesome boss damn man i wish i could work for a guy like u
I try!
Do you run the landfill operations, and own equipment? Just curious
Yes we’re family owned and operated
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Wow after watching let's dig 18 I went to your channel and subscribe and this is one of the first I've seen it's just amazing wow
Thanks!!!!
Let’s dig18 sent me over , amazing channel you have love it
Thanks for coming over to check out my channel. I really appreciate it.
Damn man. Super cool boss. I’d work for you any day.
Shit happens and nobody got hurt. 👍🏻
I appreciate that, and as long as no one gets hurt, we good!
Hmmm new dozer i would be pissed if he knew that was like that he would be washing it
He washed it! Dad was NOT happy!!
Maybe to check those things when greasing it might had been prevented? Do you have grease guns?
Yes, we use the Dewalt battery grease guns. Thanks for watching & commenting…. I appreciate it!
At the end of the day, Shit happens. Great way of handling it to all involved. Tho i get Dad losing it. As i get older & look back, it just my be your Pops included, we’ve all been there.😂👍
Very true!
Surprised that Komatsu drove out beside that Cat and didn't sink right next to it!!
I thought for a minute, we might have double trouble!
Clearing those tracks is going to take a while
It sure did!
Like my granddaddy used to say, "If it ain't one thing it's another!"
Always something!
I didn't know they had a quick disconnect on that.
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Little baling wire and duct tape she's back together just like new.
Lol, yup old tricks of the trade!!😂
Usually it comes in 3’s😂😂
Yup!
i thought it was impossible to get a LGP Dozer and Loader stuck but obviously if you go in deep enough mud it is possible
Definitely possible, lol
That’s funny I had no clue about the storm I guess I should’ve watched the whole video before my first comment 😂😂
IT ALWAYS CONES IN 3’s for some reason. Stuck Dozer, half a truck, and the storm🤦♂️
Always in threes!
The operator should not have tried so hard to get it out! Once it was stuck he should have gotten off an called for help! 25 years of heavy equipment operation here an I have gotten a dozen stuck one time it was because, I was trying to turn it it the mud, an it sank down! I learned alot, well mistakes happen
Mistakes do happen. Thanks for watching!!
Watching this video unfortunately brought on some ptsd. I worked for a guy that manufactured fear , anxiety and stress in his employees. When you describe getting it done before your dad finds out is exactly what each of us felt under this guy. Why is everyone terrified of your dad? I really enjoyed the mechanics of removing the stuck dozer but hated watching it because of the fear you and your employees expressed. I won't be watching anymore because of it. Thanks
Sorry for the ptsd! It didn’t turn out that bad
that D6 sure as hell needsto be washed with a pressure washer after this, the poor girl.
They cleaned her up good
Lol owns a cart of beer for being bogged and truck broke in half as well ? 😂
Was a hell of a day!
Whats that big pile of slop for?
It was there drying. Comes from the sand washing operation and is used for landfill cover
that's lots of mud !
Right?!
Sheesh what’s wrong with your dad, s happens, no one was hurt and no damage, old people are so mean and have no empathy. Your team is lucky you didn’t inherit that nature.
I guess hes just old school, and when you have a $500k brand new dozer buried in mud you could get a little bothered 😂
You got a great crew there....look after them
They’re awesome!
Well, that was a crap show!😖 But what I see is a boss that just knows that crap happens and you didn't wig out on the crew! I like that❤ Humans are the furthest from perfect.
Stuff happens! Nobody got hurt is the most important part
I understand your dad might not be pleased but if he’s a good boss he will understand people make mistakes. And he will install temporary signage or fencing to ensure it doesn’t happen again. It’s not rocket science. Remember the hierarchy of hazard controls… engineering controls come above administration controls. Isolating workers from the hazard comes before changing the way people work. Nice to see the operator is taking responsibility but it’s not really his fault. Proper hierarchy of controls increases safety and should increase productivity. It’s especially important if you want to scale a business.
He’s a great fellow
I like your attitude. Shit happens when you are working. It is just the opposite here. When I get in a bind watch out for my son.. I’m 77 and not as alert because I’ll have something else distracting me at the time. Tell me about him having a second sense when I’m on the dozer or track hoe. Some how he senses what is going to happen before it does. My brother helps rescue me when I get in a bind. Many times we escape a butt chewing. You have a positive attitude. I’ve subscribed to your Chanel. Ours is hauswald farms. My grand son has it
Thanks for watching! If I ever talked to me my Dad in a negative way he’d slap me into next week!
@@TheRealMrDiGG thanks for the reply. I respect your answer
Too bad there weren't no equipment on hand to deal with it. Stay safe.
Thanks for watching!
How???! How dozer can stuck like this?? 😂😮
Easy……really really deep MUD! Thanks for watching & commenting!!
Dont scratch the new paint
too late!
I'm an excavating contractor and I have AD6LgP and if one of my men got that machine stuck like that, i would but firearm.
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Well the front fell off😅
😂
Momma said there would be days like these but she didn’t tell they would come often.
Momma is always right!!😂
@@TheRealMrDiGG Everyday of the week and twice on Tuesday.
PS Your Father seems like one hell of man.
Have a good day and a better tomorrow.
I think the boys are lucky to have you because i don't think many of them would still be there if your dad was totally in charge. he seams a bit power mad that's not the way to treat your workers .all ways look after those how do the work
you are too intuitive my friend! lol
Well look on the bright side(if there is one) the operator did a complete job and not just half.
lol. True!!
First vid im watching but I was expecting a shit-storm arriving to that site when the golf cart showed up. Im not sure if its a running joke that he took it well as he is always nice or if he really can throw the hammer down. Not sure, but im likely to go back and watch some other videos to find out :D This was a good look into landfills and holy shit that gloop seemed endless.
Dad’s been known to lose it on occasion!😂
Just stick the pole in the hole and keep going!!
Lol
If you Wake Up and are Alive, the Sun is Always Shining Above the Clouds on Any Cloudy Day...
I agree!!
20:33. WINNING!
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back in the 90s when i was in my teens i worked on an old farm. one day the owner bought a 69 d7e and decided to clean the manure run from the back of the barn, we store the manure here and it has been that way for over a hundred years. first push thru the pile and the dozer started going down. we went to get the tractor and that took an hour but by then tracks were no longer in sight.he called a tow company and we foght to get it out for 2 days but it just went deeper. Finaly it was just the top of the cage we could see. well now the manure pile is still there and a 1969 d7e is still under it. cool vid
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
Wow i admire your demeanor i would have had a shit fit
thanks
Hey if your dad doesn't show up before you y'all get the 6 unstuck or if something comes up and he can't make it. it will be a good day if you catch my drift
He always shows up!
Just blame Dirt Perfect and LetsDig18 for bringing the carma.
Lol, unfortunately, this happened way before they came