I never realised that driving a backhoe in Alaska would be dangerous

[Mark R]

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Clearly, this driver didn't.

Neither did the engineers who sent a crane out to retrieve it....

 

[Evadman]

Lights still work

 

[KLin]

Picture of crane submerged?

 

[50cent1228]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Lights still work

lol

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Heh, they have lost heavy equipment down some of the gravel pits around here if I recall correctly. The water table around my place is only about five to ten feet down, so the pits fill with water relatively quickly.

 

[andylawcc]

*awaits the Subaru pics

 

[Eos]

Just to completely correct, that's a bulldozer. You can tell because of the smokestack placement and the breather just to the left of it, plus the hydraulic rams where the lights are mounted.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: eos
Just to completely correct, that's a bulldozer. You can tell because of the smokestack placement and the breather just to the left of it, plus the hydraulic rams where the lights are mounted.

yup, it is a late model Caterpillar D9 or D10 most likely. I've spent some time on those.

Neither did the engineers who sent a crane out to retrieve it....

That might be a total loss. If it is permafrost there, it would take a huge effort to build a pad and get that thing out. It weighs more than 100,000 pounds.

 

[IGBT]

..they are top heavy. had some close calls myself.

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..they are top heavy. had some close calls myself.

mmm.... top heavy~~~~

 

[Eos]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..they are top heavy. had some close calls myself.

Biggest 'dozer I've run is a D5, but I was just messing around. In anger, I've run a 980G rubber tired front-end loader with a 5 yard bucket. 7 foot tall tires, 300hp or something. Enormous.

 

[WingZero94]

Looks like the engine is still running - smoke stack flap is up in the air.

 

[BoomerD]

The OP must be a newspaper reporter...the only 2 kinds of equipment they know is crane and backhoe...or crane and bulldozer...no matter what kind it actually is...
/me has been an Operating Engineer for over 30 years...MOSTLY cranes, but I've spent my time pulling levers in Dozers (up to D-11) scrapers, (631, 6541 and 651, plus a couple of paddlewheels) Loaders up to Cat 992, a Few Haul Trucks of various makes and sizes, (biggest was 170 ton WABCO trucks in a mine in Idaho) and some excavators...mostly Cat's, and ONLY Cat controls...JD controls get me all fvcked up!)
Lots of stories about equipment disappearing through the permafrost during the Alyeska pipeline job in the 70's and early 80's...