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[@IanDarley]

If this was a US documentary, there would have been squealing tyres, police sirens, gunshots and massive creaking sounds dubbed over and the host would sound like he was telling a ghost story to a bunch of preschoolers.

[@thatdudeinorange5269]

@IanDarley And it would dramatically start again every five minutes 🙄

[@grantodaniel7053]

...and a few of our Aussie "mega machines" style shows are just as cheesey... totally cringeworthy and annoying! 👍🇦🇺

[@JBobjork]

I have seen it in swedish documentaries also. The one that was following the "road heroes" ie recovery vehicles and TMA vehicles, liked to not just edit in sirens, they also like to edit in honking cars. And screeching tires and crash sounds over CCTV footage (sometimes from a different accident).

[@TomasErikssonErnt]

And flags, alot of flags...

[@Sponge1310]

So true though… also they start like 3 different stories and switch between them every 5 minutes, constantly ‘pushing’ how dangerous or difficult it is, while you can clearly see there are huge margins…

[@SweIceMan]

According to Swedish Vehicle Registry: Recovery vehicle a 4:17 minutes is a Volvo FH16-660 made in 2007. Listed as taken out of service / unlicensed since 2021. Recovery vehicle at 9:22 is a Mercedes-Benz 2628 A 6X6 Recovery vehicle at 9:30 is a 1962 Scania Vabis Model LA82. Listed as taken out of service / unlicensed since 2017

[@kvarnbergs]

Hahaha, vafan, satt precis o kollade det med xD Can add that the MERCEDES BENZ 2628 A 6X6 is a 1986-model... and that it isn't Arosbärgarna who are making the recovery (as mentioned in the clip), but Assistancekåren.

[@SweIceMan]

@@kvarnbergs Bra timing där. då😁

[@bodan1196]

I don't know if "blue clay" is something that means anything more in english than just clay that is blue, but to anyone who has worked with, or on, or in "blålera" (the swedish word for this blue clay), knows that it is... "interesting". So much so that _is_ a cultural reference. "Like working in -melassis- molasses", might be an english parallell. This blue clay was formed duiring ending of the iceage, as the ice cap withdrew northwards. Thus it is most common in northern regions. On the topic of the iceage, it is quite interesting, that the weight of the ice cap, 3-4 km thick, was so heavy, and pressed down on the land beneath it so much, that parts of Sweden, is still rising up almost half an inch per year. Trying to find a "mechanical equilibrium".

[@GunnarMiller]

It's "molasses". Blue clay, or "Swedish clay" is also found along the coast of Maine; it's part of the same quartz, feldspar, and mica geological formation ground up by glaciation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumpscot_Formation .

[@bodan1196]

@@GunnarMiller Thx

[@mattilindstrom]

I live in Espoo Finland (right west of Helsinki), and the main renters of superheavy (up to 300 tons) lifting trucks are right in the city. The ones I've seen deployed in truck belly-ups can lift the thing up like a toy. But getting a digger out of clay is something no amount of upwards pulling can do: the power may be there, but the mounting will fail. That's why one needs a digger with an experienced operator, get the conditions right before applying any serious force.

[@Jan_Seidel]

The cable used to pull the 7 tons excavator is at least rated for 40 tons. I assume Sweden has similar norms like Germany which would mean it should not break up to triple the rated load. In this case 120 tons.

[@jensmadsen4439]

9:50 I like how the chains in the video start rattling when you move your desk... 🤣🤣👍

[@RappyTheOne]

Some good timing :D

[@knight73Swe]

The rescue team is from my hometown in Sweden and have to travel almost 100 miles about 160km to do this rescue.

[@rome0610]

So, for Swedish dimensions it's just the neighborhood! 🤪 Friends of us moved to Sweden (Jämtlands Län) and when we wanted to visit them the first time, the way description was like this: "Coming from the south turn left at [main town], drive 40 km until you pass the abandoned fuel station, turn right onto the gravel road, after 10 km keep left and only 5 km further you see our drive way to the left." No gps needed! 😉

[@knight73Swe]

@@rome0610 in the 90:s when my grandma lived her daughter my aunt could say I’m going to mom for coffee tonight, it was a +3h drive one way so if it got to late she had to sleep on moms sofabed and travel home the next day, I did the same thing one time after my grandma passed I wanted to go flowers on her grave it took 3 days with about 6-7h drives 2 days and a 3h drive day 2 from Västerås to Östersund day 1 Östersund-Föllinge-Östersund day 2 Östersund-Västerås day 3

[@thetrue666]

Östervåla Västerås 🤘

[@SweDaneDragon]

Blue clay is a bit like quicksand. It sucks you in and wont let go.

[@AltCutTV]

It escalates similarly too, especially when running an excavator on it as it trigger the effect for two reasons. High pressure, and low frequency vibration. It pretty much phase change the clay very rapidly. Seemingly solid ground turns into a quagmire. The slow burn version of this can also be observed in some cities, such as Gothenburg.

[@matsv201]

Well.. its sort of get a bit Liqvified by very heavy vibrations. Something like a catterpillar track will make it a bit liqified.

[@willythebluebear]

If I'm driving by and I see something like this happening, 100% of the time I'll park my car and go watch it because it's so incredible and fascinating. and I don't even work in construction.

[@Errathetube]

I'm with you! Seeing skilled professionals solving a difficult task is mighty impressive.

[@jalbertseabra2283]

The clay was 10 meters deep. Around 10 yards. And a house was built there! On top of 10-meter masts, inserted all the way to the bedrock. And the terrain around was extremely unstable. Taking the dog out under heavy, persistant rain -- and one could vanish into the clay.

[@VoodooMcVee]

10 meters deep clay. What an ice age can do to the landscape...

[@nisselarson3227]

Yeah and this blue clay it's not like ordinary mud as in simply earth and water. I dunno, it's got this suction to it. If you loose a boot in it, you're unlikely to retrieve it. :)

[@donfinch862]

There'd be a load indicator on the winch so they know they aren't exceeding the cable capacity. Interesting vid, cheers

[@MoshooDesign]

In the Netherlands cranes and equipment like ropes are required to get inspected once a year at minimum and they add tags to them, so you can see when their last inspection was. This should reduce the chances of cables snapping. Nevertheless accidents happen, so best is to stay clear of those cables and never walk under a hanging load.

[@papaquonis]

5:52 Yeah, me too. I would never dare get that close to a rope under tension like that, especially not after seeing James May taking a beating from that in an old Top Gear episode.

[@lexluthor6497]

Don't watch recovery videos in the evening,you get too exited and can't sleep.

[@jonathonwessling541]

Fun fact! If spider silk was woven into cable as tight and thick as these cables, they'd only need half the number of cables used, that's if 2 of the trucks were powerful enough to do the winching 😅

[@-sandman4605]

Very good recovery considering that type of clay.

[@jhdix6731]

Fiat Hitachi is a joint venture that exists since 1986 for the European market, much like for the American Market, Hitachi teamed up with John Deere (as Deere Hitachi) in 1988.

[@satanihelvetet]

That wrecker with four legs is a Mercedes, (ex German air force I think). The other two is Volvo and the green one is ex swedish army (from the 50's I think).

[@OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOok]

See the Brazilians Opala's straight 6, imagine, a freaking 2500HP 6 cylinders big turbo with CEMENT, CEMENT in the block to not broken.

[@lipgloss202]

Awesome and good job on that recovery!

[@bloodragefromnorway]

they use lifting straps to pull the small excevator, the they dont snap as regular lines would, so there is less chance getting hit if it whould break

[@perryrhodan1936]

The white 7-ton excavator is a Takeuchi model. Quite competent machines if you do not U-Boat them into the ground.

[@qualitytraders5333]

The recovery vehicles are ex-military used for e.g. tank recoveries. Tanks weigh way more than excavators.

[@StanleyWareham]

A company I used to work for has four different sized trucks like the first one, one that is bigger and can lift a tractor unit and trailer combined, weight wise, they also have one, they used to have two, foden ex military tank recovery unit

[@AltCutTV]

One recovery unit is apparently from the sixties though. The average swedish tanks back then were about a quarter the mass of that excavator. Things sure went heavier after the sixties somehow. ;D

[@satanihelvetet]

Notice the speaker voice deliberately imitated that we can hear in american shows, although this is a swedish video. QA litle of humour there.

[@JS-1983]

I think that off-road tow truck is Mercedes Benz SK or NG. But there is Scania 111 SBAT which was (maybe still is used) by Swedish army. Scania offered also 6x6 trucks at least of 112, 142 and 113, 143 models

[@bm1113]

Yes :) And The Green one in this video are a Scania LA82

[@virtueofhate1778]

Yup, it's NG.

[@otgiggs]

Agree, I think that ex-Nato military is an MB. The standard heavy wrecker that towed the small white digger is probably a Volvo FH16 and the green one might be a Scania "Myrslok". And yes, Scania SBAT 111 is still very much in use in the Swedish army.

[@johnny5k]

Just imagine the 💵 bill for this operation. I wonder if the excavator driver ever worked in that job again.

[@JS-1983]

Earlier there was also Fiat-Allis machines, i quess you know American brand Allis Chalmers.

[@MrLekatt]

...drawn out for a week! 👍😂 We're more down to earth... hmmm... mud here in Sweden. Nice video! Thanks!

[@nikokorppi5215]

Pay attention for those bucket twisters on the excavators

[@matsv201]

Blue clay nevwr dry out. If its dry it make a thin cheramic like surface. Large machine cam just break throw. Even if the ground look really solid, something like a excavator can break throw and just think. I seen a truck do that in real life. Also often when we build houses on blue clay irs built with a floating foundation. Basically its like a boat. The foundation is drained and will harden the clay closest to rhe house keeping it fixed while the balance of the house and ground will prevent ot from sinking of floating up. In some placed also roads are built that way, but that turned out to be a bit expenive

[@evawettergren7492]

I agree about the wire being scary... there was an episode on a tv show about heavy rescue where a wire did snap. Think a guy had to go to the hospital, but wasn't like maimed or anything. But yeah. I get you.

[@Hewitt_himself]

3:10 next door sits on 30ft piles.... imagine a shipping container upright... or 2 ford focus' parked with room to access them

[@tomdewispelaere4727]

Hello. Im new in the channel and seen you haven't dived into MotoGP yet. May i suggest "6 minutes of Marc Marquez saves"?This multiple world champion is the king of saves ... hope you like it and gets you more into MotoGP. Keep up this cool channel. Saludos desde España a la familia!

[@SPPhotography89]

04:40 That is clearly the Volvo FH 16 of the new generation

[@Fwuedwikk]

That truck is not new at all, it's a pre-2013 Volvo FH.

[@oakld]

The line may have some safety nylon lining. Bare steel cables are extremely dangerous and may cut a person in half or decapitate with a shot of hook broken off, etc. have a respect to this simple equipment!

[@richig.5610]

Fiat-Hitachi was a Joint Venture in the late 80's and 90's in Europe, in North America Hitachi and John Deere also had an Joint Venture from 1988-2021

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

John Deere war mal Hirsch glaub ich!?

[@jan-willemvisscher307]

The 6x6 truck is a Mercedes Benz NG. Wikipedia mentions, regarding Fiat-Hitachi: In 1986, Fiatallis and Hitachi formed a joint venture called Fiat-Hitachi Excavators S.p.A. to manufacture excavators in Italy. In January 1988, Fiat combined their Fiatallis construction equipment subsidiary and their Fiatagri S.p.A. agricultural equipment subsidiary into the new Fiat Geotech S.p.A. holding company. In July 1992, Fiat announced another joint venture between their Fiat Geotech subsidiary, and Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited that was called Fiat-Hitachi Construction Equipment S.p.A. The joint venture with Hitachi yielded Fiat-Hitachi and Fiatallis construction machinery branding for different markets until 2002 when Hitachi terminated the agreement. After Fiat S.p.A. purchased Case Corporation in 1999 and formed CNH, they eventually retired the Fiatallis brand within a few years in their remaining markets and merged the company's assets with others from Case and New Holland. CNH's construction equipment lines are called New Holland Construction and Case Construction Equipment.

[@RappyTheOne]

What a mud bath!

[@nisselarson3227]

Fiat Group currently produces vehicles under twelve brands: Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Ferrari, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Ram Trucks, and SRT.

[@petter5721]

Swedes do some awesome recovery jobs 👍🏻

[@Tiger313NL]

Seen from the side, that first, four axle, wrecker is an older model Volvo FH cab. The three axle one is a Mercedes-Benz NG cab. If it's an actual Mercedes truck, it's been out of production since 1988. Otherwise it could be a Serbian FAP truck, as they still use that cab. (Yeah, I didn't invent that brand name eh!) 🤭 Could not quite make out the brand of that former military wrecker.

[@theseeker2KK]

blue mud/clay is soft as hell you sink in that shit fast

[@MattBlue]

The red recovery truck is a Mercedes-Benz NG truck. Look it up on Wikipedia, unfortunately youtube does not like links, otherwise I would have added a link it.

[@fjolis100]

I havent read any comments. Do you notice the rotator on the excavator? Almost standard on Europeans, at least Scandinavian excavators. Looking at North American series I almost never see that? Am I wrong or don't you use it much?

[@valije]

To be fair in USA they know how to do recovery videos too (as long as it is not on TV). My favorite is @trailmater. No nonsense, no music, no made up drama, just 3 guys using a mad-max like truck to rescue offroad vehicles in Moab of all places. Rori is a beast and you can see he knows his stuff either on recovery and offroading.

[@thatdudeinorange5269]

Fully agree Trailmater channel is THE BEST doing those recoveries.

[@aserta]

Clay recovery is just about... the worst possible shoite you can get yourself into. We had to recover something from a bog once, and the operator who came to help said "this is still better than clay".

[@lailachopperchops9290]

just seen your doppleganfer in tesco llandrindod wells could have been your twin , only he was wearing a cowboy hat

[@jamieoutlaw1523]

You should watch all of the Ken block gymkhana videos

[@LarsV62]

There was a landslide in 2016 close to where I live, that happened in connection with construction of a tunnel and filling out part of the lake by the road. The soil there also has a high amount of clay similar to this one. Two excavators was lost, but fortunately the workers had just left for lunch break and was not affected directly. A video was made during the rescue operation by a local camera drone operator in cooperation with the entrepreneur and diving operation company. If you want to check it out, you can find it at kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5vXiniphLF9fpYsi=BlpyVagB8qcLmTJU

[@shugskinner5201]

Just out of curiosity have you seen Ken Block's ( RIP ) Gymkhana vids extreme driving at its best . He was a driving god

[@KjellEson]

Hi IWrocker, do you never sleep? I can't understand how you manage so much. We get to see uploads here in Europe as you probably do do in the middle of the night in the US.

[@automation7295]

Do you ever considered the existence of timezone? Also even Europe have different timezone.

[@Rix.67]

Its cut, but is classic rescue video 🇸🇪

[@picao1984]

Laso overcoming obstacles Take a look it's the most high overnight transport in Europe Portuguese brand...😊

[@dubsnbuds6668]

Might I recommend some second world war tank recovery they get some to run after been submerged in water or mud amazing viewing

[@Lueluekopter]

Have you seen "Titans of the Earth"? 😅 Shows the real life of excavators

[@inamortz2372]

I wouldn't have parked it there.

[@galaxystar8232]

Would love to see u react to notjustbikes video on „why swiss trains are the best in europe“ :)

[@afrog2666]

Pro tip: if you see "AB" after a company name, it stands for aksjebolag, and is Swedish, if it`s "AS" it stands for aksjeselskap, which is Norwegian, they both translate to "LLC", or limited liability company. Easy way to see if it`s Norway or Sweden (:

[@Cloudberry84]

Aktiebolag in swedish

[@SPPhotography89]

In Finland, you can have AB companyname OY, from which OY = Limited Liability Company

[@automation7295]

Most country uses different limited liability company after a company names. Yes Sweden use AB (Aktiebolag) and Norway use AS (Aksjeselskap), Denmark use A/S (Aktieselskab).

[@Hansen710]

this is why i dont like using big excavators with a short arm next to a big hole. when i look at the excavators position, it looks like they was trying to cut corners and use a to small machine... there is no such thing as solid ground next to a large hole, when you are sitting on top of many ton´s you never know when the ground is not there anymore.. no matter the conditions look at that short arm and that giant hole 2+2 if that is the only tool you have you would dig a ramp first and not be on the top of a edge

[@davidcruse6589]

You need to look up aussie salvage Ruff and ready typical Aussie's make do with what you've got They have lots of fun most of the time They take on anything they recovered one like this But do yatchts boats even remove tree's even helped after massive storm pulling buildings of other buildings They take on what others won't They use a big unimog with hughe winches X army they used for recovering tanks that where bogged Its a seasonal tv show here Also another show called claytons recovery They recover rolled over semi trailers with multiple trailer's If your interested i had recommended them before We call the area they where pulling that machine out swamp land where it just sucks what even goes down until disappears Cheers mate 🦘🇦🇺👍

[@chrisperyagh]

We had a similar thing over at the new Amazon place being built by the new flyover (next to Rolls-Royce) when all around it was flooded: kzbin.infoD-4TrsHUe5k Just in case you're struggling with the lingo, he's saying "Someone's not having a good day! This has only just gone in - engine's still running. Whoops! They're building this errr... big warehousey-thing I'm not sure what that is. Oh, man. There's a hi viz in there but I can't see if it's the driver or if it's just hanging over the back of his seat. But we've had a bit of rain and it is a bit sticky. Mate, that ain't coming out today."

[@gerbentvandeveen]

I am a gantry crane user myself. 1 of 20T and 2 of 25 T. This is mathematics in practice. Look again. To the position of all drag and lift points. The butt of the excavator is too high. There's the Rotater, hitchhiking. But the center of gravity is further away, due to the extended mast. Now go into your mind. Want to draw lines? That's easier to learn than formulas.

[@phillipgreen3893]

Have you ever played the game Snowrunner?

[@automation7295]

Snowrunner doesn't have deep blue clay

[@JZusselB]

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[@YoungArj]

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[@PW-um4ch]

Hey Ian, check out the Menzi Muck excavators! Those things are really awesome and clever!!

[@GunnarMiller]

You should do more on European cables kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmbMiWWAjsimbacsi=Uc1Fg2VRo86wYW5e .

[@Splattercat82]

hi can you pls make a reaction on the video "how the usa colonized the usa" ?

[@KarinSandi]

Bet the land was once the bottom of a lake/sea - hence the deep clay.

[@VargVinter]

wait... did the one yellow-red truck really say "ASSISTANCE KAREN" on the stickers on rear side? 😅

[@johnjohn9301]

Nope. It says "Assistance Kåren", and translated to English its similar to "assistance brigade" or "assistance team", dear to think outside the box and outside the Us border (its a Big World out there)😆😆

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[@peterwild9459]

2 mins in and not impressed, take a look at Heavy D or Sparks Mtrs in the USA, made to the end but not again please

[@Ephoros]

First? 😂 🇱🇻

[@SPPhotography89]

idiota :)

[@FastDriver91]

That commentary in the video is so cringey....

[@anth5189]

Waterlogged clay is also very heavy. Yea, it's pulling up the planks and the cable is at a bad angle.

[@PhoenixWingman69]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_clay this is the clay they are fighting!

[@Ikmijnnaam]

godddddddddddddddddd dammit your yanks are SUCH CHILDREN !!!!! And you are an actual father !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JEZUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@SRSpoony]

Americans act like we are backwards in Europe but if anything it's the other way around. We have so much more advanced stuff its mind bending. Not to dis the NA boys n girls but we don't play around over here. We set the standards tbh It don't have to be big to do the best job

[@-sandman4605]

🙂👍

[@MKitchen75]

youre are so , true act smarter and you get things done without fuzz with smaller equipment

[@module79l28]

*It doesn't