Heavy Excavator Accident Sink Underwater & Stuck In Deep Mud Recovery By Excavator & Bulldozer

[@robintanner3247]

Just freakin unbelievable…. Uncoordinated on so many levels… just SMH…..

[@kristdaa4612]

These people have no idea what they're doing

[@yilmazulasylmaz1125]

Var var ama oralı olmuyor kimse 😂

[@KenFullman]

If they did, they wouldn't have been in that situation in the first place.

[@c-v-n3322]

This is so painful to watch! I've seen many times where these are buried to the door and it didn't take no 2 hours to get out. I would have used some logs floats personally instead of them steel sheets

[@bhinho]

Not the same, this excavator cannot start

[@justgopherit3454]

Wow, watching this was extremely painful, coming from a family of heavy machinery operators.

[@barristanselmy2758]

The word idiot comes to mind

[@TommyIrl77]

Its brtual for sure eh

[@hensleydecoteau2358]

CY cu chi TX me CY cu ft Á at are Fg at8 US

[@dereckjtbear2175]

Coming from. Non machinery, Just firefighter equipment Made for frustrating all the same,2.30hrs and Still in same position. Aaaargh...!

[@KnightMoonShadow]

Um, coming from a heavy equipment company, he likely slid in. Wouldn't a crane have been much more beneficial?

[@سعودسعود-غ6ف]

You guys have done the impossible, You are amazing,, 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@andyvitz]

These guys need a lot more training

[@vetrieu1997]

🙋😂❤️❤️❤️

[@andyvitz]

These guys were doing it the hardest way possible

[@bobwebber8521]

Finally at 1:53 someone says Gee lets try to shift stuff from under the front front of the tracks to reduce the angle. I swear this is the last one of these I am going to watch because my blood pressure can't stand it.

[@jeffreymurdock8366]

Don't see how this would affect your blood pressure. I mean it has nothing to do with you in any way other than you watching it. They did this their way and unfortunately that wasn't the way we would do it. And unfortunately they didn't think how to do it like we would. Point is we have no control over how they did it so why stress about it. Sit back and laugh about how long it took them to get it out or do something we would have done right away. I've had a few good laughs at them not doing stuff efficiently as we would have. Stressing about something you have no control over and that doesn't affect you will definitely shorten your life. Like these idiots doing these side shows. Long as it doesn't affect me I just don't worry about it and laugh at how stupid they are.

[@fredscheerle7592]

@@jeffreymurdock8366 It's a vid on how not to, do as I say not as I do thing!

[@tl1326]

@@jeffreymurdock8366 are neurotic by any chance because empathy should be a common emotion and by empathy, i mean empathy towards a piece of heavy machinery

[@swarfs]

@@jeffreymurdock8366 I think he said his blood pressure won't stand another video like it as a figure of speech. Not literally. I don't think they tried. Perhaps something to do with making more work for the working man to do.!!! I find heavy machinery videos relaxing.

[@MrEst1953]

Great work don't let the job wear you down. A few Water pumps would help

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

Next time: while the diggers are dewatering the site, have two or three goobers working on the stuck machine to get it running again. This *greatly* simplifies the process.

[@nelsonmartinez8088]

Letsdig 18 would of already recovered it all by himself. This guys need a supervisor to guide them.

[@khoirikenang836]

Dll

[@khoirikenang836]

Hub

[@jamezxh]

Bit of a Different story when the machine can't come out on it's own Juice

[@botrax]

Exactly what I was also immediately thinking about! He would send away all these 3 machines and would do it with perfect preperation in a much shorter time, completely alone. Especially with his WOODEN plates he always uses instead of these metal plates... Painful to whatch these idiots...

[@redeyetrucker520]

Nailed it!!!

[@fiskrond9212]

why work clever when you can work hard... what a shambles... dig out either side and get some portable pumps in place... makes things a lot easier than fighting groundwater seepage.. rescue machines can work far more efficiently

[@superdinkydoo]

If you drive by on that road above you can still see them trying to remove that machine today, it has become a tourist must see site. Be safe.

[@tommowreyhomewerksllc685]

You mean they never get it out??? Glad I read your post before I spent too much time watching.

[@davidroosa4561]

you can probably find it on google earth

[@genegleason4987]

Couple of American m88 a2 tank retrievers . Out in two hours

[@Sinvare]

Are winches and snap blocks not a thing? Maybe it's because I grew up in an area that does logging/fishing but you would think they would have at least 1 powerful winch in their fleet. Throw some snatch blocks in with the excavators as anchors and you get an easy 4 to 1 advantage. if the dozer and 2 excavators drop their blades/buckets to act as anchors, they would have a holding power greater than force they could exert while trying to drag the machine. I get a winch and cable are expensive but so is losing time running machines for recovery. If the the cables/snatch blocks are cleaned off and stored out of the rain after use, they should outlast all the machines and people.

[@asarand]

One of the things I've noticed about these videos is that they never seem to learn from the mistakes. They just keep trying to do the same thing over and over. It's like, well we got it to work last time, maybe we can do it again. It's almost like they don't want to learn how to do it better and more efficiently.

[@pvillehick67]

Job superintendent should be fired.

[@momesh9107]

I had the same mentality until I realized I am not in their shoes. Preasure, Time, Deadlines it can all get to you / this is a strategy to delay the project...

[@kimberlyclairecasantusan2391]

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[@kimberlyclairecasantusan2391]

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[@kimberlyclairecasantusan2391]

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[@scottbuescher5350]

The buckets being half full the entire time really gets me

[@frankdorado4976]

How can we find out how and when the piece of equipment was recovered? Would be very welcome

[@ClinttheGreat]

@scottbuescher5350 Yep. I kept thinking are these guys new at this. Fill up your bucket.

[@xenomorph7299]

No wonder these poor countries will always be behind. Worlds but crack of countries.

[@D62121]

Instead o standing in the excavator grab a shovel start digging!!!!! Finally they help thanks guys!!!!

[@barristanselmy2758]

They call this the half bucket method, it takes twice as long, but it takes twice as long.

[@tdslnews]

Sure my wife can do that job....better

[@DonMutchler-om5pg]

Did you ever do something like this? I didn't think so. If they take a heaping bucket, they'd be in the hole with the other hoe. They have pads, but that's super soft material. Think about the leverage factor.

[@ErichelleDecastro]

0l. ​@@tdslnews

[@frankdorado4976]

This is KILLING ME. Maybe if they all sat down and talked about it , it would be a little bit easer? Would not hurt. These guys are HURTING.

[@Engineersoldinterstingstuff]

What amazes me the most is that the two non stick machines manages to move around in that slurry...

[@thomascornelius510]

Need to get a mechanic in there and get that thing running it would have helped out so much getting that out of there

[@yogaadisetiawan3335]

Nice videos Frind 👍👍👍

[@JordashTrucking]

Oh man! that looks just like a 50 ton Volvo that got stuck up here in Northern Ontario Canada. What a job that was to take out. We have videos of it on our channel :)

[@SPUDHOME]

The half bucket method has a great design, it is called overtime

[@kdel9776]

I love with a forman was going to throw a rock under the dozer track

[@CC-Equipment]

Thank for love it

[@wombatonabike6717]

The perfect example of how not to do it...The Foreman hasn't got a clue.

[@PauloCesar-iz5iu]

M

[@kdel9776]

Agreed

[@mikevandenbosch9081]

This was difficult to watch and not yell at my phone! Not a clue

[@colinmccarthy7921]

I am an Engineer.The next step in the design of Excavators,is to produce Excavators that do not get stuck in water/slurry.This is the Ingenuity of Engineering.(Nothing is Impossible).

[@alainguilon6218]

Bonne chance ça me paraît irréaliste mais sait t,on jamais

[@joeduffy3309]

So,,, swamp tracks? I think it's been done

[@JuanCardenas-]

For the time you have waisted , it would have been cheaper to hire a Crane . Time is Money !!!

[@GreatTime_TV]

amazing machines

[@TheUltimate65]

Big rescue job, much friction and bad tracktion for the buldozer

[@aquaden8344]

How could they assume to have enough pulling power to pull/drag the stuck excavator, still sitting deep in the mud, up the steep slop. If ignorance would be a blessing, then these guys would be really blessed! The excavator looks it has been sitting in the mud for a while. Around all the pins is rust as if it was sitting in the mud for weeks. There are other videos of stuck machines in this channel and I always wonder how people can perform this kind of jobs with soo little common sense. Somebody mentioned letsdig18 and that the guy first assess the situation and then uses mats or other things to prevent from sinking into the mud, something the people in Cambodia don't know or don't use.

[@swarfs]

Interesting point. The marks under the boom pins. Looks like no maintenance. To me. Are these Cambodian road construction machines government owned ??? If so that explains it.

[@davidgramm5027]

It did not appear to have been underwater. Once they got the water and mud lowered, the mechanic should have been in there trying to get the engine started unless the crankcase had water in it. With a running engine, the hydraulics for the boom and bucket could have been used as a pusher even if the tracks were spinning.

[@frankdorado4976]

CANNOT TAKE THIS ANY LONGER. GOOD RIDDANCE.

[@ActiveJoe]

As someone watching from the US it's nice to see everyone working together, but there are so many ways this could have been done smarter and way more safely. Thanks for posting

[@CC-Equipment]

🙏

[@sangvirek7507]

.. ឲ.ឲ៊.....ថា.

[@saetatik2299]

No Bully

[@saetatik2299]

.. , contoh

[@muhammadsapiah3173]

Sukak sangat2

[@TheSoloAsylum]

I've never seen a third world person that understands what weight, speed, traction and momentum are.

[@naturalbornswabian6947]

The foreman must have been the guy who got it stuck in the first place, judging by the competency of this "operation"...

[@killerhun1441]

usually its "managment" who gets them stuck coz they think they are above physics.

[@hernanrozo102]

Con tres grúas mecánicas se saca mejor esa máquina de aproximada ese peso de 45 ton aquí en Colombia lo hemos hecho

[@nhat_ban_va_toi983]

Kéo được Máy Xúc kia lên cũng khó khăn đấy bạn

[@supermeg-y4u]

Its amazing they didn't loose them all. Ouch!!

[@AikenZeusDiokno]

Wow ❤❤❤❤ 😮 0:42

[@anthonyiannone7618]

they should put it back in ,and make a 4 hour video next time

[@CC-Equipment]

So long thime 4H

[@uranus348]

No experience..... !! The Driver must be crazy and the construction management.

[@freduyoung328]

From my experience on heavy equipment which isn't many years of driving and using have your equipment what is proficient in doing so the job could have been done easier faster and safer pulling it straight out after getting the tracks free and pulling it straightforward the way the boom was facing would have been the easiest way but everyone has their own way of doing things so have a good day be safe in Jesus name amen

[@raimundononato4428]

Sou operado de escavadeira hidráulica fico constrangido quando acontece isso

[@TimberTramp]

Volvo has taken over the heavy equipment business!

[@howie4150]

The most important thing. Make sure no one uses hard hats and shoes are not required. Standard dress code for these parts.

[@andycurran3327]

Federal review $1700 State reply $1600 County respond $1500 Village inspect $1400 Bank interest $1300 Insurance claim $1200 Attorney fees $1150 Extra equipment $1100 Extra fuel $200 Bridge structural $145 Engineer review $140 Soil testing $135 Artifact discovery $130 Paleontology $125 Indian affairs $124 Border dispute $123 Title search $122 Military alert $121 Anger classes $120 Counseling cost $115 Crowd fencing $105 Erosion control $100 After dark lighting $95 Aquatic rescue $90 Protester security $85 K-9 drug search $80 Homeless removal $75 Pathogens report $72 Health response $71 Over time $70 (can't?) Boots $60 (can't?) Hard hat $50 (can't?) Towing $35 Extra labor $30 Video revenue +$20 Mechanic new hire $7 Night watchman $6 Safety vest $5 (2 max) Wiz quiz $4 Junior meal $3 Kid meal $2 Shovel repair $1 Completion fines $ 0 Where'd it go wrong? Total cost to taxpayer: $ 100,000.00 giver take The phone call: Mr Jones how much for da new guy? No no to much, he no good!

[@mosizzlek2945]

But they wear masks! 😂

[@incubatork]

Things must have been real bad for them not to try to get the stuck excavator started, I never once saw anyone even looking in the engine compartment. Once clear of the water they can fix anything needed to get it running which would have helped imensly. Also though I didn't understand a word, there were far too many chiefs and very few indians giving out orders. You need one person, and maybe a trusted sidekick to get the job done faster.

[@darrylphipps2221]

Wow hes is Stuck Really Bad 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@kdel9776]

I've never seen so many wasted strokes

[@nashvegaspimp]

I work in the medical field, so I’m not a heavy equipment operator. But usually when I watch these videos and I know exactly what they are doing, and what their next move is mostly going to be. I was lost pretty much after 8mins.

[@redryderaus]

32:35 Case in point. Digs a scoop out, dumps the scoop just uphill of the buried machine. The mud will flow back down.

[@CC-Equipment]

Thank for Idea

[@VimyScout]

I normally slip into unconsciousness halfway through these kind of video's. Not that I find them to be boring at all. It's a simple fact of the moving, heavy metal machinery clanking, and squeaking that somehow puts me in a deep state of rest. Just sayin🙂

[@BackFortyTV]

Same.

[@MrMeck58]

They start off trying to get it out of mud and in the end, the machine looks like it' in a lake. It may just be me but.....these guys looked like they didn't know exactly what they were doing.

[@prinzeugenvansovoyen732]

you could have used a auxiliary hydraulic unit and connect it to the hydraulic system of the excavator- that way you can use the excavators hydraulics without engine power

[@seamusmcmahon1182]

Didn't know that. Is that on on the hammer lines

[@prinzeugenvansovoyen732]

@@seamusmcmahon1182 no , on the man lines that usually come from the hydrauklic pump to the valve block

[@aonforme3349]

@@prinzeugenvansovoyen732 Great idea!!!

[@SPUDHOME]

Are the connections above mud level. Or is there a new system that you can connect up high on the boom, then back flow through all the valves, that are shorted out because they are electronic controlled. Then get the expert like you to tell them how to make it work?

[@alainguilon6218]

J,aimerait bien voir le système faites une vidéo 📹 s,il vous plaît

[@redryderaus]

All they are doing is moving mud up so it flows back down. With all their time the machine is still buried just as deep. Great when you are being paid an hourly rate. You make it last forever.

[@jesusmgonzalezbriceno9102]

esos operadores estan extrayendo esa excavadora con la pala en sentido opuesto al arrastre lo q hace q se recargue el peso dl brazo y cuchara sobre la oruga deben girar el brazo en el otro sentido para q le haga torque y levante la oruga del piso d manera q sea mas facial halarla y arasttrarla hasta ponerla en suelo firme

[@andyvitz]

You're supposed to use wood big pieces of wood. Not metal plates that can sink just as easy as you can

[@Dan-ud8ob]

YOUR ALL FIRED...What a comedy !!

[@xenomorph7299]

You're... derp a derp duh derp dumb dumb da da derpy

[@jaganathanjaganathan9979]

Please call super man, spider man, hulk, iron man etc, to work together 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@andyvitz]

And at fifty two minutes they could have already pulled us out they knew what they were actually doing

[@Joel-st5uw]

Amazing teamwork, but when the guy starts digging away huge chunks of the bridge abutment... 🤦‍♂️🙅‍♂️

[@CC-Equipment]

It's Accident

[@jchoong4965]

Get some excavator mechanics to locate and release pressure lock up in the hydraulic motor, in order to free the drive chain, enable it to move freely while pull up by bulldozer..

[@SPUDHOME]

The hard part is to find those mechanics, that can swim through mud, we haven taught salamanders how to be hydraulic experts.

[@frankdorado4976]

I don’t know how to drive. But, I’ll drive for you. No problem.

[@leonardcrum6896]

I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage, two days ago I couldn’t even spell operator, today I are one!🥴😵‍💫

[@chuckklemme6988]

How many days were they at it? Forgot the ‘sky crane’ huh?😉😉

[@a.lavernefilan1888]

A dozer with a winch, a snatch block on the stuck excavator and a runable excavator as an anchor would have been far superior to mud wrestling in a pig wallow. Trading one stuck machine for several stuck machines is counterproductive. The best way to learn how to do something is to watch others do it wrong a then do the opposite and see if it works. The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

[@bobbyb322]

Just WOW

[@milenkokuzmanovic962]

And what did we see here ? Nothing. Two hours in the mud and the machine remained in the mud again. 😂

[@eshootziscrs2868]

Two hours? Oh how silly people perceive reality. Watch again and watch the sun angles, that was over two days of video edited into two hours.

[@kdel9776]

Nice machines though

[@CC-Equipment]

The best. thank you

[@angusblack9900]

No shoes but you must wear masks

[@sawomirpiszczek680]

A shovel, rake, bucket and sandbox, and not work on modern machines. Total lack of imagination to drown such a good excavator in the mud. Pozdrawiam z Polski😃!!!

[@bonzai2380]

If this isn’t recovery in dire need of some wooden swamps mats! Talk about goo to work in. Gotta give them credit they didn’t the recovery excavators.

[@Codytrucking6]

This is painful to watch so much equipment and no coordination they should’ve had it out in an hour

[@wolkennase1]

Great job😂

[@phoenix327]

The guy running the machine on the back end has no clue, taking water out of the hole dumping it higher so it all runs back in, armatures in charge of heavy equipment, three day s now, im amazed they didn't blow the bulldozer clutches.

[@moman0166]

I don’t think I have ever seen such a uncoordinated bunch of untrained heavy equipment operators do nothing but make a giant hole. It would take one excavator operator about 2 hours to get the stuck excavator out that knew what he was doing.

[@momesh9107]

I know its easy to talk however if I was the project manager, I would have let that thing sink. It would have cost us less and insurance would have covered the accident. It took almost a week + 4 machines and a truck had to stop working inorder to take out 1 machine. Too much money went down the drain

[@davidhogden7551]

That was an interesting retrieve but what a cost though as 3 and another for a while to do that job the owner of the machine will havto work for a month to makup the cost,Hey.!!

[@johnholland1560]

After 2 and a half hours it still wasn't free !

[@gilneipires2011]

Sugestão: Assista em velocidade 2.0😀

[@jayb8476]

This brings new meaning to amateur hours... Why would you try pulling it under the bridge? (I'm only 2 hours in, and I think my head is going to explode)

[@BlueNaRo-dn2qs]

I Watching it makes me so nervous

[@fx1c333]

Why not drag it out in a straight line then repair instead of trying to get it under bridge. For gods sake get some decent mats steel one are very slippery. Jumping the hydraulic lines would have saved time.

[@howie4150]

Owner of heavy excavator: I want you today to go out in deep mud and do you're job.. Ok boss. You got it. Mission accomplished

[@douglasburnside]

I watched this 10 seconds at a time, skipping ahead five minutes each one. I don't think I missed anything. If I had it to do again, I would have skipped in 10 minute increments.

[@prinzeugenvansovoyen732]

rescuing a excavator that has no power you need to disconnect the hydraulic lines to the drive motors and connect inlet and loutlet line together to let it roll freely

[@jeffreymurdock8366]

Now what you say would be perfect if they could have gotten to the lines but the lines we under mud and water. Plus those hydraulic motors for the tracks spin quite fast but use gearing to slow the tracks down. They have a ton of torque because of it but don't move really fast so trying to disconnect the hoses would barely help because the tracks don't turn fast at all because they don't have enough torque to get the motor spinning fast as it normally would. The proper way to get the tracks to not hold back would be to open the cover on the finals on the outside of the tracks and pull the final planetary gear out of the housing and put the cover on. Then the tracks won't be trying to turn the motor and be held back. They would then spin freely.

[@prinzeugenvansovoyen732]

@@jeffreymurdock8366 if so they could have used a hydraulic aggregate to connect it to the excavators hydraulics, so the excavator has hydraulic power without engine power

[@01ripkirby]

2 and a half hours and we did not see it get out! Should have left it there and turned into a tourist attraction. Or got some proper help!

[@walrusinanus]

LOL they wear flipflops. This is truly a different world 😂

[@PatricioLegaspi]

You tie the boom of the stuck excavator bring it up

[@CC-Equipment]

yes we try to recover it up

[@rudolfx1070]

Th driver went down with his ship, saluting as he went! The sailors made off with the loot!! Oooo argh!

[@rudolfx1070]

Cutlasses in their mouths, fingers greedily grabbing the doubloons!

[@enkerl9172]

😮👍👍

[@CarlosHernandez-lx5ci]

Es mejor que ladejen. Ahi talves nacen pequeñitas 🤗🤒

[@phillipmckinney7906]

I would call this a __Larry_Moe and a whole boat load of Curlies Circus :)))))

[@kevinblough2853]

i been run eq for over 40 year and i find this very funny and aggravating at the sane time pretty sure i could of got that out before even started to vbe that bad lol

[@sedneyisidoroobispo7606]

Eso mismo decia yo, despues de detener el agua, tenian que intentar arancar el motor, a ver si sensiende.

[@jessecurtner7254]

Hell of a fishing hole when you get done

[@derekbrake184]

I really like there work boots to lmao

[@davidgramm5027]

They do know they are trying to drag 80,000 lbs of dead weight up a 45 degree ramp?

[@kdel9776]

Wow all day on that