Spring has sprung and the race to rebuild is on! Mammoth Lakes May 2023

Follow along with us in the race to rebuild Mammoth after a record setting winter. Projects are coming online the phones are ringing people need help rebuilding. Update on the swamped 308… we tried getting it out and made things worse now it won’t start. Hopefully we can get a wrecker over and drag it onto higher ground soon.
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[@pasad335]

That excavator could have a TV show of it's own, Stuck Ex's of Mammoth Lakes.

[@bbwachter]

GREAT IDEA I’ll watch, maybe I’ll get back up there for a baseball steak and beer.

[@MrThorp1]

I like all the videos but I absolutely keep watching for the mini ex. I thought they were gonna get it for a second

[@watchingpraying7763]

What a classic illustration of getting bogged down!!! Sooo sorry to see the mess. Wow.

[@briane173]

Heavy on the word "bogged." That's almost all forest detritus; if they wait until it dried out that rig would be there for half a year, and then it would get dry enough to become a tomb.

[@billdelap9757]

King Air is what the planes are

[@susangunn5866]

The situation with your equipment stuck in the mud gives me the giggles. Love Bud and Sadie.

[@DontStepInTheGrease]

The excavator stuck in the mud reminds me of how dinosaurs 🦕🦖 may have perished.

[@Mrbfgray]

8:00 felt that in my stomach silently cheering for extraction!

[@Mrbfgray]

((Owen could do it 😉))

[@bigjoesburgers]

Put some railway ties under those tracks to get that excavator out of that hole.

[@MrThorp1]

they make " poor mans filet" out of sirloin quit often. a lot of the pre packaged " filets" are just trimmed up sirloin. Looks like you got the ehem, MAMMOTH size. Thanks folks,, ill be here al week. lol

[@davedavis662]

Few logs laid horizontal would give you something to get up on.

[@billsrq1788]

Hello from Siesta Key Florida

[@sweetcreekcommunityco-op]

Could just grab you some of those downed trees and bridge your way out 🤔🤷‍♂️🤠👍

[@judycoyne7818]

What a royal mess of muddy water n dirty snow yet to melt!! Patience is needed here!!

[@ridged8]

I'd bring in another trackhoe, & clear all those mounds away, make channels for the water to flow away from the stuck machine. You want the stuck machine will be on high ground

[@BryanCates-ok3gn]

Haul a front end loader up and drag the excavator out of the mud

[@steveaumann6335]

excellent video 👍👍

[@dixiemae5042]

First from a rainy Florida ☔️

[@donwilliams7394]

So I see the solution for your excavator. You have logs in the background. Grab a few of the logs lift the front end up with bucket. Put under put weight on it spin it under then grab another and do same. Again and again till your out. Been there

[@eduardomontes1276]

When you raise the tracks, try to put some logs/wood under it, maybe that will help it to gain traction.

[@briane173]

You can't get your head around how big the Long Valley supervolcano is, nor how much tephra got blown out of that thing when it erupted. It's humbling.

[@ronroark9720]

Thanks for the shots of Twin Lakes. We spent over forty years in that campground and helped out at the store for several years, staying behind the store in our RV. Needless to say, we love the Mammoth area.

[@westho7314]

I remember the Winter & massive runoff in 1968-9, I was a coastal flatlander that left the south coast for the mountains that year, it was my first of 54 winters to come, living in the Sierras everywhere from Lee Vining to Lone Pine, after a winter such as '69, the village & county were strapped for labor, very short handed to handle the deluge from both the winter's snow load & then the massive late spring/ summer runoff, machines of that era were not very plentiful & very crude & unreliable by todays standards or non existent all together. A lot of hand shoveling during the winters snow & then re- directing the spring runoff around structures & downhill out & away from the village. Mammoth Lakes was a actually a village at that time with a permanent year round population of under 400. Not sure but I think Mammoth has about 2X the population of Bishop these days. Most the side streets & the few residential areas that did exist in 1969 were unpaved or light duty & quickly became washed out rushing creeks, mud bogs and swamps. Getting to where i lived in Old Mammoth could be a real task in the mud especially around the meadows, In winter cross country skis or show shoes were the best sensible mode of transport for getting to town. I can only imagine the logistical headaches these days especially on weekends with all the development, the traffic, impatient demanding & usually unprepared people. I am sure alot was gleened from this winter about building structures, placement of pipes and utilities, parking and where to put the snow that's being removed, as well as how to direct the runoff to prevent those new hazards & property damages. Definately a destination resort today, Though i left when the village population reached about 1000 residents, Did June lake which didn't change that much, but i changed as i got older and not so cold tolerant & headed for the valley below & the Southern Sierras where i been for the past 34 years. Hats off to you folks that keep the high country passible..It.s a massive task & workload, but with plenty of labor available and the modern machines used these days to make the unthinkable doable.

[@judycoyne7818]

Great comments @west ho!!

[@hoagybob]

Great job on these videos. A ton of work on top of the plowing and running a business. Thanks for posting and keeping us absentee folks up to date.

[@mattbrown7483]

You should set up a time lapse camera on that waterfall. It would be epic to watch the progression of the snowmelt and water rise.

[@alexreifschneider4332]

Benton crossing, a town out of the twilight zone.

[@steveunderwood336]

Dave Sparks and a couple of his guys could get that mini-ex out. He's all about helping fellow KZbinrs.

[@pmurphy12667]

keep the shots of twin lakes and benton crossing coming as we are scheduled to come in mid July. Snow should mostly be gone as far as the campgrounds..we hope.

[@bigdog0149]

Time to call HeavyD!!!

[@davestevens4263]

It looks all clear for the hotsprings, this Monday. I would live out there in a sec. Away from people.

[@Just_Joe71]

That's called a "baseball cut" sirloin.

[@woop2235]

Every time you show the excavator it’d be nice to hear the song “Stunk On You” 🎶🎶🎶 by Dave Fenley or Lionel Richie 😉

[@terryshutt1044]

you got logs right there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cut them to size, make a track matt your out

[@JohnMoncrief-ic9hp]

you do nice work

[@cherylsibson2529]

I was wondering if you'd use water barriers to help move the snow-water somehow use the water use barriers to direct where you want it to go, for gardens or for fighting future fires, up in Canada they are having a heck of a time fighting the fires, would be a shame to somehow take that snow-water, put it to some good use.

[@josephs8364]

Need to call letsdig to fly out there and get the excavator out lol. He’s had lots of experience

[@fionnbharre8389]

Maybe you should call Heavy D Sparks in for a removal, could be an epic show.... !!

[@Pompomgrenade]

😮 looks like hydrants are emptying out on streets...😅

[@grandadcrypto]

Stuck in the mud again. So now it will have to be pulled out.

[@sylviawelsh9518]

Sky crane can get your excavator out 🤪

[@skywatcherca]

You and your team SAVED the entire community! Wow, you folks are tough, as in TOUGH!! Great job: I hope that you don't see any new snow until next January. Oh yes, hope it's a hot (fire-free), but HOT summer for you guys.

[@francisdelaney2228]

You need to use those logs on the side there & between the bucket arm & logs, you should be able to bring the machine UP on top of the muck, instead of THROUGH the muck...just saying.

[@kensmith8832]

Ammonium nitrate will melt off the snow and ice without damaging the concrete.

[@unknownsender6852]

I bull-eve they call that sirloin 'baseball cut'.... Also wondering why you aren't dumping loads of aggregate on all that mud?

[@user-rp6nf9sz6t]

Butterfly that beef; MPSC, I need a list to order from; These guys seem somewhat evasive on that note. And that was not Owen, what did you do with him?

[@user-rp6nf9sz6t]

Ben what did that beef pack cost?

[@mademoisellekaya1438]

Why not take a loader, a cable and try and pull that excavator out? Maybe some tree trunks right in front of the tracks so they can bite into those and get traction to get up and over, together with the Loader..

[@7grammy3]

My summer cabin is on twin lakes #6. Any casualties back there? I'm sure you can't even get back there yet

[@nwbackcountry5327]

Free A/C!!

[@grandadcrypto]

What a disaster! How could anyone hose it up that bad? I’d put Owen in a tent and live out there until its out.

[@briane173]

I wouldn't blame Owen too much. Not a lot of experience with saturated forest detritus, and the sheer amount of snow has turned it into a bog. Knowing the bedrock there is all volcanic you can get a false sense of security out there. I'm betting he got in there and just started sinking without even moving just from the weight of the rig, and any attempt to grind his way out just sunk him in deeper. I know they're impatient to get that project going but they'd have been well advised to let the snow melt off and let the detritus dry out a little before putting heavy equipment in there.

[@chuckychuck]

Time to sell that excavator or trade it in, engine compartment sitting in mud, tracks been marinating in muck for 3 weeks now that machine need the help of that bulldozers,computer going be going of like fireworks, all those bearings and drivemotors on those tracks going to be sanding themselves apart from all that dirt gettingg inside.

[@Al-hf3iz]

How’d it get left in that hole before the weather hit?

[@rjwald44]

The airplanes are King Airs made by Beechcraft….

[@fluffydoodle1574]

You need a dozer to pull out that excavator imo. Even a large tow truck 50 ton or so.

[@njonebale7889]

If you’s flew me out there I can guarantee I’d have that 308 out in under five minutes… it’s apparent none of you’s are operators, I could see the guy working the levers and then taking his hands off to work the travel sticks…you’ll never as you have shown, will get out of a hole unless your using the travel pedals with your feet and pulling on the sticks at the same time to get you up and out of the mud hole. You should of brought that mini over and trenched it so the soup had somewhere to go, this way you could lower the water level and not killed the engine. Love your videos, but jeez they should never rent equipment to your squad…god forbid you bought it and destroyed the engine already.