Can We Recover This 75,000 POUND Excavator?
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2023
- Some of our towing friends called for help in recovering a Kobelco SK260 excavator that was buried in mud on a demolition site. We took our @NRCIndustries 50 ton rotator to work with the Keller boys in muscling this beast out of the sink hole.
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Don't know what possessed him to drive the machine in there when he could easily reach anywhere on the lot from almost across the street
Plus that machine is over kill for that job
Not 100% sure... The operator that ran the excavator during the recovery was not the same one that got it stuck.
Guessing it would only have been to get back far enough to load trucks with that arm. No other reason to be there and not really a good one even then.
Lol not sure why they needed a long reach on a lot 😂
@@gliderider7077 exactly:)
The excavator boom should be pushing down and pulling in on the other side to try and assist lifting out the buried track.
Can't with that grapple attachment, it has no strength it's just dangling, and you would rip all the hydraulic hoses off with it.
a that’s why your there…to tell them what to do…..no hurry up and get there before they are done
That's the last thing you want to attempt to do, especially with that extra couterweight & those skinny demo-spec tracks...Machine came out clean, no damaged panels, they did a good job.
@@greatunz67 The grab isnt dangling, its connected to the bucket linkage. Though indeed a long front digger lacks the crowd force of a standard excavator, required to pull itself out.
Long Reaches, boom and crowd would bend very easy trying what you suggest.
These guys are top notch, very professional, and always make it happen!! Special thanks goes out to Tyler and the crew, much appreciated!
Thanks, Sean! Glad to have you as a RUclips promoter, and a customer!
Some contractors are even more professional, just so you know
One of the best videos yet. Multiple camera angles, very well shot. FINALLY, the views are starting to show it!!!!
Thank you! The video sure seems to be sparking conversation 👍🏻
You guys made that look easy. Great job team!
Thank you! The proper rigging and each operator working together makes recoveries like this go smooth.
All that mud, and the wrecker came away spotless. 😀🇺🇸🇬🇧
The cable was a little bit muddy haha!
Great video. No music. Just machines working.
Thank you! We try to make the videos to keep people's attention and not get boring 👍🏻
Just found your channel great video. He was really buried. Like watching the rotator work. Going to binge watch today to catch up on RUclips videos. Thanks for sharing with us
Thank you, glad you found us too! Hope you enjoy the other videos just as much 👍🏻
Great work guys, very professional!
Thank you!
Great job nice recovery very professional
At the 11:00 mark he was no longer stuck.
That machine was far too large for that job.
Good planning and communication come together for a successful recovery.
Awesome setup! cool to see
Thank you!
That excavator! Were they building an 'iceberg' house with 4 basement floors? 😂Your rig is amazing, thank God people like you are around to help.
Thank you! We have a bigger one arriving this summer 👍🏻
@@WilcoxGarageRecovery m100?
@@daleborkholder715 No, we don't quite have $1.5 Million lying around 😂 Our new one is going to be a 65ton NRC
Reminds me of children's book Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel. About a steam Shovel stuck in basement hole. Enjoy your videos.
Yes, very similar - that's quite the old book, too! We enjoy making the videos, so we're glad others enjoy them also. Thanks for watching!
I was wondering if somebody would comment that! I have read that story on many, many occasions to my 3 year old.
I'm 60 good book
@@retro_grade I just did before I read the others. Was my favourite book, still have it, and I’m 70 now. Damn!!
and they turned the steam shovel into the furnace for the building and made his operator the janitor to keep him company. right?
Tricky recovery…well done guys 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed watching 👍🏻
You are so brainwashed it is sickening !
Wow, you guys did a great job!
Thank you!
That was an expensive lesson for the excavator owner. The long reach boom was definitely not the best option for that job. Great video, just the same!
Thank you!
Nice video, just found you guys. Am subbing. Also like Sumter wrecker. Ron isn't the only one out there.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video! We try to keep them interesting while not being too long.
Great job guys ! 👍
Thank you!
Awesome job on the recovery but man whoever decide they needed a long reach for that is nuts. Made that job 3x harder
Thank you! Yeah, we don't know the reasoning behind it, but it was fun to pull it out!
No Mats! *sigh* He may not have a smaller excavator but not wood mats he gets to pay for. Even looks like he tore out some sidewalk that wasn't necessary. If the operator is reading this I would suggest watching Letsdig18 work ponds using mats and how they can be used to not damage a sidewalk.
Good recovery.
Thanks!
Yep, you can tell the company doing this work and the operator had no clue what they were doing.
If I remember correctly, Letsdig18 also recovered an excavator which was even more stuck, just with a smaller excavator and mats. This here is more a brute force approach, just pulling the thing through the mud. Like Archimede: if you have a fixed point ...
Makes you wonder why they had to take a long reach excavator into the dirt in the first place!? Was a real test for the rotator, good job as usual WG take care see you next time!
I was wondering that myself. A Kobelco SK290 is too big for the lot. Should of used a Kobelco SK210 max for a lot this size. No reason I can see why the operator couldn't get himself unstuck, inexperienced maybe.
There was a house that was torn down days prior. We're assuming it was parked there until being transported to the next job. Rain came in the day before, which made it sink? Not 100% sure if thats what happened, but it's our best guess.
@@WilcoxGarageRecovery was it a sky scraper that was torn down?
Because I've seen much larger commercial buildings torn down and NEVER need a long reach to do it.
@@35manning Don't 100% know, we never saw the building, but gonna say no sky scraper 😂
Might be a little overkill. I usually rip down houses with out little cat 308!
very professional driver at that Kobelco :D :D :D :D
Well he sure did a good job of getting it in there. And yall did an even better job getting him back out.well done!
Thank you!
First time viewer & 35 year operator and that was a great recovery job!
Thank you!
Great recovery 👍
Thank you!
Very safe and professional. Great job. Like others I too am baffled why they used such a huge machine for such a small plot, it’s nearly as big as the plot itself!
Thank you!
Great job!!
Thanks!
Another night of rain and that would have really been big headache . Great recovery . Great video .
Thanks! And yes, more rain would have definitely made it worse.
I have seen it to the end in the Netherlands. Thank you for your video work.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Wow!! That was a Project. G
...and then one guy said, "hey let's try throwing some wooden pallettes under the tracks maybe" and OSHA immediately was onsite to fine them for undercutting the three full shifts needed to pull a backhoe out of a quarter acre foundation
full pull! nice job.
Very interesting.
Thank you
Thank you!
wow, i didn't think it looked that stuck, but man that was seriously stuck! dirt was more liquid than solid!
Yeah, all the rain from the day before certainly did not help the situation. Thanks for watching!
Well that was a quick thousand dollars great job
Great camera work 👍🙂
Thank you!
Bonjour des supers pros Bravo les dépanneurs
Chris at Letsdig18 has a incredible talent getting excavators out of some horrible circumstances 😅
Chris could have drove that sucker out of that little ole hole. 🤘
Good thing for us that Chris wasn't here then 😂
And he has mentioned before that a long reach has no power to pull itself !
Nice recovery from the muck!
This is impressive congrats team!!!
Thank you! It was a fun job for sure 👍🏻
I’d be pissed if someone undermined my garage like that
Difficult to see from the video whether the crack in the wall is fresh, but...
Excavator greetings from the Netherlands
That driver was almost determined to get him some cables.
Great job guys, well done. And looking at the condition of the sidewalk i guess the local authority/state aren't going to be happy. Here in the UK, i guess the same there, the repair bill would be massive.
Thank you! Yeah, not too sure what will be done about that. We certainly did not want the tow trucks to make and damage to the roadway.
Nice job guys say safe
Thank you!
Amazing my friend good2 👍
Thank you!
Well done for getting the machine out, but who in there right mind would put a machine of that size and weight on a little residential job like this one. I would say the cost of the ground works have gone through the room looking at the condition of the site now. 🥺🥺
Not sure why he didn't just swing 180 degree's to the garage and push himself out. Has enough power for that. At least 1 operator (Wilcox Garage) knows what there doing. Good Job.
From the start, the tail of the excavator was sunk in on the low side. Once we got him to a position where he could swing, it was just as easy to keep winching.
@@WilcoxGarageRecovery the operator (contractor) of the excavator had the ability to swing his boom 180 degree's and push himself out. Sink hole or not this excavator (290) has the power to do that. Your services would not had been necessarily if the contractor had a knowledgeable operator to begin with. A 290 excavator is too big for that lot & no reason it was in the dirt to begin with. It has enough reach to do anything right from the street. Which is why I complimented you (Wilcox Garage) at least you all know what your doing.
Daryl Cleavenger 2-3 mats would work
. @edpoints1127 A couple of timber mats would have prevented this in the first place. We've successfully moved excavators and other equipment of all sizes across tidal flats during low tide.
And I thought my guys at our excavation company did stupid stuff, now I don’t feel so bad
We've all been there in way way or another. Even us towing guys have gotten ourselves into predicaments!
The boom should be to the left of the lines. Dug myself out of a few quagmire. Lol
That really couldn’t have gone any better. A track under mud might as well be a concrete block. I’m sure she is at least 30 tonne by the extra counterweight on the top. And a long reach with a grab really isn’t getting itself out. I hope it is a really light wooden house, because that ground is only good for a fish pond. :D
and you are even worse !
Nice job.
Thank you!
When the new guy tries to impress the boss!!!😂
Someone should have called Chris Letsdig18 on RUclips.
He looks like he sure gets into some jobs very similar, if not worse, than this!
nice work
Thank you!
That was a well planned machine extraction using mechanical advantage faultless communication and teamwork
It sure was! It worked perfectly as planned, which is always the best outcome!
Nice job
Thank you!
Great work by the app haulers. The video is excellently made. The excavator seems to me to be much too big for this small construction site. And why is the driver driving into the excavation pit at all?
In the USA you have super Apscheppp vehicles! I live in Switzerland. Our vehicles are not that big. How many horsepower does the big one have? Great color with the green.
Thank you for your work and for uploading the video.
Greetings from Switzerland🇨🇭 to 🇺🇸.
Written with Google translator😃.
Thank you! We are not sure why they had such a large excavator on the site.
The green and white truck is a 2018 Kenworth with a 50 ton rotator. It has a 565 horsepower Cummins motor. This truck is small in comparison to a lot of others. We have a new, bigger one being built for delivery this summer! Thanks for watching - glad you enjoyed the video! 🇺🇸👋🇨🇭
Long reach was the wrong tool for the job there lol. Nice work on the recovery.
Thank you! Still don't know what the reason for the long reach was
45 years owning an operating heavy equipment... My company owns everything from a 303.5 cr track hoe to a 330 f long reach track hoe..good operator Could have easily got himself out of this Position... He obviously doesn't have a clue. Long reach track hoe's are specifically made to be able to reach themselves out Of a lot deeper positions than this... They actually make snorkel kits for intake and exhaust... Dredging river beds. Happens all the time... Common occurrence when dredging... In shallow water where you can't see the bottom.!
Wild guess, but the fed-up looking guy in the orange hoody... the original operator? 🤣
Sure 😂
I'm no expert excavator operator, but think a few crane matts would've kept it on top of the muck. 🤔😃
Long Reach makes sense on that site. Can sit in one spot and demo the house and load trucks parked on the street. No overhead obstructions.
Nice job guys .but as per the operator off the escavator don't know what to say i would have the machine unstuck by my self😅
dig it out first, your wreaking your gear,...😎💯✌spin it around an push yourself out..
Excavator guy shows up at a picnic with an elephant...such a big boom.
Crazy.
I wonder about the comments about the wrong size excavator and that recovery by tow truck would not have been mandatory.
Everyone is free to use a larger and available device, especially for the demolition of the upper floors a longer version can be useful.
There is no shame in getting help before you damage the excavator in your own recovery attempts.
By the way, my first thought was that this would be a good job for the legendary Al Quiring.
Thank you, that was one of the more intelligent, thoughtful comments we've had! The machine looked fairly new and not all torn up, so correct, why not pay someone to help safely get a several hundred thousand dollar machine out? As far as the demo side of things, we have no expertise in that field. Maybe the machine was closer to this site and it logistically made more sense to bring in the large machine vs. a smaller one. Who knows 🤷♂️
Good old al
Good job recovery drivers..l.that operator is a goof. Move that bucket to the machines left and put down pressure on it to lift that lower track there by giving the right track more purchase.
Thank you!
Times like this is when an M1 Abrams tank is needed to drag it out. 😂
Nope M88 needed ;-)
letsdig18 coulda got that out easypeasy.......let the arm do the work~!
Hopefully they were doing a house demo with that long reach on a lot 😮.
Yes, the house had already been demolished a day or so before
I’m pretty sure a real excavator operator could have gotten himself out with out a tow truck.
Jeeeeeeze that thing was stuck good.
Yeah, the mud really swallowed it!
12:54 at that point extending the boom all straight forward would have lifted the butt up.
Add some communication from the head sets next time. Fans want to hear the comms. Nice Work!
Thought about that after the fact, which it would have been fairly simple to hook a mic setup to them. Thanks for the feedback!
Wondering why operator is spinning the right track so much. I think I would have put the boom out the left side of the machine and tried to push and lift the left side up a little out of the mud. Like someone said what are they doing with a long boom there in the first place.
Glad there were no utilities next to sidewalk
I like to imagine it's like a CALL OF DUTY lobby within those headsets.
Honestly, thats about the best comparison of it! You can also kinda choose how much background noise you want to hear , really on preference.
That’s Dug in like in Alabama tick 😂
Looks like a new machine, maybe just didn't want mess up the cab and body.
Regarding the excavator.....who was the idiot that brought a Long. Arm machine into this job .? Probably the same genius that got it stuck !
LetsDig18 would have gotten this out without a tow--his videos where he unsticks excavators other people have gotten stuck are some of his best. Of course he wouldn't have used a long reach either--that was the first thing I noticed and apparently a lot of other folks here saw that too.
I guess they didd't have time to wait on Chris 😂
That escalator is a little overkill for that neighborhood
Advanced demolition nooooo noooo call Steve Rauch inc 😂😂
It's clear to see how that operator got it stuck in the first place
It's a litle muddy from my side =)
Only thing missing in your video was the dozen or so wide eyed little neighbourhood boys watching you guys pull that thing out of the mud 😹😸
guess you were in the Senior citizens quarter ? and you got it out with a lot less shenanigans than Dave Sparks and his crew ever could 😸😺/ nice work 👍
Thank you, and we must have been! If you look in the video close enough, I think you can see an older lady watching from her screen door at the back corner of the excavator. Dave Sparks sure knows how to have his share of fun though too 😂
When you rent a long arm excavator and sink it because you lack operator skills. Great job getting it out!
Crazzyyyy
Crawlin out of the basement
Quite literally, yes 😂👍🏻
That job was a home demolition which would explain why it was a long reach excavator with a grapple. I'm not sure why they drove it that far into the lot, but that's a different story.
That machine would chew a house and foundation up in a hurry! Although we didn't ask, our thought was that the house was torn down a day or so prior, and it was left parked there until it was supposed to be picked up. We had a day full of rain the day before, so maybe it got stuck then once the ground was saturated. Still, not 100% sure...
@@WilcoxGarageRecovery you are very diplomatic in your replies, client confidentiality and all that. Or as Manuel in Fawlty Towers tv programme once said “ I know nothing” . Some may suggest that you know everything there is to know about what happened also when, why, and how . But the client wishes it to remain private as much as is possible. If I went to deal with a police job (let’s say for arguments sake) no one would get any info out of me about it except on a need to know basis. All the best from England, was a good film.
@@TheGrimReaper1 Thank you! We were hired by the other towing company for help, so we truly did not get all the details of the "why and how" the excavator was in the predicament it was in. But yes, client confidentiality is important...and unfortunately when we're hired is usually someone else's bad day. We would rather focus on showcasing our services rather than explaining all the mistakes of others.
Should have called Letsdig 18, Chris would have drove it out!!!
Guessing he found the hidden cesspool. Don't think they're gonna be building anything on that mess for awhile.
Enjoyed the video apart from the annoying repetitive noise in the background disguised as music. I don’t understand why it was deemed necessary, I would much rather hear the machines. Thank you very much for uploading.😁👍🇦🇺
You tell him how bad his taste is in music. Crybaby
@@kubota33 😂😂😂😂
Thats impressive...........He put everything he had into sinking it making it worth the recovery fee 🤣
😂😂😂
I’ve seen this story before. A monster follows the excavator out of the ground and destroys Gotham City.
Must have been a spring under thathouse.
We got a joke in the concrete mixer world
“Soft Ground Services
You got it? We’ll find it.”
I’ve literally been pulled out by a rotator twice in 3 days. It happens.
We've pulled out several mixers as well 😂
@@WilcoxGarageRecovery the owner of the company sat me down the day after the second sinking and explained that my dad had set a lot of records in the 80s and 90s in loads and yards and sales… and I would have the honor of holding the record for the most tow outs in the shortest period of time 🤦🏼♂️
@@idiotsavant7276 😂😂😂