2010 excavator games

[mickg]

don't try this at home

[mickg]

you mean like this Giles

[Mikey_C]

hey hasn't everyone rolled a 1.5T



if you look hard you can see a 3" wooden fence post going through the cab, it scrapped my back as I got launched out, on to my weeding ring finger that broke, two months before I got married.

still you live and learn

[GB_Groundworks]

mickg that guys a tool, working across his tracks like that, should have landed on him taught him a lesson think i posted it on another thread about not hiring machines out haha, mikey_c haha you pull that off the step on the root?

mine was nothing spectacular just slowly flopped over, onto the pile of spoil, just getting a video off my phone from today

wet day today bottomed trailer out in the mud, was to wet for other trick tried but got abit hairy haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXr8HE0zcvM



Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1282680590

[Mikey_C]

mikey_c haha you pull that off the step on the root?

indeed caught the bucket on unexpected resilient root, having balanced the 360 on the path because I was rushing.

[GB_Groundworks]

did you just set the arm to offset dig(so it would be sticking upright) and right it with a bit of body weight, done that before as well haha or crane/hiab etc?

[mickg]

you was very lucky there Mikey that the timber post did not do a lot more harm to you

ha ha nice one Giles

[Mikey_C]

with hindsight I could have righted it myself, but got the hire company to come and rescue me. chap used a 3T machine, asked if I wanted him to pull the tree stump out, it moved next doors lawn so we told him to stop. dug it out by hand

your right mick i was lucky, wife banned all heavy plant after that, had to rent another 1.5t when she was at her mothers for a week

[mickg]

did they charge you for any damage Mikey ?

[GB_Groundworks]

stuck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MZbwO42Kk

[Mikey_C]

no just their time (£60) at the extra fuel cost of bring out the 3t on low loader (£10)

[GB_Groundworks]

you could have righted it pretty easy with its own strength if it would run long enough on the deck, i hired one of those little tracked skip loaders, 500kg capacity, didnt tell me left track handle liked to stick, rolled it first load, just flicked it over with mini and gave it a spray with the hose, they don't need to know haha