CAT D6N stuck in some very soft muskeg that was placed during the winter. Working its way towards the edge of the area when it broke through the crust at the edge.
That stuff is the worst. I was getting 240 truckloads of "clean fill" a day to push out and grade, at Fresk Kills Landfill. Every now and then, dump truck drivers would try and sneak that "black goop" onto my active bank. The contractors would fill the truck with goop then put a bucket of clean fill on top. When the trucks pulled on the scale and lowered their tarp, the inspectors thought the load was all clean fill. You can get stuck in 3 feet of goop, because it fills your growsers, and takes away all traction. (Slowing you down just a little bogs down the whole operation.) After several back and forths with the inspector supervisor. The contractors were forced to take that goop and, A. Let it dry out somewhere. B. Throughly mix it with clean fill, so that it's no longer goop. Either way, I refuse to eff with it. BTW, I have covered bogs and swamps before. You just put a thuck layer right over the top, never messing with the goop itself. "Swamp Cats" are perfect for this. But they are not boats. One time we had "dredge material" come in (silt dredged from the bottom of a river). We had about 4 Caterpillar D6 LGPs stuck at the same time. The odd thing was that you could walk on this stuff all day, but it would not support a machine, even a Swamp Cat. We ended up diigging a huge hole, letting the trucks (Payhaulers) dump directly into the hole. Then covering the whole thing with garbage. Careful out there.
@reloadnorth7722
12 күн бұрын
Bah, that's not stuck, he's just testing soil compaction for the larger machines.
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