Had a D8 transmission cut out on a slope like that once. Nothing else there to pull it out. Put the ripper down to hold the back end and kept picking the blade up and down. Enough movement that the machine would move down hill when the tracks were off the ground then the blade would move down hill when it was picked up. Once it was pointed down hill, the transmission would engage.
@LyssaGagne because when you've got worn out rails that will come off so easy, you can't walk it on a slope because you will be putting tracks back on
@matthewbattenfelder9 it's hard to swim in mud which is what it was when the komatsu went down, good old river mud. the front glass caved in and held the track controls, they were running under the mud, the mud was over the key and he couldn't cut it off, when he stepped out, the track almost pulled him under the machine, that would have been fatal.........
@lynette1953 if you're talking about the komatsu excavator, that was just a big hole that had filled in with silt over time and was very soft, when it went down, it went down
Nice vid! Waters the great equalizer in all of life situations. I want nothing to due with mud in a work situation, just when I screwing around. Swamp Loggers fills my machine-mud quote quite nicely.
Nice job get the dozer going again. Did you see one of Chris's recent vids with the Komatsu dozing? He had it on a pretty steep grade.
What do you mean by the transmission cutting out why does it do that
IH2016 1 week ago
how the fuck did that operator get that excavator stuck in that pit? hope he got fired he probably water locked the engine
sombersolitude 2 months ago
Had a D8 transmission cut out on a slope like that once. Nothing else there to pull it out. Put the ripper down to hold the back end and kept picking the blade up and down. Enough movement that the machine would move down hill when the tracks were off the ground then the blade would move down hill when it was picked up. Once it was pointed down hill, the transmission would engage.
2ftrmike 2 months ago
a real operator knows when to stop. dumb asses go one step farther
1931tim 6 months ago
If you are not an operator by the time you get to the swamp, it will make you one by the time you are done there.
Michaelgrammer89 7 months ago
@Michaelgrammer89 people who think they can operate heavy equipment the best in the world fall flat on their face in the swamp, very well said
BradyHill1 7 months ago
why would you try to pull out the dozer with your tracks sideways you got more power if you keep the parelle to the dozer
LyssaGagne 7 months ago
@LyssaGagne because when you've got worn out rails that will come off so easy, you can't walk it on a slope because you will be putting tracks back on
BradyHill1 7 months ago
fatal? cant swim
matthewbattenfelder9 1 year ago
@matthewbattenfelder9 it's hard to swim in mud which is what it was when the komatsu went down, good old river mud. the front glass caved in and held the track controls, they were running under the mud, the mud was over the key and he couldn't cut it off, when he stepped out, the track almost pulled him under the machine, that would have been fatal.........
BradyHill1 1 year ago
now, was that just a sink hole?
lynette1953 1 year ago
@lynette1953 the one with the matsu stuck in it
lynette1953 1 year ago
@lynette1953 if you're talking about the komatsu excavator, that was just a big hole that had filled in with silt over time and was very soft, when it went down, it went down
BradyHill1 1 year ago
@lynette1953 we think it was an old hole that was filled with silt
BradyHill1 1 year ago
Nice vid! Waters the great equalizer in all of life situations. I want nothing to due with mud in a work situation, just when I screwing around. Swamp Loggers fills my machine-mud quote quite nicely.
Nice job get the dozer going again. Did you see one of Chris's recent vids with the Komatsu dozing? He had it on a pretty steep grade.
Xx69roadrunnerxX 1 year ago
@Xx69roadrunnerxX The swamp is my home with heavy equipment, that's why I've been so busy even with the bad economy,
yes I saw chris on that slope, my lgp d4 will work pretty good on slopes too, this narrow track machine in this video is not for slopes nor for mud
BradyHill1 1 year ago