oopsie...

[Andy R]

Batphone went off this morning whilst we were working on the roadside.."We need you to come and clear a path for a large 360 asap"

 

Managed to pull away from the job we were on and arrived on site to see what was needed. Some raisjng up etc to enable a big digger to rescue a little digger.

 

I shan't say the location to save the contractors blushes but a couple of you may recognise it.

 

"It's down here"

 

 

 

 

"Ah, I see it now...looks a bit sunken"

 

[Andy R]

"Oopsie daisy"

 

[Andy R]

The machine was fairly well sunk into the bund that is keeping the countless millions of gallons of water in a very large man-made river/lake. Downhill from the bund is a village a couple of miles away, within reach of the water without a doubt.

They will have to build a new dam the river side of the bund and re-inforce it before extracting the machine, things were well under way when we arrived there, haulage and machinery aplenty.

 

 

Anyway, on with our little contribution to the cause.

Raised up the Plain directly behind the sunken vessel to give enough clearance for rescue from the big daddy excavator.

 

 

 

 

Some light rasing of the poplars to the left and thorn to the right.

 

 

 

and large lower limb removed from poplar to the left of gateway.

 

 

 

"The rescuer"

 

[Johny Walker]

o,dear o,dear:bash::bash:

[Mozza]

Excellent thread, good pictures too, Its such a ball ache when things get stuck!!

[Tree Man Tom]

its good they got you to clear the way first, most company's like that i know would just clear the way with there digger bucket lol

[Andy R]

It is a national trust site mate, so they wouldn't wear that. It was the NT that contacted us first.

[garth mc garth]

ha ha quality, its a horrible feeling when the mud is coming thru the door and u cant slew round or pull yourself out. seen it happen counless times and had to recover people, even done it myself before.

good pics!

[Stephen Blair]

any juicy pics of the rescue:ohmy:

[White Noise]

Great Thread thanks for sharing .