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Axle deep mud
The gaffer of the company I'm working for got stuck, then I got stuck, then the telehandler that came to pull me out got stuck too.
We all knew that soft bit was there - it had the gravitational pull of a Black Hole ffs
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I'd have suggested tractor tyres, but presumably that's what the telehandler had? In which case caterpillar tracks!
That's some good mud
Caterpillar tracks it was - the next day, when the 13 tonne excavator came to drag me and the telehandler out
And tomorrow they're sending a crane to lift out the excavator
I don't know why - perhaps they'll die
Not a lot of room to manoeuvre in there, either! Bugger of a place to get stuck. 😀
Could have done with one of these:
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OT- They've got a new one now- I heard the old one ended up in south america somewhere, working, it got sold when the garage changed owners. Think it's class that they've done a tribute!
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When everyone with tyres gets stuck bring in the tracks....
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The BV owner/driver is a certain bus/truck mechanic of this parish 🙂
Some pics of me in Lordswood (yes, Lordswood!) a couple of years ago
These "softroaders" aren't up to much are they?
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*ninja edit.
Ooops, is that next to the M4 near Reading?
cant beat a good sinkhole.
Once was topping a rape stubble field. Flying through the field at 20mph, thought Id just trim the thistle patch in the middle of the field. I wonder why there's a thistle patch in the middle of the field?
Cue, me and tractor dropping straight down 3 ft, but going fast enough to hit the other side of the sink hole and fly back up out again. I bang my head on the cab of the tractor, nearly lose conciousness.
On close inspection of the tractor there's a 3ft high sloppy high tide mark along the length of it.
[i]Ah, yes, Stoner. We "forgot" to tell you about the sink hole didnt we...[/i]