Re: LISTEN TO THIS STORY! ITS TRUE AND JUST HAPPENED!!!!

Posted by 10-20 guy on June 26, 2001 at 09:48:34 from (152.163.195.203):

In Reply to: LISTEN TO THIS STORY! ITS TRUE AND JUST HAPPENED!!!! posted by ThatOtherGuy on June 25, 2001 at 11:17:59:

Here is a good one that many of you will get a kick out of!!!! My grandpa leased off his farm and retired back on the 60s. On his place there was a spot along at the bottom end of a hillside (a real low hill) and if he ran over that spot more than a time of two it turned into quicksand and whatever he was driving would sink to the frame.It didn't take long to realise that one pass in that area was enough! I don't remember that area ever flooding though. Any way when the $#@&* developers came in to build a "shopping mall"They sent in a crew with earthmovers and bulldozers to level off the area to build on. Guess what!!!!! They found the quicksand patch with a VERY big Caterpiller and it sank like a rock up to the seat! I was a kid back then but I think it may have been a D9,D12 or bigger.I really don't remember now what size but it was a big one! We all went over there to watch them try to pull that thing out and it was like a circus! They had 2 semi size wreckers and very heavy block and tackle set ups running between the large trees that were near by. I remember those semi wreckers pulling and the front wheels raised off the ground several feet and a poor slob sitting in the "soup" on the cat running the thing down to china. By the time we left there was not much of the cat showing above ground!!!! They got it out by digging a hole near it and pumping out the water that came in until the water table dropped. Then they had to dig out the cat.I remember someone joking that they were going to cut off the exhaust stack and pave it over!!! I still laugh about that whole thing to this day! That is what they get for ruining good land with black top and bricks.

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