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Texas Pond Part 2 - Getting a Bulldozer stuck

Well we decided to widen our pond and make it a bit bigger...

While digging out our new island, the dozer decided she was hot and wanted to go for a dip....while trying to "rock" her out..she ended up mudding the whole pond to a chocolate milk consistency..

Well we first tried to pull her out with a dodge truck...then we had to get help from a neighbor and with both a ford and dodge 4 wheel drive we got it to come out...thankfully it didn't die in the water or it would have been a bad day ha...but pond is bigger land is more level.....now just waiting for rain to fill it up.
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That could have got expensive FAST! Surprised trucks could get it out.


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When my pond was being dug in Summer '14, the D4 Cat dozer hit a freshwater seam about 3-4' while expanding to the east. It took the big trac hoe to keep it from sinking out of sight. Scared the hell out of the dozer operator.


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Somewhere on here there is a pic of a medium sized trac hoe stuck up to the roof in the mud of a pond redo.
















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Originally Posted By: ewest
Somewhere on here there is a pic of a medium sized trac hoe stuck up to the roof in the mud of a pond redo.


I bet that was a sight! I'd have like to have seen them dig that thing out of the ground....


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We got off lucky, 2 trucks were able to pull it out while they floored the gas on that dozer...it did come out...but made a huge mess of the pond...The pond was ridiculously muddy for about a week. I'm surprised if any of the fish survived...

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to get a dozer unstuck from a hole take two chains with slide pin hooks so the hooks come off chain take a oak tree about 18in around and long enough to go from track to track put chain one each end of tree on each track get on dozer hang on itys a ride but one it starts it goes I had my d6c straight up in air like itbwas taking off to space thought iyt was gfoingf to flip backword but than it just came on down on it tracks hard


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