The Question and Answer Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

I guess I'm not going to have the excavator until next week.

The neighbors got their 963 running, but it ended up stuck, so they called a friend with a large excavator. He was able to easily extract the dump truck and 963, but no joy on the backhoe. He spend hours digging around it and trying to pull it, but the suction and weight of the mud still sticking to the machine is some multiple of the machine's 16k lbs weight.

When the excavator gets here, I'm going to have to do a LOT of digging to get things drying out enough and get the excavator onto solid enough footing to pull the backhoe out.

At least the backhoe isn't full of water now.