Mud

denick

There's been times I have asked myself "Why did God create mud? Is it because of something he new I was going to do?

Like the time I threw a track about 8:30 at night in the dark on a 225 Cat excavator. Quite mad I said "tomorrow it shouldn't take long" That machine Had to be on a job by 2 PM the next day. On the way home it started to drizzle. Overnight it rained a little. Got to the site early and there was light rain. The machine was in a gully and as we started to work on the track it started to rain hard. Well the rest I'll leave to your imagination. If you can think it, it happened in the mud that day.

What's your best mud story?


Nick

I knew I should have said best work mud story.

ron schenker

Crazy little bar downtown, a few too many margaritas, a 6ft.2 amazon lady, wrestling ring, you know the rest

Patty

So, Ron..... did ya whoop her butt?

ron schenker

No way, I'm a gentleman. I let her have her way with me

rino1494

Can't think of any off hand, but I have come to live with it. I have multiple pairs of boots in the truck to deal with mud and water. Just about everyday, I come home and my wife says, go change your clothes.

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PipeGuy

I stayed late one night to take a look at the stake out and make sure I didn't need anything else staked in the days ahead. Everyone else locked everything up and split.
The job was a muddy mess and it started to snow heavily. Then the sky turned a weird color and the lightning started. I hopped in the truck ('85 2WD F250 diesel w/utility body), started out of the job and promptly hung it up in a big tire rut. The lightning and snow was getting worse and the loader was about a 1/4 mile away (through the mud). The 225 was right there so I grabbed the 1/2" cable off the pipe hook, clipped one end in the pintle hook, the other on the hoe bucket and picked the truck by the tail, off all fours, and carried it out to the construction entrance.
The next morning the guys wanted to know why all the tools were piled up towards the front of the boxes.

Glasshousebltr

I was digging a garage foundation in the mud with a Kabota L48. Rolling with it and gettin her done when I realized I had dug completly around myself. I guess that wasn't my best day. My ditch was over 3 ft wide and over 48" deep, and there I was, stuck in the middle.

Using the loader and hoe at the same time, I walked the unit over the ditch like spiderman on Wonder Woman.....in the mud......talk about tricky

Bob

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Bob

K2

Send some mud my way. We're in the 5th year of a bad drought. It sucks having nice weather every single day!!!!

dayexco

we had to get an 8" pvc sanitary sewer across a low grassy area from one part of a housing development to feed the other part. close to 300' at about 9-12' deep. it was totally SLOP. we had to weld a steel plate on the front of our trench box to keep the mush from washing in, undercut the excavation where we started about 3', put in a slotted piece of 8" pvc vertically for a dewatering well casing, backfilled with pearock, dropped in a pump. we over excavated our sewer main ditch grade by approx 18", brought back to grade with 1" crushed/washed rock and used that for a french drain to try and get the water back to our casing we had installed. hauled in plenty of dry material for backfill to "seal" the mud from coming in the backside of the box. 4 days putting this little stretch in. it worked, but no fun at all

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