Where's Nac?

denick

Anyone seen Nac? Last we saw he was drilling rock in New Jersey. I hope he didn't drill down to China.

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rino1494

I've seen him posting on another forum last week.

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Nac

Here I am. Just finished that rock job 660 Cy of rock ended up coming out. Had a couple of delays rain other jobs to do and I bought a hammer so that took a week to have the machine plumbed. Starting a new job on Monday a large addition on a house lots of underpinning and storm system. Also have a job in NYC this week drilling and splitting rock for a water main under an elevated train. The pipe contractor is not allowed to use any hammer because of the elevated train so the want me to drill and split. I am only doing the water main right now. If that goes good they will have me do ther sewer trench 12' deep 7' wide and that goes for several city blocks.

denick

Boy it's good to know your OK.

We could have imagined, you were drilling ledge with your new rig and you had to reposition yourself. There was some soft material under your tracks. As you started to drill again and were down about 9' the bit started to jam. When the torque of the drill put some pressure on the mast it started to pull the machine to the right and you went to swing to the left to take the pressure of the rig. Just then the soft material started to give way under the tracks and the machine started to slip into the hole. You stepped on the pedal to pull back away from the hole but you had positioned the machine with the idlers out front instead of behind you and what you thought was reverse was in reality forward. You pulled your hands and feet back in an effort to stop all the hydraulics. When you caught your breath and looked around the machine was more in the hole than out. It was then that you realized that you must have gotten the plans wrong because that house foundation that was 8' x 28' x 60' probably meant 8' deep 28' wide and 60' long. and you were now perched over the edge of a hole 8' wide and 28' long and 60' deep. Darn those narrow cabs that make you hold those plans sideways as you try to keep drilling production up and not take any breaks. With nothing but the end of the mast and the drill steel keeping you from careening over this precipice that you had unintentionally created in your fit of productive genius. You now realize that everyone has gone home thinking you were just going to work late to get some material ready for loading tomorrow. It is now just before sun down with no one to help untangle you from your predicament. You start to stand up to look around at what your footing is and the machine slips a little and you sit back in the comfortable seat of your new excavator. As you ponder what to do it dawns on you to apply down pressure with the boom, stick and drill mast and if need be, the drill steel and this time use the forward pedal to back out. You only hope you can get enough height to push your way back up out of the hole. As you start to implement your plan of attack you realize that the drill steel is wedged in the hole and it would have to be unstuck before you can go any farther. You need to go down to the end of the mast and see what the conditions are before you do to make sure you make the right moves. When your down there, there is a weird smell that you seem to know but can't identify. You decide to try reverse and then forward on the drill to see if you can break it loose. Just a little at a time. After a few tries the drill seems only to go forward free and bind when you try reversing it. You then decide to put your plan into action and hope that the steel breaks or bends as it goes out and you can pull back far enough to secure your rig. As you move the joysticks things start to go your way and then you put power to the drill motor and it starts to feed out and lift the machine. You only need a few feet to get out of the abyss. All of a sudden the bit starts to drill downward and into the rock like you had hit a soft seam. The machine again starts to slip downward you try the boom and stick but the weight of the machine is too much for the hydraulics. As the drill goes deeper you try to stop the feed but you can't. Suddenly you are aware that the smell that you caught a whiff of down in the hole is starting to envelope you in the cab. You look around and can't see anything. Then there is a terrific tug on the boom of the machine and you look down to see the drill bit break thru the rock formation and a blue green mist and liquid become visible. You suddenly recognized it as the same substance you saw on the nightly news program on New Jersey's toxic waste problems and illegal dumping. Could this be an underground waste dump tunnel you gasped? Just then there is a terrific groaning and blast as the toxic substance is united with abundant oxygen. You loose consciousness for what seems like only seconds. But you realize that someone was shaking you awake. Your guys have come to work that AM and found you asleep in the excavator. As you start to tell them what happened you saw there looks of disbelief. You get out of the machine and saw the blast had left a crater 60' long, 8' deep, and 28' wide with a large pile of broken rock in the bottom where the hole had been blocked up by the collapse of the rock formation!

Well it could have happened like that we thought. At least that's what Joe, said. Maybe

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Nick

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jmic

Oh My God, Nick are you going over the edge? Just kidding, when do you think you can come up with a sequel to that. That was more exciting than reading my old Hardy Boys collection.

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Nac

Nick how do you come up with your stories?

denick

STORY!!!, is that or is that not how the job went Nac? I don't think the guy's on this site would just come up with something like this to be telling stories!! Joe is a man I would trust in what he say's.

Come on Nac, tell us how that job really went!!!

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Nick

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving" Albert Einstein