rescue excavator challenge

Dupont

is anyone heading to it. there trying to rescue a digger that sunk in 92:eek: should be a bita craic and its for a good cause.

kay 9

Where & when's it on? Where does it need rescuing from lol, might be interested.

Dupont

http://charityexcavatorchallenge.com/

its on 2nd and 3rd somwhere around belturbet ballyconnell. trying to raise a 30 tonne digger from a boottomless bog ,it sank while dredging. look at the pictures on the web site ya can only see the jib:eek:

redzerologhlen

Sounds like great craic!! Vander should know this lad, took a fair bit of rescuing and he wasnt gone half as much

kay 9

Should be interesting alright to see it. What makes it even better is that the machine stuck is not able to pull itself. There was a few machines lost in Derrybrien when they did the windmills I think.

pakalasa

There was an article about this in last weeks Journal. If it's the same one.
I'd love to see it. My kinda thing...:D A bit too far North for me though.
Must be a right sickner to have something like this happen to ya.

yellow50HX

heard a story about an excuvator sinking when working at the back of the the old food factory in midleton co cork back in 70's. The driver noticed the tracks were starting to sink into a boggy spot and couldnt shift it so decided to go for help. As this was well before mobile phones he wandered back down to the factory to ring for back up. While he was waiting the digger keep sinking a few hours later when help arrived all that was left was a pool of water with the jib sticking out. It was quite close to the railway track so they aperently had to drive a crane up the track to lift it out. The big problem with lifting anything from a bog is the sucion pulling it back down so apperently there was a lot of lads standing around with wavin pipes pushing them into the pool to revive the trapped air.

If only there were video phones in those days...lol

bbam

I've seen the digger they're going to try and rescue. If you cruise in the river it's not far from the riverbank.

They'll have their work cut out as its been down for so long it
Must be well grown in through. It looked like there was about 6-8 ft left above ground.

Another issue could be the weather. If it turns out wet on the day it will be worse and it's a pretty isolated spot for spectators if the weather is bad.

Hope it goes well, they'll probably be some you tube footage after the event.

Dupont

it says on the website that were it sank used to be a lake way back before it was filled in

snowman707

and if they need any advise tell them come to the midwest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfaEwspJjw8&feature=related