Workers watch to see if a track hoe and a CAT bulldozer can combine their efforts to pull this 40-ton rock truck out of the mud and water, after it fell through the ice on a large slough north of Hume on Feb. 1.
Workers watch to see if a track hoe and a CAT bulldozer can combine their efforts to pull this 40-ton rock truck out of the mud and water, after it fell through the ice on a large slough north of Hume on Feb. 1. The slough was left over from the flood of 2011; with the mild weather there was about two feet of ice where it broke through, while just nearby the ice was only eight inches thick. When loaded, this truck weighs 100,000 pounds. It took the contractor eight days to get this truck and an excavator out of the ice; the excavator went through the ice after it went out to try and rescue this truck.
