I Have Never Seen A Dozer THIS Stuck Before *INSANE RECOVERY*

That was my grandpa's dozer he used to own the land, it got washed away in a flood. It would be awesome if I could get a hold of you guys so he can tell you about it. Edit: my grandpa said the dozer is a 1H it's a hand clutch cable dozer. The flood happened in 2010. The dozer was in the field and the flood washed out the field, the dozer, and the cabin that was there.

"I'm just going to sit back and watch." Immediately cuts to the next frame of him helping out. Classic country lad.

Dave is living my dream life. Trucks, recoveries, and just having fun with interesting projects. Love it!

For future reference, most if not all dozers have some kind of final drive that the rear sprocket mounts too. If you take the cap and planetary gears out of that final drive the dozer or excavator should move as if in neutral. The final drive and seals on most really stuck pieces of equipment would probably need to be cleaned and resealed anyway.

Heavy D, just some recommendations from a guy that has done some heavy recovery, did some off road recovery and worked in the crane and hoist industry. Use you kinetic rope between the winch line and stuck equipment, to use kinetic force to break it free. Load the winch lines and let the rope do its job. Instead of beating the crap out of your equipment. As per your winch line you may want to think hard on a wedge socket instead of wire rope clips. As per using the excavator as an anchor, I would be hooking around the turn table as that is the strongest points and a large radius for your kinetic rope or a wire rope sling around. Have you guys thought about adding a set of hydraulic stiff legs of the back of the military wrecker to help make the recoveries more easier? Love the channel and the content you share, keep up the great job everyone is doing on the channel. As I said these are just so ideas that may help, too speed up a recovery. “Work smart not hard” 🍻

When it comes to cable clamps, think of the saying "never saddle a dead horse". The U bolt always goes on the dead (short) end and the saddle on the live (long) end. For 1/2 to 9/16 three clamps should be used. 3/4 and up four clamps should be used. obtain torque specs from manufacturer. Install (do not over tight) apply light pull and re-check torque. A good job for someone when everything is back at the shop. I hope you next truck has a 30 ton knuckle boom! Great video!

I must love HeavyDSparks' videos of recoveries, because I watch these shows all the time. Wounded Warrior Vietnam Veteran here. You are good people! Keep up the amazing work.

This is insane! The previous video where you guys helped your neighbor after his shop caught fire. Getting him the block and sand,cement was the nicest thing I have ever seen. I saw you on AWP site helping recover people in cars under water. You are the best!!!!

I just love how the Children are still being happy and playing, but are disciplined enough to keep out of the way and stay safe. Well done to ALL the Adults that shows them proper guidance. BTW Diesel Dave is the funniest.

A buddy had one looking like that on a logging haul here in WV. I used my Jeep to winch his rear winch cable out. We hooked to a tree, and we almost got cut in half with the cable breaking. It couldn't winch itself out, eventually he got a hoe to dig it out. I have underground mine foreman papers back east , and ran DC locomotives underground as an equipment mover for a while, (CDL-A here too), and men have been killed by cables. I've seen you break a few lately, and I implore you to clear a larger safe area before pulling. The line of fire for those pulls can launch a hook or snatch block in many random directions, and could strike someone in the head. When possible use the synthetics. When pulling steel, run and hide before pulling. I cringe when guys in the videos are only 30 feet away from the pull, and somewhat inline. They're in the death zone. Like being on the set of a Baldwin production. But I'm sure you know all that.

Another impossible recovery ( for anyone else) Dave takes on anything and does it with style and it's cleaning up the environment at the same time!!

I hope you guys know that you have one amazing job. You play with all the machinery we all want to play with since we were kids. AND you can recover other cool machines. Just for comparison. I sit all day in a leather chair in font of my computer at home to make a living. It is good money for the most comfortable work. But since I haven't seen a regular workplace since covid began this look like the coolest thing like sliced bread to me. Thanks for the great content from Spain.

Love what you and the Team do ... much respect. Just a suggestion from an old "Railroad Derailment Guy" ... given your usual locations, the one piece of equipment you're missing is what we had ... a simple "Auger". You'd be surprised just how much pull you get from a telephone pole slant drilled into the Earth. Enough snatch blocks and pole buried 12 ft is an amazing anchor point ... you're welcome.

There was an old military tank found in a nearby forest (actually it was a self propelled howitzer - that looked like a tank but wasn't actually). It was completely buried underground, except for a metal spike and the hole the people who found it had dug to try to figure out what it was. Anyway, when they "pulled" it out they didn't want to damage the potentially historic machine, so what they did was completely dig around it. After a couple of hours, (with a similar excavator to in the video), it was basically teetering on a pile of dirt. They even dug a smooth earthen ramp for the machine to slide up, out of the hole on. When they hooked up the cables and pulled, even though the track was completely rusted solid and not rotating at all, there were no broken parts, no snapped cables, no broken chains, etc. It just slowly came out all the way. With a bit more digging I expect that dozer could have been extracted without being pulled apart. Also you really shouldn't pull with that much force on an axle housing. These might look beefy but axle housings can be bent and can also be ripped out if the force is high enough. It is much safer to park the truck on level ground and pull using the frame. If you spread the load equally between the two frame rails you can pull with incredible amounts of force without damaging the vehicle. On the other hand, maybe they wanted the dozer to split and axle housing to bend. It probably improves the number of YouTube views...

Heavy D I built a great truck that is now well known in my area of Alaska. It was a 8 wheel drive Oskosk, with a 1946 Mack cab with a 1963 sleeper, outfitted with 4 rear 100,000 lbs winches and a moose guard up front. Powered with the most bad ass Detroit Desiel engine with several gear boxes and a 16 speed tranny. It is known as Meat and Potatoes. It has all the bells and whistles that I need for my operations. It took 4 years to built and many hours of work , but now it's done and all of the bugs out. I don't plan to go on line with my own channel however it deserves bragging rights. Your equipment and crew are great at your efforts and I have following you and Matt's Towing. So thanks to all of you showing what the younger generation can achieve and I hope that all of you are fine. Best wishes from Gramps in the deep south of the far north.

I find the Heavy Rigging, and Heavy Machinery , episodes very enjoyable. In Construction/ Power Sector, for 40 yrs . Loved Big Lifts and Mobilizing / Demobilizing Super Heavy Equipment . We lifted Steam Headers that weighed ......Alot. Sometimes 3- 4 Cranes lifting at the same time . Smallest being 150 ton with a basket to jump the rigging with ,going out with the old and after prep, in with the new fit and weld out .I was a Code Welder for 20 yrs . Loved that shit ! I was a Regional Manager and had some excellent Riggers and Craftsman . Got Cancer , retired me . I'm disabled now ,but man would I love to still be doing your kind of stuff. Love the Blog ! You All are some Great Guys and I like how you help people out and do the right thing for the environment 👍 I can tell there is alot of Commeraderie between all of you guys and that's what's impressive as well .Thanks for the ride along !!!

Hey Dave, When repairing a hook on a winch wire rope, remember " Never saddle a dead horse" the saddle of a cable clamp should always be on the live side of the cable. Love the videos, you guys are living the life. Keep it up.

Diesel Dave, nothing pisses him off and his energy is amazing, such a nice genuine dude.

I get so excited watching you get ready for another rescue HeavyD you are the best!

Back in the mid 1970s the paving contractor that I worked for got a new Fiat-Allis 12 G crawler loader with the clamshell bucket. One of our operators was using it to begin scraping out an entrance to a new housing addition in Fort Wayne, Indiana. About 100 feet in there was a small pool of water which everyone thought was from a rain storm that had moved through a couple of days before so he drove the machine into the water. The machine weighed 22 tons and immediately began sinking. We had to call in a 200 ton crane in to get it out. Come to find out a water main had broken underneath and the ground had turned into something like quicksand.