The Worst Excavator Recovery Of My Career

My 3 year old grandson has gone crazy over excavators and I remembered this video you made so I got him on my lap and said let gramps show you a excavator that got stuck in the mud. My grandsons name is Pren and you made his day. He was mesmerized by watching from your view in the seat of your excavator. I was laughing so hard because he was talking to you to be careful and don’t hit that other excavator even though your video is two years old you made a three year old very happy today. I just got through ordering him a excavator toy just like yours. He will be one happy little boy when it gets here and now he wants to watch with me when you have new videos coming out. You just never know how your videos will have a effect two years later.

"So what do you do for a living?" "I excavate excavators."

Showed the stuck machine to my buddy and his eyes widened a little bit and then just says "well I doubt he was even forklift certified. That's actually kind of impressive to accidently bury a excavator that deep without trying." But you sir are a surgeon with your machine. Truely impressive work.

Reminded me of a story from 'back in the day' - when building the Metro shopping centre in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK, the police were called in one Monday morning as 'some one has stolen our bulldozer' over the weekend. A lot of raised eyebrows and investigating followed, but no robber was identified and the 'dozer never recovered, filed in the unsolved case files. A short while later when some of the building foundations were being excavated a solid object was struck, on clearing some space it was realised that it was the 'stolen' bulldozer. This had sank deep enough into the earth over the 'theft' weekend that it was no longer visible or noticeable :)

At 17:27 he grabs a mat without looking. He is one with the machine and has total spatial awareness.

Whatcha watching? Excavators What are they excavating? Excavators

This would have been a 12 person, 8hr long recovery on heavy D’s channel. This guy knows his way around a machine to say the least!

These guys knew what they were doing. It's always a joy to watch professionals at work.

I don't know why this got recommended to me but I'm not complaining

I'm not an operator but I am someone who can appreciate someone that operates at this speed without beating the hell out of every bushing in the machine and constantly sending hydraulic fluid screaming over the pressure relief. Nice props to you man. In person I think I may have only ever seen one operator that's this good.

This was the 1st video I watched of Chris about a year ago, & been hooked ever since! Just a great operator & just as good at explaining what's going on for us "non operators" Thanks Chris, keep up the good work!

35:38 this is the coolest part, like they’re holding hands to pull the stuck one up!

17:01 When I realized he IS IN FACT going foreward and reverse as hes turning the cab and operating the bucket, with the accuracy of a surgeon lol this guys great haha

If you need to rescue a kitten you call the fire department, if you have to rescue a CAT you call this guy. :D

I tried to put this on in the background while I was working but it was so good i couldnt take my eyes off the video for the whole duration. the way you use it is so satisfying, sometimes you are doing things so gently and when you look away and the arm of the machine is still doing something its almost like shes a whole other creature and you're riding on top as it helps get a sibling free. The machine spirit is definitely strong in this one. 35:26 when both of the machines arms faced each other I was sat thinking "they should hold on to each other somehow and pull free" and slap me sideways if that isnt what happened next. amazing video...

That was amazing to watch! This operator has tremendous skills to be able to do all that in less than 2 hrs. I'm glad I caught this video. So inspiring to see a true professional at work.

A tear rolled down my face when the two machines held hands to help each other up the hill. Beautiful moment

"The good thing is, we got plenty of help!" Yeah. 6 people watching him work locally. About 2 million (so far) watching him online... 😂

1 guy loving what he is doing. 7 guys standing around wishing they were the 1 guy.

That brings back memories, we did so many rescues in the Oilsands of Alberta Canada of this nature, biggest was a 750 Cat buried in wet tailings sand to the top of the cab, took five days two D11’s and two Hitachi 350’s to get it out, all on rig mats. Biggest mistake operators make is trying to get unstuck instead of stopping and waiting for a rescue while the tracks are still able to move, most of the time it only goes deeper and suction is the enemy. You did an awesome job 👍🏻