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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 10771" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>I'd say you have a Huge Problem also , I use to work for a rental house for quite a few years and seen this senerio more times than I can count , the insurance /damage wavier you talk about wouldn't cover any kind of recovery effort or any kind of repairs reqiured once the unit is recovered as that would be considered operator error and should fall to your insurance if you have any , but with that being said who knows how you will treated by the company you rented it from , as every ones policies can be different ------------- recovery can be extremely expensive , but the repairs to the machine can be alot more , thinking back on a worst case I seen , a Takeuchi TB70 went down over the seat and over the valve cover in mud and water , the biggest dozer we could get over a bridge to get to it was a 5 series Cat , the engine had sucked water on the TB 70 and it was a dead soldier , the Cat could not pull it out , had to get a second machine which was an excavator to dig out around the sunk machine then the two machines pulled it out , the trouble was just starting then , it was a mile to hard roads and the rolloff truck couldn't get to it thru the winding trails , we had to drag it thru the woods , upon getting to the yard it took several hours of cleaning , an engine rebuild as dirt and water had filled the crank case and cylinders while the engine was running and bent a connecting rod , all kinds of electrical problems to solve including starter , alterator , relays , burned out wiring , with all the extra machines rentals , delivery and pickup fees and repairs it was very expensive and the customers insurance refused to pay for it which let the customer liable for the whole deal , the owner of my company made a deal with the renter and he bought the machine after it was repaired ----------it would help if I knew what machine you are working on , up to the lip of the cab sounds bad</p></blockquote><p></p>

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