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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Horrell" data-source="post: 811" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>Recent rains in California have caused quite a few equipment disasters. There is a road near where I live that is just above a lake and leads to 4 homesites. I usually grade this road in the spring time to remove the winter rain damage. This area got over 20 inches of rain in a recent storm and I got a call from the homeowners to fix the road which was impassable. I told them I knew it was too wet to fix and to call me when they could dig a hole 18 inches deep without any water filling into it. There is about 6 to 10 feet of silt on top of a clay base in this location and the water has to evaporate out since the clay keeps it from perculating down. The surface can sometimes seem dry on the surface but it is still wet underneath and equipment will sink. They didn't want to wait and called a backhoe guy who came out and promptly stuck his backhoe up to the top of the rear tires. Boom, stabilizers, and bucket were all worthless in getting unstuck so he called a buddy with a dozer. The dozer got stuck up to the top of the tracks. They then rented a 85,000lb excavator and took 2 days to get everything out. There was also a 4X4 pickup stuck up to the middle of the doors when the backhoe first arrived. I cleaned up the road about 12 days later. It took that long for it to get dry enough. There was a house nearby with mud up the the bottom of windows in the back of the house. The lady asked me if I could clean it out. When I started to walk toward the house, I could make the ground shake like a bowl of jello and I was still about 100+ feet away from the house. Nothing I could do then, and I felt sorry for the lady as water was seeping through the walls and ruining her house.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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