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kensandiford

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I am just wondering what is the most strange job people have had with their machines?Has anyone heard of some interesting jobs? Has anyone worked for famous people? Does anyone own some weird attachments? What is the most unique attachment you have seen or heard about.
 

864wood

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The most stressfull and weird job I can think of is Team Fountains brothers new house. We were due to set his new multi-piece house on a poured foundation on a thursday. On wednesday I got a call from Tommy the brother to ask me to bring my machine and help. HE SOUNDED PANIKED!!!!. It turns out the front porch I backifilled 2 weeks before was 100% clay and by getting rained on, the hydraulic pressure of the water and clay pushed the entire front porch wall over into the basement. Mind you we have a 110 ton Leibehr crane and the house showing up at 9Am the next morning. So Tommy, Team Fountain and myself with machine cut hammerd and dug all to concrete and dirt out into the wee hrs of the morning to allow us to set lolly columns in place of the missing wall and allow the house to be set in the AM. I might also add an 864 is 79" wide and the opening into the basement was 80". Not much clearance and there were other lolly columns supporting all the other steel beams in your way and if I remeber they were @ 12' on center. So just enough room to back up turn slowly and take the load out. What a way to spend an evening till 2AM. Mission acomlished though.
 

Tigerotor77W

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The most stressfull and weird job I can think of is Team Fountains brothers new house. We were due to set his new multi-piece house on a poured foundation on a thursday. On wednesday I got a call from Tommy the brother to ask me to bring my machine and help. HE SOUNDED PANIKED!!!!. It turns out the front porch I backifilled 2 weeks before was 100% clay and by getting rained on, the hydraulic pressure of the water and clay pushed the entire front porch wall over into the basement. Mind you we have a 110 ton Leibehr crane and the house showing up at 9Am the next morning. So Tommy, Team Fountain and myself with machine cut hammerd and dug all to concrete and dirt out into the wee hrs of the morning to allow us to set lolly columns in place of the missing wall and allow the house to be set in the AM. I might also add an 864 is 79" wide and the opening into the basement was 80". Not much clearance and there were other lolly columns supporting all the other steel beams in your way and if I remeber they were @ 12' on center. So just enough room to back up turn slowly and take the load out. What a way to spend an evening till 2AM. Mission acomlished though.
Wow... quite a story and quite an accomplishment.
 

Bob Horrell

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Wow... quite a story and quite an accomplishment.
For me the most fun jobs are designing and building motocross and bmx courses. I have built a couple of mx courses for private individuals on really hilly property. This always makes it extra fun and challenging. I have had a few real close calls.
 

YellowDog

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I was asked to bury the cremated remains of a neighbor. I had to turn the job down because I would have had to straddle another grave to dig where they wanted me to. That would have been bad..
 
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