Excavator beaten by the tide - West Bay Dorset

[takattak]

Did anyone see this? don't know whether or not they managed to recover it! Google wessex fm and digger.

[jcb4cx]

that will be the end of that , look out for it at the next richie auction

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-17324738
ooks like the tide beat them in this go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5k4Tr5q2Rg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4DIbQVPhAc&feature=related

[Neversweat]

Top job

Steve

[Martyn Henley]

Does anyone know if they got the machine out in the end ?

[Martyn Henley]

The answer to my question is, yes they did
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113903/Worker-gets-sinking-feeling-22-ton-digger-gets-bogged-harbour-submerged-rising-tide.html

[jcb4cx]

daewoo with a hitachi boom , having a bit of an identity crisis too

[essexpete]

If everything was thoroughly steamed off. Tanks, engine, electrics removed/replaced/rebuilt would it survive?

[jcb4cx]

If everything was thoroughly steamed off. Tanks, engine, electrics removed/replaced/rebuilt would it survive?

probably long enough to get it to a richie auction

[Julian]

If everything was thoroughly steamed off. Tanks, engine, electrics removed/replaced/rebuilt would it survive?

It's the electronics that would be toast, if you start adding up the cost of all the ecu's, sensors, computers, instruments etc etc + the cost of (probably) all the other stuff bsuggered by the salt water then I'd say (just as a pure guess) that the cost of repair would be too close to the value of the machine and hence an economic total loss.

I's say there would be scope for an enterprising individual prepared to source bits from breakers maybe?

Julian.

[takattak]

I'm working on a machine that sunk in a bog up to the top of the cab. They're never the same afterwards! Shame the operator left the engine running! Engines don't like breathing water!