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This turned up in a link on the Heavy Equipment Forum. Grim but, at least it wasn't raining...

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Boy, you're not kidding! That place was like an earthly equivalent to a black hole. It almost looks like that truck tries to drive through quicksand.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

If you look to the left of the "roadway," you'll notice a "little stream" - that and the fact that the roadway is a little damp should have been clues that alls not right with that picture...

I wonder how the "de-briefing" went following the retrieval of all the gear...

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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That was a lot of weight to put on a dirt road. Nothing like driving a light truck or small car there.

Hey, Randy, I passed a place in Culpeper, VA yesterday that was called Berry Hill Farm. Though about you. I guess it's not that unusual of a name.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Thanks for the flashbacks, Randy.

A few years ago (during the drought), I drove our 555A loader/backhoe out onto a “dry” tank bed. Found out the hard way that 18” of dried dirt can have 30+” of mud under it. Once it went through…ouch…it went straight to the axles on the rears and about 4” over the front tires. Nastiest, thickest silt mud I’d ever seen.

I could have pushed and pulled it out with the bucket and backhoe (As I’ve done w/ other backhoes), but Ford had a breakaway hydraulic system on the bucket, so it couldn’t push the front up at all. Pissed me right off.

Thank God, we had our Cat maintainer (grader) near by, and my friends at BNSF brought over one heck of a rail yard chain. Pulled it out backwards in about 5 minutes.

Then I got to spend about 3 hours with the pressure washer.
Nasty mud. Like fine cement mix.

I wont do that again.

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billing. ha..

You should see the equipment that gets trapped in the sand at the beach's for various reasons. (read dumb operators). That sand when the tide comes in will bury a D8 to the roof, which I have seen. And they did manage to get out!


That really sucks!

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2007 Tiara 3200

Yeah, Googling turns up a lot of hits for Berry Hill and Berryhill.

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Last week, I was clearing fenceline in Winchester, TX and got into a soft spot. Fortunately, I noticed that I'd ceased going forward and was now proceeding downward at an alarming pace...the tracks were literally digging themselves down into the ick. The dozer has flotation pads and will sit on top of almost anything short of clear water...I was able to back out but, it sure could have been ugly.

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Crosstimbers area has those areas formed by shallow hardpan which keeps rainwater near the surface all of the way down a hill where it pools. Usually those areas are bone dry and you could could drive a house mover across it. But after a few months of prolonged rain and low evapotranspiration the entire hillside will become saturated. As heavy equipment rolls across it the vibration starts a process called soil liquefaction -- more commonly associated with earthquakes (like what happened in the San Francisco in the Embarcadero, IIRC) and the soil loses its mechanical stability -- down ya go. If you leave the equipment too long the soil will re-solidify around it. You can also find that in central Louisiana and the blacklands of Mississippi & Alabama. Probably other places, too.

http://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/what/what1.html

when I first looked at those photos I said alot of unladylike words. Then was glad I wasn't the driver..

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2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

So what was actually stuck to begin with that the wrecker was going after?

Tom W

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

good website for towing info. thanks for giving me a reason for getting up at 4am

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"...let us put aside the blindness of mind of those who can conceive of nothing higher than what is known through the senses"
-Saint Gregory Palamas, ---Discourse on the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ


Centrally located in North East Central Pa.

For the last few days I've been working at a place south of the farm. I was down in a creek bottom that was pretty soft, taking out some water oaks and I realized that the 'ground' (if you could call it that) was pretty soft. I bailed out, backing the dozer up out of the area in question. Whe I walked back down to check it out, you could jump up and down on that ground and it would spring like a trampoline. Thank Dog for swamp pads.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.