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ZackaryMac · #27 10-23-2005, 11:46 PM

Here's a diesel story I was told:
Many years ago, up north, a mining company ordered a new, big dozer from down south, and it came by ship. Normally, a large load like this is transported from the ship to land by barge, but as the dozer was too heavy for the barge, they weren't sure what to do to get it to the land.
An old mechanic on board the ship has a solution. They attatched long pipes to the intake and exhaust, picked it up with chains or something, started it up, put it in gear, and lowered it into the water with the crane. When it hit bottom (25 ft or so), they let it go, and it chugged it's way up the shore to dry land. Someone jumps on it and shuts it off. I imagine they had to change all the fluids, however the story goes the tractor ran a long time after that.

I've wondered what they would have done it the dozer hit a big rock and wouldn't go any further....