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atankersdad

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This past week we did a recovery of a unique variety. We recovered a deuce from a well. Yes a well. It was 8 foot across and about 10 feet deep. Remember the deuce is only 7' wide. I will not give names, to protect the innocent here, but here is the story. A SS member and friend aclled me last week to ask if my son's and I could help recover a deuce from a well. He had been driving the deuce in one of his fields and found , accidently of course, an abandoned well that was covered in a 1.5" concrete slab and the slab was then covered with dirt , weeds and brush. The right front wheel broke thru the slab and the truck fell and rested on the left front fender and on the frame under the fuel tank. It was dangling over a 7' drop. I called another member who had just picked up a wrecker and we planned for a Sat morning recovery. Our plan was to lift the truck out of the hole and pull it with my sons 5 ton tractor. The majority of the time we spent was trying to figure out how the wrecker worked. You need a smart 21 year old, and a TM, and everything came into place. Once we got the hydraulics and boom ops figured out we had the deuce hooked up, lifted, suspended above the well and pulled to safety within 10 minutes. I just love these wreckers. Thanks to all who helped our fellow MD SS . This was all professionally filmed and is being edited for utube. I have posted pictures in an album for you to view. Once we have a utube link I will post it.

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/members/atankersdad-albums-duece-well-hole-its-recovery.html
 
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NDT

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Wow! Whatever you do, see to it that someone marks or fences off the well so some innocent child does not fall in there and become a statistic!
 
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Probably not a well, but rather a septic tank. The water over an old septic tank wouldn't necessarily be stinky.... especially if it had been unused for a lot of years. It could also be a fresh water cistern, or a cesspool. Old farms often collected rainwater off of the roofs, and kept it in a cistern for later use. People weren't always as fussy about the water they drank, as they are now.

When I bought my septic tank, I paid extra for one with a "traffic cover." That cover was 8 inches thick, and reinforced with steel. The usual cover is 3 inches thick, and has no steel (other than what is necessary to lift it into place). They will not take the weight of a deuce, and survive... as your friend found out.

The countryside is littered with septic tanks that are no stronger than this one was. Be careful when you drive around old house sites, or foundations. Whenever you see a clump of trees in the middle of a field, that is where an old house once stood.

-Chuck
 
swbradley1

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Except for the Deuce almost taking a bath it looked like the recovery was a lot of fun.

sw
 
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