Posted by john in la on March 20, 2008 at 20:14:48 from (67.35.255.155):
I saw a marsh excavator being hauled down the road today. It made me think about things we see all the time that someone from another part of the country has never seen. Just like the large dozers with rock rippers that we never see around here yet they are a common site in other parts of the country. We could never use a dozer like that around here because we do not have rock bed and a dozer that size would just sink in the ground from shear weight.
A marsh excavator sure is a site to see when it is being hauled for a short distance. They leave the excavators fully assembled for short hauls but break them down into 3 pieces for long hauls.
For those of you that have never seen one or really do not know what a marsh excavator is��� it is a track hoe that has had the tracks removed and replaced with a track that rotates around a pontoon. This allows the machine to float like a boat or more like a barge yet it can move under its own power. This excavator will literally walk on water.
The pontoons are 25� to 40� long; 4� to 7� wide; and 5� to 7� high depending on the size of the excavator being used. When the machine is fully assembled it can be as much as 22� wide. This makes for some fancy driving needed when meeting one being hauled down a 2 lane country highway.
You get this thing stuck and you really got problems.
Would love to hear about or see pictures of equipment that you feel is unique to your local area of the country.
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