Quote Originally Posted by WmRMeyers View Post
True, but he should have been aware of the recent weather. Assuming he's the operator who got stuck, he also should have stopped before he sunk in that deep. From the previous bogging down, he should have known better than to keep going. I wouldn't bet on that chain being 3/8", either. And freezing the video, I'm not sure that excavator isn't an attachment for the loader, instead of a complete excavator. All I can see in the video is the digger and a scraper blade, no power unit or treads, or cab. If so, he's doubly screwed, and I'm REALLY glad I'm not there.

Bill
A bog like that is probably not a weather related issue, rather a water table issue especially if it is anywhere near a river.
the stuck machine has a dozer blade on it so they are probably trying to get to where they can log some trees.
And yes after the first indication of bogging down the prudent thing to have done was once he was on top of the surface again would have been to probe the ground with a steel rod.
The problem we have is only a snippet of what happened