Towards the end of the job the driver discovered that the "hard bed" was actually a compacted gravel crust over wet peat when the machine broke through. He reacted quickly enough to drop the boom and stop it sinking out of sight but the engine hydraulicked. The machine was eventually recovered using 2 heavy wreckers with 60 tonne winches after pumping the pond dry and digging an exit ramp with our Liebherr R900B (which I now own
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
After an engine rebuild the 812 was auctioned and made less than the recovery cost
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Ian.