[SEL] Coolsprings

[Dave Rotigel]

To make a long story short and true, the roller operator attempted to shift 
gears going up hill. He got the roller out of one gear but was not able to 
get it in another. The roller has no breaks, thus it rolled down hill and 
into the ditch. Damn lucky no one was hurt or killed!
         Dave

At 12:14 AM 6/18/2007, you wrote:
>To make a long story short and simple,  the roller got stuck in the deep
>ditch on the way up the hill to the Snow construction site. And with
>something as large and heavy as a roller combined with a deep ditch its not
>a simple chain a tractor to it and drag it out kinda operation. And to make
>matters worse the clutch on the D8 was acting up due to lack of use and
>took some effort by the boys to get it working well enough to
>use.       TTYL,  Mark
>
>
>
>At 12:08 AM 6/18/07, you wrote:
> >Mark,
> >     I didn't hear about the roller mishap.  What happened?  It was
> >rolling around the grounds when I left on Friday.
> >
> >Tommy Turner
> >Magnolia, KY
> >
> >
> > >For those of you who seen it, The Buffalo Springfield roller is out of the
> > >ditch and back into its barn safe and sound with no apparent damage. Just
> > >some scraped paint to the undercarriage. Can't say the same for a few 
> trees
> > >though, GRINNNN.  After its extracation from the low lands it was checked
> > >over thoroughly and it was deemed safe to fire it up and it was driven to
> > >the barn under its own power like nothing ever happened. The 
> extraction was
> > >accomplished with the Museums Military duce and a half wrecker and the Cat
> > >D8 and a crew of dedicated workers.  Four hours total work. Alls well that
> > >ends well.                      Mark
> > >
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