I'm astonished how close people were standing next to cables under huge loads.

And this, Americans, is how to do a documentary on this sort of thing, no drama, no bullshit, no music, no repeats just genuine action BRAVO

I'm stating the obvious, but the excavator operator is highly skilled. I've operated heavy equipment my entire career. A rotating bucket is an added skill set beyond a fixed scoop bucket. His finesse is noteworthy but the real tell-tale sign is the speed at which he runs his machine. Very slow and precise. I'm guessing he's got a few grey hairs on his head for sure. Great video

Well, you watch one video of one being dug out and KZfaq finds me one with two stuck.

This is one of the best videos on KZfaq I've seen in a long time. Very nice mixture of audio and video without putting in heavy base music to distract from the subject. Thumbs up! ☺

I'm impressed that they managed to get James Earl Jones to narrate this.

If you throw in enough excavators there, you have a good foundation.

I feel like Darth Vader just read me a bed time story about excavators.

That guy using the big excavator is really good. He uses that bucket like it's part of his arm

Dude on that excavator has got skills.

Gentlemen I take my hat off to you, I used to be involved in recovery but nothing on a scale like that, great video no crap well done

That guy is a boss with that excavator. Damn good job

They assess, plan and execute the plan! This kind of rescue is Fascinating, made better by succinct limited narration. Excellent work all the way round. Thank you men.

Excavator operator shows fantastic skill with that rotating bucket

I found this video by chance and I'm speechless. What incredible skills they used in operating the equipment, like surgeons. Experienced and finely skilled. The gentleman operating the piece of equipment preparing the way to reach the second excavator deserves special praise. Wow. And what great looking and interesting equipment. The simplicity of the film work is well suited to the situation and the editing was excellent. In my opinion. I know nothing about heavy equipment or filmmaking, but I know what I like. Competence. Really well done, everyone. I'm in awe.

That Volvo operator was top notch! Such a handy machine to lay planks like that. I was impressed!

Anyone can get stuck, but it takes real skill to get it out. Great job and great video.

No idea how I got here, but I couldn't stop watching. Great work!!

Pure brute force. I use to do heavy recovery back in 1999 . That NATO recovery 6x6 truck is impressive. Having a 60ton rotater wrecker is very handy. All combined is the key for a successful pull with out equipment failure. When there is more contact points on firm ground the greater chance of pulling the excavator out even at a dead pull. Great video and a great recovery.

A real stick in the mud...but I stayed and watched every minute, just like I would in real life!

Love to see a bunch of guys figure out a solution to a complex problem. Great job.

That's the best, heaviest-duty pull I've ever seen. Kudos, guys.

I write this in english because of all comments. I was the owner of the orange excavator. I was not the operator at the time but I was lucky to survive that night when we tried to get it out of the mud. It’s 6 years ago and I have tried to not think about it. It was the scariest thing I have experienced. But the documentary is well done and I thought it wouldn’t hurt to tell what happened. We had been loading a couple of thousand tons of rocks and dirt from a pile across the road the week before. It was the finish of a big job where we supplied graders and manpower. The contractor was Skanska, one of the worlds biggest construction companies. The very last thing that needed to be done was to remove a temporary gravel road. Just scrape it up and load. I said why not use the 35 ton? It was to big for the job but it was just sitting across the road waiting to be hauled. So that’s what we were doing at the time of the accident. We were not even digging. What nobody knew was that under the turf at just this part of the big property owned by Stockholm city was quick clay. It’s the scariest material you can imagine. Probably simular to quick sand. But nobody knew. Quick clay can be fund in areas that was one time under sea level. It contains salt and if you add water it looses its strength at a point when you have crawled over it a couple of times. It just changes totally. When the operator called me that day he just asked for advice as the machine had got stuck and I told him to give it one try in each direction and then put down the bucket and wait for assistance. It was no big deal. I called in a colleague that owns a huge towtruck just in case. When we arrive later that evening is when we first notice something is not right. The excavator has sunk all the way down to the cab door. We put out 15 timber mats and hook up the towtruck. I rent a 6 ton excavator from a nearby farmer just to clear the tracks and shove down two timber mats under the tracks. It’s getting dark and it’s starting to rain. the plan is to use the bucket to puch backwards and crawl at the same time as the tower pulls. None of us knows that each time I pull a lever the clay goes softer. The heavy rain makes it even worse. All of a sudden the ground under the towtruck gives way and the weight of the excavator starts pulling the towtruck down the hole. The driver cuts the cables with a grinder and runs off. I am in the excavator slowly going down. One of the front windows breaks and mud and water starts filling the cab. I try to open the top window to escape but it opens too little. I get out through the sliding window in the door and climb up on the roof over to the counterweight which is now the only thing really above the mud. I realize I will have to jump qiute far not to end up in the mud and sink. Having jumped i run to our truck and pull the towtruck out of danger. The driver is just as scared as me and he drives away without a word. I take a quick look at the sinking machine with the engine still running and the rain pouring down. I jump in the truck still shaking from fear. I am confident the machine will be gone in the morning. The next day I wake up still shaking. I cant hold the coffemug. I get a call from the jobsite that the mashine has stopped sinking. Information is given from a nearby property that bedrock is 8 meters down. That is the only reason I am still alive. The bucket hit rock 8 meters down just as I crawled out the window. Otherwise I would probably have been buried alive. The rest you can see on the video. The incident took a toll on me personally for a while. There were times when I wondered why Patrik posted this video. There has been times when I wonder what the recovery had been like if I would have still been in the cab. But 6 years later I agree on all comments about both Patriks job and the documentary. It is a reminder for coming generations of the hard working professionals. Thank You for all comments. /Magnus Platzer

How does KZfaq do it?? Saw this in my "recommended", asked myself why in the world that would be there, clicked anyway, watched the entire video. Left satisfied. AI is taking over.

Blueclay is a true nightmare - the weight, the slipperiness, the density and the suction is so intense. No wonder it often takes lives when there are blueclay slides in populated areas. Impressive rescue. 👍🏼😊

Awesome work guys , strangely mezmerising to watch you recover those excavators

Anyone else love this guys voice? 30% the reason I watched the whole video.

That tow truck looks like a friggin’ locomotive.

did a job just like this back in 1995 when a 42 ton Komatsu excavator got stuck in a bowl of jello muskeg. Took us 2 days to get it out! Nice job lads.

That is amazing display of how to operate an excavator

Looks a lot like my backyard in the Spring time. Thanks for the great video, and great job with that mess.

Great video, fantastic professionalism. Nice to see people who know what they are doing.

One of the best video's i have seen in a long time. amazing job and great to see you back.

Very nice job done by those guys,and i literally loved the video even more because of the commentary,hats off gentlemen.

That guy standing right next to the winch cable operating it has some major stones.

Vídeo muito bom. Mostrando máquinas sendo tiradas de lamaçal, onde parecia ser impossível remover as mesmas, daquele lodo. E o que é mais legal desse filme, é que enquanto está sendo reproduzido, não tem nenhum tipo de música de fundo. Deixando no áudio só os roncos das máquinas e os ruídos das mesmas trabalhando. Parabéns pelo ótimo vídeo. Muito obrigado por postar o mesmo.

Hello boss? I'm kinda stuck. Do I have a shovel? Sure, but this is a little deeper that that. No, more like the earth just swallowed my ex whole. Well planned and well executed. Amazing the mats held up all the recovery equip without also sinking out of sight. Never had to work in anything like that! Nice job guys!

This is team work at it's best. Don't rush the job, slow and steady, really does get the job done. Great, truly great video work too!

That is the scaryest job of pulling I have ever seen. Great job guys.

Apparently digging out excavators stuck in mud is the new 1,000-degree knife videos on KZfaq.

The speaker sounds like the Arby’s commercial. We have the meats!

They likely would have saved a fortune if they had just hired the guy with the Volvo to do the job in the first place! Great operator.

Patrick is a master operator of those machines, never saw a bucket operating like that, it's like he is using his hands he is that perfect 👍

The Voiceover is just phantastic!!! :D

A Masterpiece in its own right!

Got to say that the Swedes has awesome machines and great skills!

Owned excavators for 30 years but none with rotating bucket verygood skills hats off mate

3:29 Those Assistance Karens are much better behaved than the usual sort.

That swivelling bucket is mesmerizing to watch!! What a versatile tool.

Excellent video, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. What a crew.

The narrator was taking like he'd seen a UFO.

Great professional job. A pleasure to watch. No TV just real reality. Great video. Thank you.

feel bad for the first recovery company guy with the little 7 ton excavator that tried to do this job, when you look at what it took in the end to complete it.

This is what I call Professorial Work . Those guy´s know what to do in a tuff situation .

Totally a professional job. The men operating the equipment are honestly, the best of the best

The hardest part is having patience to go slowly...

Note to self there is no drama, no bullshit, no music, no repeats just genuine action in Sweden. Got it. You a funny dude @isctony.

Nice job from the operator of the Volvo he knows what he's doing.

Hi my friend Two excavators are stuck in deep clay, thank you for sharing the video I wish you health, success and see you again

Very professional the way they put timber decks down for the trucks.

my dad logged with swedes in BC,Canada.Some of the best loggers and problem solvers in the woods.they can do everything.Just look at their hockey players

Brilliant team work, the excavator operator helped big time good job..

I love that 360 degree bucket, would have made my life a lot easier in very many spots!

The sound of tension stress on the cables and chains is horrific in this video! Props to every amazingly skilled persons that were involved.

No music and no screaming, love the Swede

Amazing skill, that "blue clay" is unlike any soil I've seen before so fluid

Excellent hard work. Sound mind technicians recovered the equipment’s in the best manner. Good job.

In the USA, Karen call for assistance, In Sweden, They call Karen for assistance.

American voice over- "AT ANY MOMENT IT COULD EXPLODE!"

Excellent video, great narration! More of these please!! 👍

There is a heavy equipment sunk in mud and hopefully watching this video will help the team rescue the heavy equipment. This video kept me under lots of suspense. Great video. Thanks for sharing

Cette vidéo m'a passionnée: un vrai film d'aventure, incroyable. Merci!

Impressive job and it only took them 16 minutes.

The rotating bucket is fantastic , patience and skill always pay off. Henry in the UK

Just watched * letsdig 18 * 1 guy Rescue 💯 hes good

As a grading company owner and a hoe operator, I've dug out a lot of equipment. The guys working for me were told everybody gets stuck sometimes. That's OK but do not bury a machine trying to get out of an impossible situation or you are fired. Those multi-purpose buckets are very cool and the operators are first class. The second recovery crew knew what they were doing and had the right equipment.

I work with and move mats often. That ex driver is DAMN good at that. Very impressive Patrick😂

I watched to see if it started afterwards - There was no happy ending for me just some muddy excavators Thank you for sharing

Great job guys, respect from Holland, Swedish power!!👍

The most amazing part of this is the fact that someone was going to build a house on top of this muck.

That looked expensive!

Reading the comments regarding cables snapping, connectors parting, chains being terminally overloaded, I have nearly fifty years of experience with the use of heavy cables, chains and various connectors. I have seldom gotten in trouble due to being careful and working within the safe limits of my equipment. I did once, however, almost lose an eye when a winch part snapped off and hit my face… I was watching a concrete bridge demolition project from what we all assumed was a safe distance when a heavy cable holding a portion of the roadway - which was intended for saving - snapped. It uncoiled partially as it whipped toward those of us watching. What saved us - what saved ME - was a relatively flimsy chain link fence between the cable and us soft human beings. The fence took the load, bent just enough, and dampened the impact of the jagged wire snake. All that hit us was mud kicked up by

Never seen a bucket like that before, very cool. And the little gripper arm on the side of it was icing on the cake!

If I did not see it, I would not have believed it, truly incredible. Thanks for sharing this.

This clay material must be the quick sand that my childhood cartoons warned me about. :)

Wouldn't want the bill for that job!

Now this shows what a professional Rescue & Recovery company can do awesome job=)

Wow nothing is impossible with a great team work My respect for never giving up

The beginning reminded me of something from a Lego city commercial, “hey! Two excavators are stuck in the mud in Lego city!”

That looks like a cheap day!

Nicely done.... huge job.... the suction power of that clay must have been incredible for them to overcome.

The operator of the Volvo has some serious skills!!! Bravo to all involved!!!

Damn. I think vehicle recovery seems like it would be a very interesting line of work.

I'd hate to be the guy who has to clean that muck out of those machines...

P.O.D “Here comes the BOOM”would have been AWESOME in the background as they started the pull. LOL

A beautiful thing !! Awesome machine !

Great video and well done on the commentary. So much nicer just watching shit happen

I wish there was a video of the machines getting stuck! .... and then the Operators explaining to the boss what has happened... Very skilful recovery & masses of power. Isn’t Engineering fantastic😎

You couldn’t get me to stand anywhere near those cables. That one dude is either very brave, or very stupid.

An expensive and dangerous recovery operation, well done!