I think the real hero is the guy in the little excavator.

I am in love with that rotating bucket on the mini excavator!

Small excavator driver = PRO

Great work. The guy standing around has a lot of confidence in the strength of those cables.

The small excavator operator knows his stuff. Nice `n steady and done it the right way each time.Take a beer my friend

Thank god the guy at 2:20 had his shovel! No way they would have gotten it out without him! LOL

I found this very relaxing with the constant low end diesel and muck sounds. The final tow is impressive to watch.

I would hire that mini excavator tomorrow! Brilliant skills.

The driver of the small excavator is realy good!

The one running the small excavator was AWSOME, was like that machine was an extension of his arm. Watching that recovery and how they made it look easy was a job well done!!! I used to drive a small winch truck, nothing as big as those trucks, and it is amazing what you can do with them. I'm trying to figure out what that cost for that recovery......great job!! Oh yeah and loved seeing the Chevy in the video also.

Anyone from the discovery channel watching then this is how to do it. No bullhit over excitable voiceover, no made up drama. Diesel chugging and the facts as they happened. Great vid!

I enjoy watching people who know what they are doing, do their thing! Cool video! Thanks!

That guy operating that small excavator is brilliant.

who ever is operating the small Excavator is a complete boss with the bucket

Driver of small rescue excavator was certainly exceptionally skillful, safe & methodical. Whole rescue team deserves credit.

Standing by that CABLE THIS guy got some balls if that shit pop!!!!!!!

Respect to the Mini Digger operator,...I bet he could get that thing to butter him a slice of toast if he wanted!....

One of the coolest vids ever. This was my childhood. I loved diggers, trains, buses etc. This recovery is fabulous.

You can tell professionals because they don't keep trying easy ways then eventually figure out how hard it will be, they know from the beginning it's going to take a lot of work, but they know if they do it the right way first, it will work. Great job I'm glad I didn't have to pay the bill.

After just watching Terribargarn work with their equipment,I would say that there is absolutely no wreck that they could not handle successfully handle. Greg-New Jersey-USA

The winner is Takeuchi!!! I´ve got one, too. The best Mini-excavator in the world!

Incredibly professional recovery, very well done

Skilled guy on the little machine

That guy driving that little excavator around is a surgeon with that thing.

Маленький экскаватор просто КРАСАВА!!!

Most expensive clay stop motion animation I have ever seen.

Great job planing and great workers who helped to remove excavator.Very big respect from Lithuania!

Don't we wish politicians could run our countries with the skill and dexterity these people do their jobs?

Spectacular recovery of the excavator !! SUPERB style of pulling with excellent end Results !! A JOB WELL DONE !!

The guy in the small excavator definitely knows how to make efficient moves, give him a raise.

If this location was somewhere other than in neutral Sweden, I wouldn't have been surprised if they found a WW2 German tank in the hole too! Nice vid!

I gotta say, I didn't think that was coming out of there in one piece without a lot more digging.

Such a great video to watch. Very calming with the sound of rain drops hitting the camera cover. That wrecker looks awesome. In the UK there are a few recovery companies that still use world war 2 vehicles for the shear power they can deliver and lift. The mini digger driver has incredible skill and dexterity with that machine.

very genius solution guys GJ.....especially the guy driving the small excav..

Holy crap, I wouldn't stand right there with those chains/cables tight...

Impressive feat. If they hauled that minivator out there with that little car, I'm even more impressed. ;)

good planning, awesome equipment, great job :) the bucket on that mini excavator was unreal!

The operator of that excavator is bloody awesome! He set up those logs like a boss...top skillz

Incredible. The Red Rig is worth its weight in GOLD. Mini operator is a bad ass and I will take 2 of those swivel buckets. Hats off fellas!

You guys made it look easy. Nicely done!

the small digger guy is awesome!!! Well done for professionalism!!!!

That was one of the coolest heavy equipment retrievals I ever saw. Loved those beautiful hardwood logs. Some of those guys like bright colors don't they? The small shovel operator really knows his trade. That was the deepest gooiest hole I ever saw.

Awesome recovery job! The articulating bucket on the little excavator makes it one VERY handy machine! Smooth operator, and a very logical overall approach. Great job in an extremely difficult spot!

Nice job fellas, but I really wanted to see it start right up afterwards.

that tow trucks badass man

Shit just got serious. Bring out the heavy equipment. My 2 year old son wants to watch the video over and over again :)

really interesting . I enjoy seeing what solutions people with ability and knowledge do to solve such problems with what they have available

Didier:This was amazing to watch!That swedish recovery company knows their stuff.It was exciting to watch,when I first saw the Volvo backhoe buried so deep,I said,"No way,Impossible!"In the states we call that slippery mud,"QUICKSAND". Thanks for sharing it. Greg-New Jersey-USA

Cool, calm and composed. What a team ! Bravo 🙌 👌

Watching this made my husband and I so happy. Happy that we didn't have to be the ones to dig it out. We've have some experience with clay soil and digging things out of it. Nothing like this, but enough to really appreciate the amount of work these guys had to do to get that excavator out. Guys did an great job!

Wow...... That is awesome........ It looked so hopeless😱😱 in the beginning....... Great job you all 👍👍

Crap really does and can happen---these guys got a lot done here with minimum time and expense, good job.

Brilliant video...even more brilliant teamwork, well done to you all !!

The sound... terific..great job guys

I like how the little digger knew his big buddy was in trouble and helped to dig him out.

Great machine driving show & proving how essential a till rotor bucket / grab is 10/10

Thumb up from France guys, you made a hell of a job !

Incredible! The real artist was the gentleman operating the smaller red and white excavator. Good job! From Arkansas, USA.

That's a sweet little mini excavator, never seen one with an arm attachment like that before.

This brings back "fond memories" of an incident that happened many years ago on my farm. The back 16 acres is a bog that is mostly much; we don't even know how deep it is, but we know that you can take a 12'x1" pipe and simply push it down out of sight. All the while our kids were growing up I worked the farm during the day, and was a Police Officer in the afternoon. Once the kids were old enough to operate some of the "4 wheelers", they were told not to go into the Bog; which of course one of them did. Kids being kids, one of them "knew better" than the rest of us, and got his 4 wheeler stuck. Rather than telling anyone, he walked home, got my old Massey to pull the 4 wheeler out, and sunk it down to the hubs. Then he, his brothers, and my wife took the Massey 8168 out, figuring its size, power, and winch would surely pull everything out...nope. It was at that point that they decided they had to bite the bullet and call Dad. I was on patrol on the opposite end of the County, and had just agreed to work a double until 7:00 the next morning. To say I was not happy is an understatement, but I kept my cool and simply told them, "everything had better be back in the barn, and clean, by the time I get home tomorrow morning," and hung up. Well, I guess it was a long, cold, wet night for the family, but it was mission accomplished. The only thing I EVER said, after looking everything over was, "good job." Damn...that was over ten years ago, and I can still feel myself getting a little ticked just thinking about it. Now, my oldest grandkids are operating the 4 wheeler, and smaller tractor, and I live for the day when THEIR dad gets a phone call...

Excavator getting excavated....lol ...I think green truck did have a cable connected, just couldn't see it...great job..love that swivel bucket...WOW!

the operator of the little white excavator is really good!

Anyone else kinda more interested to watch the thing sink into the mud in the first place? XD

Could an auxiliary hydraulic source have been hooked up to the excavator to enable an operator to run the machine? I've had a little skid steer excavator stuck, and wished I could just put an electric pump on it to run it at a low level to get it on a trailer.

Spezialisten mit starker Winde! Tolles Video

Wow great job getting that out! Unbelievable! 😱😱😱😱

the lad in the mini digger is well able to drive it

I just saw the bucket swing around on the mini-excavator and literally said "WHAT WITCHERY IS THIS?!?"

Theirs nothing like watching people that know to operate equipment. Excellent work.👍👍👍👍

The little red-and-white excavator that could !..........................The real hero !

Mein größten Respekt! Tolle Leistung die ihr da vollbracht habt. 👍👍👍

Those guys are crazy standing anywhere near the tow lines. If one snapped it would be all over for them.

this operator is awesome

That's quite a versatile head on that little excavator. Haven't seen anything like that before!

Muito profissional o que essa equipe fez , tudo calculado e esquematizado , sou operador de escavadeira hidráulica trabalho em uma mineradora .

That was amazing! Such a cool video... You are fantastic at what you do!

You bloke's are bloody brilliant. I reckon you must be taught how to operate excavator's in school you're all so damn good at it. You operate them like surgeons.

And that's how it's done 👍 Excellent recovery

great job, but the small tractor driver's area is amazing!

5 000 000 Vews and Still Going Strong :)

Every time I see this in Sweden a monster hole is left behind. This was one of the better tree ramp operations I have seen done. No muss no fuss and just the two winches kept moving strongly. It took a while to break the suction but when that happened it started moving faster.

What a great little excavator, a 360 360!

I like the crane. Looks like they'd rented it from a technical history museum.

I'm thinkin, some all weather floor mats might be a good investment.

The attachment on the mini-X is by far the most useful attachment Ive ever seen!

Bland det fräckaste jag har sett!

The only thing I can see that was done wrong was they should have had anti whip blankets on the cables. They are basically just heavy sheets that will absorb the energy if the cables snap. Without them, those idiots walking around the cables would have been cut to jerky had a cable snapped. Other than that, a text book operation in using the land and man together to solve a problem.

This was really interesting to watch! Great work men!

Nice work and that 1962 Scania is in brilliant condition

Some skills there Sweden 👍🏻

I wonder what that tow Bill was? Impressive Tow Trucks,

I'm amazed at how strong those thin cables were pulling the excavator out.

That was pretty cool. I know they HAD to dig it out, but how they do this was great to see.

Recovery truck is interesting.. I can't recognize it very well - but when I hear it run I recognize the classic sound of a Scania Dsc11 engine. One of the best engines ever..Drove a 112M for many years with this engine - lovely motor. Thanks for a really interesting video. Wales, UK

Nice job everyone!!! I was impressed with the civilian equivalent of a military tank recovery vehicle ....! Thanks - Gordon in Maui (we have our problems here but excessive low-laying water isn't one of them....).

If its icy and if the tracks are wore out .. It is easy to slip into mud and get stuck. So.. getting stuck like that is possible for a good operator. However.. I would be surprised if the guy on the mini doesn't have more than 20+ years of experience.

That is a cool bucket on the mini excavator!

Wow that's gumbo mud with attitude!!! You boys are good......Nice job. Impressive!

If you've operated heavy equipment long enough, you've probably had the unfortunate circumstance shown in this video. If not, you probably wonder how exactly does someone allow themselves to be swallowed up by the earth on a piece of equipment so massive & powerful. Whereas I'm not an everyday operator, I've run rentals enough to find myself in a similar situation at least once & it's not as hard to get yourself in that kind of "jam" as you think. A trac-hoe by nature is top heavy & if you're clearing timber in boggy terrain, all goes pretty well until you've cleared a wide enough swath of timber to find yourself in the middle of a large clearing with suddenly "no bottom" to it. You feel somewhat invincible in a machine you know can pull itself out of almost any situation you get into but when those tracks start spinning & your machine cants to one side, that's when the fun starts. The more you push, pull or move your boom you find yourself just a little deeper in doo & that high elevation you were enjoying looking out across all that in front of you starts to disappear,, your entire rig is sinking or actually digging it's own grave as you twist & turn in the bottomless pit you created. The water table below you starts to rise & turn any semblance of stable ground below you into more mush & consume you the more you struggle with your rig to find some kind of traction or footing to regain an advantage. Those stump holes you created taking down those trees fill & mix with water & unknowingly, you made a perfect storm below you. The biggest issue is losing your equilibrium, where the actual weight of the machine works against you when you lose that flat plane where once all things were equal. Suddenly, the counterbalance of where any machine of this size draws it's strength from is gone & that misplaced weight acts as a digging mechanism & your tracks try to but can't compensate for all that weight displacement. You go deeper & deeper with each move you make trying to desperately not end up like the operator in this video knowing he's going to have to call in for help with a few folks getting a small chuckle out of his misfortune. Your tracks at a diagonal act as a "cutting mechanism" instead of a flat plane used to maneuver on a flat stable surface. The tilt you're suddenly working from creates a difficult effect swinging your boom to pull or push & you're looking into the sky on one side & hitting the bog beneath you halfway around when attempting to utilize your bucket to pull you out. The solid platform you sit inside of doesn't feel so invincible anymore & it's intent to control all that spinning & pulling power has lost it's purpose. It happens to the best of operators & I was fortunate enough that day to work myself calmly out the mess I'd gotten into with the help of a massive pine close by that gave me just enough leverage to grab ahold to & slooooowly pull myself out little by little. After watching this video, I can think back to how with a few wrong moves, I could have probably buried my machine in that perfect bog that day myself. Believe me, the suction of that muck below you doesn't want to allow your escape, it's slippery & sticky consistency wants to hold you & take you down further if it can. As I said, you feel invincible almost with all that power at your disposal but power is relative to the forces around you & even the most enormous of manmade capacity can be swallowed up like a floating city called an ocean liner in the middle of the seas without a trace of evidence it ever existed if the right (or wrong) circumstances prevail..