The 953 doing a hand stand looks familiar, I had it happen with a 977L on a job site, no amateur operator though, just happened to be some underground void, old tank or who knows, it gave way just as I was getting the bucket teeth over the sideboards of the tandem mack dump. Bucket was full, and now hung up on the dump body. Old DM steel nose mack, luckily one of ours. Now the drawbar was not as high as that 953 is, but you could walk under it, wish I had a photo, the entire jobsite stopped, including all the building trades, just to watch. (multi story addition to a private school outside Morristown NJ)
There was an operator on the 225 excavator on the top side backfilling a retaining wall, he swooped down like superman, in almost a panic, was comical, he got in the truck, but did not know how to run it. LOL ! So I got into this situation, I had to get out of it, just unbeknownst to me, what had collapsed underneath. I just got the bucket up high to load the truck, I looked it over and decided what I had to do.
I crept back on the front idlers, curled the bucket back as far as it would go, wriggled it over the side boards, and now was pinned against the truck, but I could slowly move backwards and ride the bucket down along the dump body, a few minor scratches. When the teeth got to the bottom of the dump body, they cleared, but once on the tires, they were squashing rubber, so a little more maneuvering, before you know it, the teeth just rode the tire sidewall, no damage to truck or 977, back end was on the ground again, show was over, will never forget that one.
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