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Coke-in-MN 
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Posted: 19 Jan 2020 at 11:27pm |
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Unbelievable the thing still moves and track isn't frozen solid
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JohnCO
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Posted: 20 Jan 2020 at 1:47am |
Coke, you will have to go see if they do get it running in time for their show!
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DiyDave
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Posted: 20 Jan 2020 at 5:10am |
Cool video, though I do admit to watching it at 2x speed! 
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pirlbeck
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Posted: 20 Jan 2020 at 6:22am |
Neat video. Appears to be a Military dozer, at least at one time. 1091 cubic inch, 17.9L engine......wow it's a BIG one.Anyone know the back story of how and when it ended up in the swamp?
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 20 Jan 2020 at 6:40am |
probably got 'bogged down' and sunk..... there's a LOT of A-C dozers under the Alaskan highway ! uncle drove them. if they couldn't get them out FAST...they became 'good base material'.....
there's a few great TV segments of Al Quiring on 'highway to hell' recovering stuck machines. he must get paid a LOT of $$$ to rescue them !!
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 20 Jan 2020 at 9:04am |
Looked up Discovery chanel on him - says ONLY VIEWABLE IN CANADA
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JC-WI
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Posted: 20 Jan 2020 at 12:32pm |
The TD24 was loaned out to make snowmobile trails and it fell in
the swamp in Dec... and the fellows that recovered it had heard about it
and found it in March 44 years later. They had tried to retrieve
several times and the last being successful... 2 years later.
The army corp had tried to get it out back when it went in and that was
when so much of the damage occurred... I would have said it was when
they had the track hoe reaching down for it. LOL
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Posted: 20 Jan 2020 at 1:40pm |
That was pretty neat! I wounder how they got down under water to rig it? Regards, Chris
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