About 8 years ago I was putting track frames on a D9G CAT. We had a big excavator acting as a crane for one of the frames because I couldn't get my service truck to that side.
The thing had bound up on the hard bar, and I ducked into the hole between the frame and the main body of the machine to give the jack holding the hard bar a few strokes up.
I got in several licks before I heard something pop. Our of instinct I threw myself back out of the hole and began backing up.
About that time the 11,000 lb frame jumped up up about three feet, slammed into the 30,000 lb main body 3 ties, right where head had been, and then dropped back down on the ground.
The whole incident, from pop to drop, took less than 5 seconds. In other words, a split second hesitation on my part when I heard that pop, and I would have been crushed......
When things like this happen to people, we usually tend to laugh about it later. While we know the seriousness of what happened, deep down, I think the laughter is much easier than having to actually to face mortality and just how close to death you may have been.
In this case, the look on the face of the guy operating the excavator was priceless......and by the time he commented about how fast 'the old man' (my Dad) moved, we were laughing to the point of tears.
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