So in total 3 full days of work with 3 guys each day. The terrain is probably a lot like Fairbanks or a little north of there. It is sub-arctic boreal which means black spruce country. Permafrost keeps the water from draining into the soil so the water table is very high. It wasn't quite like the floating peat bogs, just lots of water under that willow and grass matting. I was in chest deep water to pull the oil drain plug had about 30L of water come out before the oil. Good thing too because last night temp dropped to freezing. We did change the oil but the distributor was moist and dirty so I might just pull it back to town once the road opens. Believe it or not but that is a winter road that we are on, it gets built every year.
So basically it was built one teepee to get it up, didn't work. Built another teepee lifted the front and the back from each teepee using a 1 1/2 ton come-a-long at the front and a 1 ton hoist and 3/4 ton come-a-long at the back. That's all we had, it would have been nice to have 2 2 ton come-a-longs. Once both it was suspended we lay a bunch of logs parallel to the tracks about a foot to 4 feet out from the machine to distribute the load and provide a big foot print, then put big logs under the machine perpendicular to the tracks to support the weight of the machine, then another set parallel and under the tracks themselves to give us some height out of the water.
So glad that it is done.
It is a 68 muskeg with a flathead.