Dump Truck Stuck

This is pretty much the week in photos.

We needed some more wood in the West Side Dining Hall, so we stuffed wood into my truck until it was about to burst.

The wood is now above the cab and the bumper is close to the ground.

It was good that we finished the wood load early in the week, because we had about 10 inches fall during the huge snowstorm.  Not as much as I was hoping for, but enough to keep us hopping all weekend.

These bleachers are a common sight all summer, but they were almost buried overnight.  All the snow means we have two guys dedicated to plowing for a day or two.

And now for the fun!  We did some experimenting with a big plow and about 2 minutes into it we had a dump truck in the ditch.  Whenever something is stuck, the Skytrak is usually on the way in a hot second.

After wiggling around in the ditch for a while we almost got the truck out by getting a bit of a running start.  The ditch was just too steep and the bottom blade got jammed onto the bank.  We needed the Skytrak to just shove it back into the ditch for another idea.

We decided to take the plow off, making it a little easier to maneuver the dump truck.

Can't get enough equipment, right?  The Ford Tractor has a little bit better traction than the Skytrak, so Tim Morris brought that out.  It helped a lot by clearing out some of the snow in the ditch, and pushing the dump truck around when it got jammed.

Our fearless driver, Mike Alchin!

After a couple more running starts that left us hanging just a little short we finally just grabbed a load of pine logs, and slab wood to make a ramp.

That's the peanut gallery.  When they weren't laughing at the spectacle of the whole thing, they would throw out ideas on how to get out of the ditch.

A little big of a traffic jam.  The truck was stuck right off the main camp road near the entrance.  So we had a lot of folks stop by to check us out.

So that was most of the week really.  Not just getting a truck out of the ditch, but dealing with the snow, and cleaning the cabins and lodges both inside and outside.  This weekend we crossed the half way point of the season as we saw Teens and Father/Daughters come through.  With all the snow I've also been riding my motorcycle around a little.  As a kid it seemed like we did a lot of snow riding, but I'm basically trying to figure out how to keep the dirtbike upright on the roads.

Oh, and I'd be quite remiss if I didn't share what happened with the dump truck in the end: