The Engineers Said Nothing Can Pull It Out — Then the Old Man Fired Up His 1912 Steam Engine…

On a Tuesday morning in September of 1992, Frank Donnelly stood at the edge of a swamp and watched his career sink into the mud. 3 days earlier, his company’s newest piece of equipment, a Caterpillar 375 excavator, $600,000 of hydraulic power, and computerized precision had broken through what the surveyors promised was solid ground.

The machine had dropped like a stone, its 60tonon …

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