Over at Daily Timewaster is a post on tanks in trouble.
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2020/12/tanks-in-trouble_19.html
It provoked a memory of some friends who had their new bulldozer paid for in full one summer by the US Forest Service.
They were doing various works and one Forest Ranger wanted them to move to a different location. It was early springtime and the place he wanted them to move required crossing a wetland. They declined, stating their bulldozer would get stuck.
After some heated negotiations, they agreed to attempt crossing but only after receiving a written work order that provided they would be paid their hourly rate if the bulldozer became stuck until it was unstuck. As in 24/7.
The USFS was able to extract the bulldozer that fall after the wetland dried out.
My friends didn’t say what happened to the Forest Ranger. My guess, showing that unique incompetency, he was on the promotion fast track.
