finished roughing in the upper road and started clearing the lower fence line. I had been dragging trees out to the burn pile and backing back down the trail, one old rotten stump with a clump of vine maple growing out of it was nerrowing the path down so i gave it a shove and the crawler just spun around about 45* dropping a track in a soft spot and it went down. I packed the winch in and gave a pull only to have the winch go up in smoke as sparks were coming from the winch cable as it went around the bolck, yep the positive ground on the oliver did it. 
time to regroup and rewire the winch. using a tow strap to conect to the crawler and half a dozen blockes to increase the pull of the winch, along with a generator, multiple setting battery charger and a seperate battery, some track spinning and a lot of digging including digging out the roots of the vine maple clump that were hanging up on the cross bar underneith, slowly but surely the little crawler came out of the sinck hole that had sucked it in almost to seat depth. <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: -->  
even as much work as it took to recover mr oliver from the sinck hole it sure has saved a lot of manual labor just clearing the fence line.  <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->