Two columns back, I wrote about driving over the top of a very thinly covered well pit and the rear wheels of my rig going through with the frame of the truck hitting the ground. As I further remember, it was an old dug well, not a well pit. Whatever it was, it was a lot of work to get the rig back on all six wheels as I mentioned.
I was talking with a driller friend recently and he had read that column and said he had a better story yet. He and his father were maneuvering a trailer-mounted rig when one wheel went through a weak cover and into the top of a septic tank. He said, like in my case, they had some hard work to get the trailer back onto its wheel but never had to get into the septic tank or its contents. My comment would be, “that was a good thing.