Scott Swanson
A crane lifted a city backhoe out of the South Santiam River Friday morning after the piece of equipment inexplicably rolled out of a city yard into a 20-foot-deep pool of water Tuesday afternoon.
A crew from Forslund Crane Service in Albany started setting up to retrieve the backhoe at 8 a.m. Friday. A contract diver for Forslund descended into the swirling water to hook chains to the 16,000-pound yellow Case backhoe, and…