Seems funny that such a benign looking place should be able to trap your tractor. Well, from this side of the computer anyway! Not so much funny from your side. Couple questions, do you have your tires filled with fluid? The extra weight is helpful. You were in 4x4, right (just had to ask!) and you did use the differential lock?
Here's how I would have attempted to get out. First, I would have raised the box blade up all the way. Then made sure that the tractor was in 4x4 (yes, I "forgot" a couple times in the past....), in low range and would have stood on the differential lock. Then slowly slowly slowly put pressure on the peddle to go back wards.
If it made it back out to solid ground - great. If it starts to slip, I would raise the FEL some, un-curl the bucket so it was all the was down and then lowered the arms and curled the bucket to help push the tractor back wards. It takes some coordination to do it all at the same time!
There are more advanced techniques that use the FEL bucket with a chain. You then curl the bucket to get either forward or reverse (chain under the tractor) progress. You typically have to block the wheels as you reset the chain.
Tire chains would be good, but for snow and ice you absolutely need to have the links interconnected. H-bar chains and chains with circles are good. Otherwise there is little to no resistance to sliding sideways. Trust me, it draws a large negative pressure to have forward and back ward traction but have the tractor sliding sideways downhill whenever you move!
jb
Here's how I would have attempted to get out. First, I would have raised the box blade up all the way. Then made sure that the tractor was in 4x4 (yes, I "forgot" a couple times in the past....), in low range and would have stood on the differential lock. Then slowly slowly slowly put pressure on the peddle to go back wards.
If it made it back out to solid ground - great. If it starts to slip, I would raise the FEL some, un-curl the bucket so it was all the was down and then lowered the arms and curled the bucket to help push the tractor back wards. It takes some coordination to do it all at the same time!
There are more advanced techniques that use the FEL bucket with a chain. You then curl the bucket to get either forward or reverse (chain under the tractor) progress. You typically have to block the wheels as you reset the chain.
Tire chains would be good, but for snow and ice you absolutely need to have the links interconnected. H-bar chains and chains with circles are good. Otherwise there is little to no resistance to sliding sideways. Trust me, it draws a large negative pressure to have forward and back ward traction but have the tractor sliding sideways downhill whenever you move!
jb