THIS is the definition of stuck!!!

[Hermio]

I watch Matt's adventures all the time.

Ditto

 

[Hermio]

Shoulda bought a Yanmar. I copied this photo off Yanmar Japan's corporate website long ago.

They're built to run half submerged.


I wonder if that guy tried pulling his tractor forward by curling the loader bucket.

I watch Matt's Offroad Recovery too. That and Noraly - Itchy Boots - now in her sixth year touring every continent on a small motorcycle. Recent posts show Ecuador to Canada and she likely in reality has finished Alaska by now. 1.4 million subscribers. Best narrative of anything on YouTube.

Edit: link added.

Yes, he tried using the loader. But in peanut butter mud, that does not always work. That Yanmar has outrigger mud cogs. I have never seen them used in the USA.

 

[Hermio]

I was building houses in Vegas, during the wettest 90-days on record. My subdivision, had turned into a bog, but my boss had insisted we keep trying to work.

A kid practicing on a Case 580 got it stuck in the mud. So, his foreman went over with the 680 chained on and tried to get him out. He stuck the 680 to the frame. Boss got pissed, and took the big excavator to get him unstuck. And ended up with mud two feet over the tracks.

Dirt string boss saw them stuck and chained on the water pull, and stuck it. So, the scraper operator runs over helps him un-chain, and is going to push it out.

Sticks teh scraper. Owner of the dirt string shows up and jumps on the D10, and is going to push the scraper out. Then sticks the D10.

AT which point I tell every body to back off, and try again in the morning, and call my boss to tell him we are shut down.

this circus has destroyed a couple hundred feet of roadway prism, and a dozen house pads, which will all have to be rebuilt.

He of course shows up in his one ton, four wheel drive custom van with his mobile office in the back. He drives out to look at the mess, and sticks the van to the frame. And of course somehow this is all my fault.

He wants to know how I’m going to get his van out. I tell him that when the D10 gets out, we can use it to pull him out. And he goes ballistic and starts blaming me for his mess.

He starts yelling at me, and I’ve had enough that I yell back. I tell him he’s the damned fool who bought a piece of land which had sat undeveloped for decades, because it was full of gypsum and clay and turned to a huge cow patty every time it gets any water on it.

He fired me. Three hours left he called to rehire me. I had already called a few people I knew who had worked for him before and left, and had another job lined out.

You can only put up with stupid for so long.

Priceless! A chain reaction!

 

[Hermio]

It amazes me everytime I see someone running a loader or TLB with the bucket elevated so he is looking underneath it. Apparently these people have no clue what center of gravity means when it comes to making turns. Or better yet, roading a piece with the bucket elevated-I guess they think it improves visibility.

I have seen a lot of idiots do this.

 

[Hermio]

When you put stuff on YT, you open the door for all sorts of wacko's.

"Wackos" is plural. "Wacko's" is possessive.

 

[Surshot]

Red Horse, the USAF engineers, ran a D-9 into a spring on Hurlburt Field, operator jumped off the seat as the dozer went down, then they tried to pull it out with a belly dump, the belly dump box floated but was stuck trying to stop the dozer from going below the top of the canopy. The diesel idling was vibrating the ground, causing the dozer to sink furthur. They finally got a tank retriever to pull the whole mess out. They were running an exercise, to fill our range for MWR and the Rod and Gun Club, ran 300 yards down into a swamp. It was quite an exercise. I bought 20 cases of beer for their squadron picnic, after. I arrived on scene in time to see just the blue canopy top sticking up out of the water.
That is quite a sight, I did not take any pictures, too many real angry people walking around talking about sending people to Diego Garcia or other wonderful islands spots.

 

[wsc9tt]

Here is my worse experience with something big getting stuck:

Stuck bus

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I sunk a 13 ton bus to its frame in loose gravel. I had an old telephone pole I used to slide under the frame behind the rear tires so for when the air leaks out. This time the bus didn't rise up enough for the engine to pass over the pole so it dragged. When the rear tires spun it dug a hole with the bus frame supported by the pole.

Many hours with a pair of jacks and lumber I got it up enough to remove the pole and get some crushed packing gravel under the wheels.

 

[Jstpssng]

Speaking of Matt's Offroad... has anybody else noticed that he has backed off from the kinetic recoveries? In his latest video, posted yesterday (9/28) he chooses to use the winch rather than trying to snag a badly stuck truck and trailer. While not mentioning Ryan Woods by name, he mentions the man's unfortunate death while of roading

 

[Joel/ak]

I haven't watched Matt recently but he used to swear by those kinetic straps. May have to start watching his videos again.

 

[Jstpssng]

I haven't watched Matt recently but he used to swear by those kinetic straps. May have to start watching his videos again.

He still uses them but a lot more gently. Have you seen the "World's Largest Offroad Wrecker"which they are building? I'm not sure how they plan to get it from the shop to the jobsite.