Is this a TBN record?

[pjbci]

That must be why i've never been stuck in the last eight years .

Uh oh, you just jinxed yourself!

 

[jenkinsph]

It has been a long time since I was stuck, may happen tomorrow though.
My past experience is dozers are easy to stick but harder to get out. I make an effort to leave wet areas alone, you can do more damage than you can do good.

 

[rsewill]

Probably doesn't count but I brought my new-to-me tractor home on a trailer, started it up, put down the ramps and just then the fuel shutoff solenoid fried and the tractor quit running. Stuck on the trailer, not startable. I put the ramps back up and hauled it to the dealer.

 

[MF1652]

Took me over 2 years before I got stuck in a dry place
Had gone over the area several times getting it level for our new chicken coop. All of a sudden I had a sinking feeling. Good thing I had the backhoe on as I could lift the tractor enough to get boards under the tires.
Lucky you had a neighbor nearby that got you out with his JD :thumbsup:

Hold on! Mousefield...that's your chicken coop in that last pic? Dang! I don't think you can legally call that a coop

 

[The It]

Just got my two sunk tractors out this afternoon; both in mud up to the floor mats and leaning like the tower of Piza. 'Thought my new cabbed one, with only 20 hours on it was going to be laying sideways in a 10' row between two sets of trellis wires and steel posts.

I was out spraying herbicide between showers last week and started slipping. Having sunk tractors before, I shut it down when I realized it wasn't going to do anything more than spin in deeper. Got my other tractor out and was using it to pull the sprayer away from the 3-pt, and it started spinning in. The older one doesn't have a FEL, I didn't have my bucket on the newer one. Several inches of rain followed and both slowly sank. Dug trenches to drain the swamp, slowly dug the muck out from under them, used a heavy pallet on some wooden posts as a base to push up my front wheels using my bucketless FEL, dug wheel paths (deeper ones on the high side so I could unlean the tractor), lined them with firewood, drove the new one out and used it to chain onto & pull the other one out.

Tomorrow I'll figure out how to get the sprayer out, and then start all over again next week, between the forecasted, seemingly never ending Oregon winter this year. Probably will get stuck again, just part of the job in these parts...

 

[New2NC]

You were not stuck ... no mud on the bucket !!! Did you try and use the curl feature to push yourself back?

I did try to use the bucket to lift the tractor out. There was slight progress but lifting up the front end made the bushhog go deeper. I took the shovel out to dig the muck out around the attachment. It was like a suction cup back there! In the end, I relied on the kindness of a neighbor.

It makes me feel better that a bunch of you have had similar experiences. Thanks for sharing.

 

[LarryD]

Hold on! Mousefield...that's your chicken coop in that last pic? Dang! I don't think you can legally call that a coop

That's kinda what I was thinking. I can only count 4 chickens in the photo so does each one get 50sqft? More like chicken condos.:laughing:

 

[bigbull338]

dont feel bad every1 will stick a tractor that bad sooner or later.the winter of 2008 an 2009 we stuck our 85hp 2wd drive tractor bad 3 or 4 times.an by bad i mean winch truck bad,so we called our friends with 90hp to 115hp 4x4 tractors an they pulled us out.an then i went an bought the 52hp 4x4 tractor an parked the 2wd drive tractor.

 

[Deere Dude]

Truck driver saves himself. [VIDEO]

Does this count as stuck? A friend sent me this and all I could think of is, wow!

 

[Deere Dude]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4uvmW0AqqY&feature=player_embedded]Russian tractor broken in half ))) - YouTube[/ame]

This is not what to do when getting unstuck:laughing::laughing:

 

[Mousefield]

Hold on! Mousefield...that's your chicken coop in that last pic? Dang! I don't think you can legally call that a coop

You are right, "legally" it is the chicken palace and
I have the sign to prove it. :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:
Friend of mine made the sign and it is now on the outside wall of the palace.

 

[Mousefield]

That's kinda what I was thinking. I can only count 4 chickens in the photo so does each one get 50sqft? More like chicken condos.:laughing:

Got 85 egg layers and one rooster in this coop. :thumbsup:
The finished half is 28 X 12 feet. Lots of room for the guests. :laughing:

 

[RaydaKub]

Truck driver saves himself. [VIDEO]

Does this count as stuck? A friend sent me this and all I could think of is, wow!

Are you kidding me?!?!?!?! That's amazing!

 

[k0ua]

Truck driver saves himself. [VIDEO]

Does this count as stuck? A friend sent me this and all I could think of is, wow!

Would never have believed it without seeing it.!

James K0UA

 

[LarryD]

Got 85 egg layers and one rooster in this coop. :thumbsup:
The finished half is 28 X 12 feet. Lots of room for the guests. :laughing:

OK, so that is almost 4sqft per layer. You certainly can't be accused of "factory farming" with those numbers. :thumbsup:

For what it's worth, SWMBO only buys free range eggs or gets them from neighbors. Will not buy anything that has been abused or loaded with chemicals. Our meat comes from a local butcher who only processes happy cows/pigs/chickens from local growers. :licking:

 

[danceswithdirt]

Certainly have been stuck before but the worst was years ago about 21-22yrs old. working a road job next to a river operating 792 jd excavator. Supervisor told me dont go past x spot, looks to wet. Well at that age of course I knew more than he did. Stuck at 2:30 pm, unstuck at 2:00am. Water got 8" deep in the cab. Had a d7 another trackhoe and crane helping and took most of the nite. Kept my job but was scared to walk machine into anything wetter than a mornin dew for long time.

 

[Maxify55]

Nothing but Ag tires for me but I do run turf tires on my other toys....Uh, equipment.

 

[wedge40]

Question about both videos. Why not unhook what ever you're towing?

I've been lucky so far, I've never been stuck, but I've been "hung-up" often. Once I learned how to use the FEL to either push or pull myself out it wasn't that bad. Then again if it's muddy I just don't do it.

Wedge

 

[RaydaKub]

Question about both videos. Why not unhook what ever you're towing?

I've been lucky so far, I've never been stuck, but I've been "hung-up" often. Once I learned how to use the FEL to either push or pull myself out it wasn't that bad. Then again if it's muddy I just don't do it.

Wedge

The tractor torn in 1/2, it looks like a big liquid manure tank. If it were full, there would be a lot of weight on the tractor hitch. You might not be able to find the bottom of the muck with the tongue jack in order to lift it off. Or if you got it off, it might roll.

The truck is fully submerged. I didn't even know there was a trailer attached until it got up on that sandbar. This is more of a fifth wheel hitch. How do you jack it up? You'd have to be able to swim down and work under water. The bottom is obviously soft, so do you think the jacks would just lift it off? I'd be surprised...

 

[rsewill]

Truck driver saves himself. [URL=""]Video Link: [/URL]

Does this count as stuck? A friend sent me this and all I could think of is, wow!

I imagine there was a lot of fluid change-outs needed.