Pictures of freeing stuck equipment with your tractor

[LD48750]

Lesson learned a long time ago.....

 

[Williy]

SOME IDIOTS ARE WORK

willy

 

[Seabeckredneck]

While helping my girlfriend clear her property of many trees, this particular alder was causing me a lot of grief. I dug all around the base, exposing the root ball and then try to push it over... (don't get ahead of me now). Well, this stubborn tree just did not want to go over. It was a muddy mess

. I turned the tractor around and put the FEL up high for leverage and still the dang tree stood proud. So a good friend who was there helping, put his winch cable up high and helped by pulling down as I was pushing with the JD, again with the FEL up high. Well, as the tree finally started going over, the root ball grabbed my FEL and started pulling me with it!!! HOLY SMOKES! I thought I was going to be killed until it settled into the hole with the FEL over the top of the root ball. Since I couldn't raise the FEL any higher and it was hooked on the root ball, it took my F350 in 4 low and a small excavator to pull me out.

 

[RjCorazza]

While helping my girlfriend clear her property of many trees...

That would be a hard one to anticipate!

 

[jon2564]

I was crossing a creek and she suddenly sunk-in good. A friend with a big jeep, winch and snatch-block pulled me out.

 

[Aquabird]

Not a huge job but occasionally get the Zero stuck. Fortunately have other “toys” to pull things out.

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Been there and done that twice. Had to pull my Bad Boy diesel zt out.

 

[rockinbbar]

While helping my girlfriend clear her property of many trees, this particular alder was causing me a lot of grief. I dug all around the base, exposing the root ball and then try to push it over... (don't get ahead of me now). Well, this stubborn tree just did not want to go over. It was a muddy messView attachment 874813View attachment 874814. I turned the tractor around and put the FEL up high for leverage and still the dang tree stood proud. So a good friend who was there helping, put his winch cable up high and helped by pulling down as I was pushing with the JD, again with the FEL up high. Well, as the tree finally started going over, the root ball grabbed my FEL and started pulling me with it!!! HOLY SMOKES! I thought I was going to be killed until it settled into the hole with the FEL over the top of the root ball. Since I couldn't raise the FEL any higher and it was hooked on the root ball, it took my F350 in 4 low and a small excavator to pull me out.

I did a similar operation with my big skid steer...

I had a big oak that needed pushing over so I could move it away from a fenceline. I had the loader up high, and pushed and it started giving ground. I kept the momentum going until the tree fell, but that big root ball was right at the front of the cab, and when it raised up, it took my expensive demolition door off and up with it!

Took me a day's work of bending that door frame so it would fit again. The polycarbonate door was a thick one, and survived, but now has some spiderweb small cracks looking through the bottom.

Lesson learned.

 

[Frxdy]

I have to say, I've never been stuck to the point where I could not use the bucket on my FEL to lever myself out. The 'trick' if you will to getting stuck and unstuck is to not keep digging for China and use some common sense.... and if it looks wet and or muddy, avoid it until it dries up.

I once left a backhoe out in the back field for 2 months waiting until it dried up. Luckily I don't need it too often! I've told my wife "You can't get a backhoe stuck, but you do make a choice of how much of a mess to leave behind".

 

[rockinbbar]

I once left a backhoe out in the back field for 2 months waiting until it dried up. Luckily I don't need it too often! I've told my wife "You can't get a backhoe stuck, but you do make a choice of how much of a mess to leave behind".

Had to do the same thing with my 15' batwing cutter.

It sunk one fall when I was bush hogging, and I had to unhook from it and leave it. It's a wonder I didn't stick the tractor too.
That cutter weighs 5000 pounds, and it was on bottom. went back several times to get it out, but it stayed over 4 months before it dried out enough to pull it free.

I was VERY lucky it was my last job of fall, and didn't need it in the off season... Otherwise it would have been an expensive recovery operation.

 

[Al Kramer]

Not a huge job but occasionally get the Zero stuck. Fortunately have other “toys” to pull things out.

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Just curious, but what were you mowing? Those yellow blooms look awesome.