Embarrassing project: getting tractor unstuck

[JerryG]

Glad that you got it out. If it had been mine, it would have drove me nuts until it was out. I think that this is the longest that any one has been stuck on TBN sense the member that had his tractor at the bottom of a hill and couldn't get back out. But, he had some kind of hydro problem, not mud. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Defective]

Dang!

He beat me to it...

All I got is this little purple one with a BIG RED BUTTON.

 

[Investorguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Glad that you got it out. If it had been mine, it would have drove me nuts until it was out. I think that this is the longest that any one has been stuck on TBN sense the member that had his tractor at the bottom of a hill and couldn't get back out. But, he had some kind of hydro problem, not mud. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif )</font>

Sweet. You know that I was going for the record. I coulda had her out days ago, but I let it carry on just to make for a better story. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[sodamo]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Fear not, Grashopper.* For he who has never stuck his tractor has never tasted the joy of true freedom once it was unstuck.
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How true, how true, how true /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

David

 

[Reg]

WOW !!!
Pleased to see you finally got out.
Thanks for the "ahead knowledge" (-:

As I was reading through it I was looking for words like "ground anchor", "Bruce anchor", or "Danforth Anchor".

As a general tactic, has anyone had success with a GOOD boat anchor and winch in situations like this ? I'm thinking 60 or 100 lb muck anchors that dig deeper the harder you pull.
Being out in the flat, with no trees to tie to - tie into the muck itself (-:

 

[turnkey4099]

I think physics wouild get you as your anchor has to have at least as much holding power as the thing you are trying to move. That would have to be one _big_ anchor.

Harry K

 

[BIG_R_Jr_3]

I just logged in and was glad too that you got out of that muddy situation...

Now that your out have you given any more thoughts of that TREE you were going after in the first place ??

I'm just curious, I too have been in sticky situations playing around with trees that I was after.....

 

[CurlyDave]

Do you have any pictures of the cable setup for the actual pull?

I would really like to see how that was done.

 

[Reg]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I think physics wouild get you as your anchor has to have at least as much holding power as the thing you are trying to move. That would have to be one _big_ anchor.

Harry K )</font>

Well, maybe not ALL of it - unless the tractor is DEAD and can't contribute anything to the effort at all.

Plows are designed to "cut and skim" and there is a limit to how many of them can be pulled through the ground by any particular tractor. {2, 3, 4, 5 bottom, etc. no surprises there}

Anchors are designed to bury and hold against a horizontal pull, the more you pull the deeper they go. I'd guess 6,000 lb of holding power could be had for ~$100 in something that could be carried out to the rescue site in a gardenway cart - as I said, GUESSING. Anchors are also designed to release easily with a vertical pull, so when you winch yourself to it just pull it up with the 3pt hitch.

Anyway, just a suggestion and I was curious if anyone had tried it. Sailor's call it "Kedging" when they throw out an anchor and winch it in to drag the boat back onto water when it has run aground. So it wasn't an original thought or invention (-:

 

[1948berg]

Ground anchors comes in a large variety of shapes and seizes, some are easy to make yourself, like these pics, other, like the ones the miliyary used, large screws is harder to make yourself.
http://www.forgetec4x4.co.uk/i/groundanchor.jpg
http://www.forgetec4x4.co.uk/i/sandgrips25.jpg