Embarrassing project: getting tractor unstuck

[diggerjim]

For those of us that have beentheredonethat were feeling for you. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I have some experience in similar situations and had luck using small straw or hay bales. Put them behind the back tires and back up on them. Repeat until you are out. Worked on our IH 915 combine. Although we did have to tunnel under the corn head and remove it because it was under about a foot of mud. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Renze]

I wouldnt worry too much about your neighbors tractor being too small. My neighbor used to be a trucker for an electricity company, moving machinery and cable rolls around the country. when he was stuck on a slippery wet grass roadside, once they pulled him out with a 900 kg Opel Corsa car, that could get some grip on the road with a long enough rope.

One of my earliest memories is when i was about 4, my mother using the Volvo 244 ballasted with a trunk full of feed bags, to pull my father with the JD 510 out of the dump pit when he hung it up on a piece of construction rubble. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

The trick was to have the rope long enough to get to a spot where you CAN get grip... Mostly it's just all about that few % you needed.

 

[1948berg]

There is always somebody else worse off!
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[MMM]

Crawfishing ou backwards with fel will work well as long as there's something firm enough under the muck to get a bite on with bucket. I just stuck my rig iwith 1500lb cutter n the pond mowing the steep bank. I had to back out with fel for 50ft to a spot where bank was less steep.

 

[Northstar9126]

A highlift jack, a bunch of blocking and some tall mud boots would be my suggetion. Use the loader to lift the front end to get some blocks under the front tires and the jack to get some under the rears. My second suggestion would be to get a backhoe to fit that tractor /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif. Thats way when the rear end sinks you can use the outriggers from the backhoe to lift the rearend to get some blocks under the tires. Can't count the number of times that I have been in a similar spot. Since I got my Deere with the hoe I have never been stuck to the point where I have had to get help or break out the winch. I am sure the wife will understand the need for the hoe as it will be a money saver in the long run.

 

[Renze]

It seems your biggest problem is the lack of ground clearance of the front axle. Lift it up and toss some poles or whatever fill you have, under the front wheels and use your neighbor's little tractor to pull the boxblade away from behind the tractor after you disattached it.

Then pinch the bucket forks into the ground and curl it back untill the oil starts to whistle through the relief valve. then gently drive backwards in a slow gear while keeping full pressure on the bucket movement, and your neighbors little tractor adding some pull with a long rope from a dry spot. Just avoid any wheelspin because when there's no firm subsoil up to axle depth, even spinning mud slicks will cause the earth to move in all directions, bogging you down more.

Once i had my Zetor 5245 on its belly in pig ****... I used a double chain link and had our 2wd 6718 in crawl gear, pull from firm ground. Since i was alone this evening, i had to put the tractor in lowest gear idle and then hop onto the stuck tractor. The helper just started to dig when i put the stuck 5245 in gear, hopped a foot forward and started to bog doen again. I waited a few seconds for the chain to strain, and again drove forward and had it loose... Both tractors were about equal in weight and it was just peanuts. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[RFB]

Here is an old off-roader technique used prior to nylon tow straps, and it works very well. It relies upon the inertial momentum of the towing mass, as opposed to raw traction or horsepower, and it applies zero shock load to either vehicle.

You will need 2 chains, with a total combined lenght capable of reaching from the towing to the towed vehicle, and 1 old used tire. Attach #1 chain to the stuck vehicle and to the tire. Attach #2 chain to the towing vehicle and the tire. The finished setup goes chain-tire-chain.

The chains and tire will look like this:

Towed []----------O-----------[] Towing

Once all is attached, with a driver in both vehicles, the towing vehicle simply drives away accelerating to about 5 -10 mph.
The elasticity of the tire smoothly transfers inertial force to the towed vehicle and out you come. The tire absorbs all of the shock load. Disclaimer: Non-essential people stand clear.

 

[Doloe]

Investorguy- I sent you a PM. I might be able to help.

 

[Mavrik02]

Well...you have enough suggestions. I feel for you. I did the same thing two months ago but was close enough to a tree to winch myself out.

Good luck!

 

[CurlyDave]

CurlyDave, anyone ever told you that you look like Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier")?

He isn't nearly as good-looking as I am... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif