Ever get your tractor stuck?

[RegWaters]

Just a little Pic .

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Curling the bucket and using the back-hoe is the only way to get the machine out of just about any mucky situation and the back-hoe works great getting you in and out of most tight situations

 

[Hillbilly]

Thats ok if you have a bucket and back hoe.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Use a bag of masonry cement. Do not use mortar mix. Masonry cement is the stuff bricklayers mix with sand and water to make mortar. Mortar mix is sand and masonry cement. Sand does not do well to get a tractor out of mud. The lime in masonry cement will dry up the ground in the immediate area and allow your tractor some traction. You may have to lift the wheels up a bit depending on how bad you are stuck, but I have never gotten myself stuck too bad. The main thing to remember when you are stuck is to STOP trying to drive yourself out.

 

[utahmule]

Is this what you guys are talking about?
They're easy to store and come rated up to 11,000lbs.
http://www.pullpal.com

Eric

 

[Apex]

One day while working in a very wet field in Texas, when I was about 13 (I'm 40 now), I got my uncles tractor stuck. Next, I got my uncles old three on the tree shift pickup stuck while trying to pull the tractor free from the mud. I wasn't looking forward to what my uncle was going to think when he got home. Anyway, some Spanish speaking only amigos walked from the local pub towards my location in the muddy field. The men laughed briskly and then started speaking rapidly and point furiously. My Spanish was poor and I wasn’t sure what they were up to. The men had me out in 20 minutes with the tools that were right in front of me all along. I’m sure they were laughing because I was young and green and they remembered learning this lesson themselves as young men. I had been trying to free the tractor for about 90 minutes. See my crude attachment for an explanation of how they managed to get me out in less 20 minutes. Mark, this really doesn't answer your question because you say "with no help". However, I thought I would pass it along anyway. I have used this same process for the last 27 years with my tractors. It works and once you collect the necessary items, keep them in the barn for later use. If you have a tractor, YOU WILL use these items again in the future. See attachment!

 

[glennmac]

Apex, what keeps the fulcrum from sinking? Seems like this would work best only if there were solid ground right next to the tractor wheel. If you had to place the fulcrum far away, you would lose all the leverage.

 

[Hillbilly]

Looks like the thing to have!!!!!!

 

[Gatorboy]

I'm not sure what you would do. I got stuck just last weekend. My Chevy K3500 barely made it budge. Thank goodness my neighbor in the back has a tractor and could come to my rescue.

Check out my stuck Kubota (there are more pictures you can see from that site as well)

Regards,
Dave "Gatorboy" Hoffmann
Fallston, Maryland

 

[dmccarty]

I'm impressed by a couple of things in the picture. I take it the tractor is 2WD. That does not look like alot of mud to me. I have had my JD 4700 in mud/clay up and over the front axle and up to the bottom of the rim on the back tires. I sure did not do it on purpose. I was not having to much trouble moving but when I saw what I had driven into I put the tractor into 4WD just to make sure I got out ASAP. Maybe without 4WD I would have been stuck... /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Impressively little mud...... Scary....

Thanks for the picture...
Dan McCarty