Field claims yet another tractor!!!

[timswi]

I did something similar with my RTV1100...Ended up taking an aluminum floor jack to the machine and used pieces of 1/2" plywood to effectively build a deck under the machine. My issue was opposite of yours, had a power angle plow on front and no trees anywhere in sight...I shall never repeat that one.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Any chance once you get all your machinery out of that swamp you could find some way to drain it ? LOL

 

[RedNeckRacin]

Be careful using a come-a-long if that is what you decide. I blew a 2 ton one apart trying to pull an 8n or 9n tractor out that was buried to the axles. I don't use cheater bars on them anymore!

 

[bcp]

Be careful using a come-a-long if that is what you decide. I blew a 2 ton one apart trying to pull an 8n or 9n tractor out that was buried to the axles. I don't use cheater bars on them anymore!

Use enough winch and it should come right out.





Bruce

 

[JRobyn]

Any chance once you get all your machinery out of that swamp you could find some way to drain it ? LOL

If I remember Zachary correctly, it was pretty much ALL swamp

Zachary Seafood still there? I sure could use me a sack fulla mudbugs!:licking:

- Jay

 

[dragoneggs]

Yeah, like they say "pics or it didn't happen ".

ditto... the only reason I opened this thread was to see a stuck pic! :laughing:

 

[son of man]

loop a chain over your front axle down around the chain tied to your rear rim. This keeps the front from climbing to much and will allow you to pull yourself out. Use low gear and take it easy, should walk itself out this way.

Thanks oldnslo! I was trying to think of a way to keep the front end down. However, all my ideas involved attaching a recovery strap to somebody else's truck. But I figured I may as well let them tow me if I was going to go that route. I didn't even think about your idea - probably b/c I used all 80ft of chain to reach the tree. I'm down to 2 20' recovery straps.

 

[son of man]

Where are the pics of this stuck in the mud.

the pics are sort of like the tractor right now - stuck in my wife's phone. lol I tried to upload them this morning but it didn't work.

Yeah, like they say "pics or it didn't happen ".

I wish "it didn't happen" lol

 

[son of man]

Have you consider heavy duty come along? plus you could always use the come along for other duties.

Thanks for the suggestion! I had heard of them but never even knew what they were before this thread. how difficult are they to use? it seems like the hand crank would be hard to use for a tractor...

 

[son of man]

If you think taking the bush hog off will let the front wheels pull you free from the mud, I would do that and get the tractor unstuck. If the tractor can maneuver well on the more solid ground, then use the tractor to pull the bush hog free from the mud with a log chain while the tractor stays on solid ground. Once you get the bush hog up out of the mud with the chain, then hook it back up to the 3pt and away you go.. Doesn't this sound more safe than anything you have tried?

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I don't have 4WD. So I doubt disconnecting the bush hog will get me out. I was thinking perhaps without the bush hog attached, the chain to the tree method might not raise the front end? However, if I disconnect the bush hog, my next question was going to ask how I should get it out?