Getting stuck

TresCrows · Nov 17, 2001

Here is an attached pic of my 'bota BX stuck for the second time in my "dry" pond /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif . Wife observing the situation in disgust. It was not especially diffucult to pull free, fortunately the Tundra is automatic. When we were in college my wife had a Renault R5. It had a dead battery so I pushed it with my car (a Chevy Vega--and you wonder why I hate GM?) while my wife got in her R5. I told her to "pop" the clutch when I honked the horn and so away we went. I honked the horn and she popped the clutch ---- over and over again till both bumpers became fused into one. I jumped out of the now mangled pair and asked "what the "h--l" happened"? She said -- "I popped the clutch just like you said" -- I said -- "I told you to pop the clutch --- once -- not over and over again". She cried -- I fussed --- but I learned my lesson so I had a knife handy to cut the BX free just in case my wife interpreted -- "ease back slowly" as pedal to the metal! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif J

ronjhall · Nov 17, 2001

TresCrows
Glad to see you got your tractor unstuck without getting your wife to upset. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Anytime I have a project that requires wife's assistance she starts on her favorite complaint about what are getting me into know. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif It's a good thing I can't remember what it was that I got her into and I'm afraid to ask her. I'm sure she has a list somewhere./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Check out a couple of the treads by glennmac. He has had more experience with stuck tractor than others here. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

hayden · Nov 17, 2001

I've had pretty good luck inching myself out of similar spots with the loader. Have you tried that? Of course I can't see your real situation from the picture, but from what I can see it looks like a spot where that trick might work next time. You roll the bucket all the way forward, lower to the ground and lift the front of the tractor a bit, then slowly roll back while attempting to drive backwards. I find the extra push from a few cycles with the bucket is often enough to get dislodged.

jhburke · Nov 17, 2001

When I was in the army in Germany. I went to the photo lab and the german national that worked there was trying to straighten out a VW beetle bumper. I asked what happened. It was winter time and he had slid off the road. When another motorist stopped to help, he hooked a tow strap from bumper to bumper. He told the motorist to pull him about 30 kw. Needless to say the motorist tryed to hit 30 from a standing start. He got back on road but his bumper was in a nice V shape. LOL

JATO_RaT · Nov 17, 2001

I think this is where a automatic transmission really works well. Whether its pulling out a stuck vehicle or it being stuck, an automatic is well suited for it.

rbargeron · Nov 17, 2001

Mark is right - the automatic allows gradual application of force and is much better than a hammerblow.

Another thing I keep handy is a nylon tow strap. (They are cheap in tool catalogs) The nice thing about them is you can indeed "yank" the stuck vehicle out, even if the tow vehicle doesn't have much traction. Start moving the tow vehicle when there's still a foot of slack - the strap has enough cushion to smoothly transfer the momentum of the moving tow vehicle when the slack is taken up. This method is also good for pulling stuck cars back on to snowy roads. Make sure the hooks are around something rugged at each end (not the bumper).

njrqs · Nov 17, 2001

Why is it, no matter what we do, they always seem to "look on in disgust" /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

Neil from OZ.

Kubota-monkey · Nov 18, 2001

I was admiring your truck... Tundras are great arent they? Do you have the V8...I went with the V6 manual, BTW- Nice tractor too/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

The Ben from MA /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

TresCrows · Nov 18, 2001

Ben, no it is a 4WD TRD V8. Sometimes I wish I had stayed with the smaller Tacoma. Off road it is a pig compared to my little Toyota. It would be great if they offered the V8 in the Tacoma.
Hayden, your suggestion of using the loader to lift the front etc. I did try that but the ground had turned to jello /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif and the loader just sunk in. You are right, if I had been smart I could have gotten perhaps a few old pieces of plywood and set under the loader and then I bet it would have allowed me to inch my way out. I will try that NEXT time! Since it has not rained an appreciable amount here since April I may not have to worry. When I came here from Arizona I thought I was moving to a somewhat wetter climate, should have brought my cactus.
You should have seen how I cleared out most of the dead and dry cattails. I sprayed them with 30 gallons of diesel fuel and 10 gallons of gasoline. The fumes collected in the low pond and the EXPLOSION was extraordinary. I cannot recommend this method as it singed my hair and now I have no eyebrows /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif .
Has anyone come up with a means of locking the 3-point up. I was thinking to have to chain hooks welded on the ROPS about midway up so that a chain could hook there and then down to the implement (boxblade) and thus hold it up so that the MMM could be raised and lowered? Normally I do not keep the MMM on when I use the boxblade but sometimes it might be useful to have it available. J

frank_f15 · Nov 18, 2001

trescrows: from reading your last post , i take it you expect there to be a NEXT TIME (for getting it stuck?) 30 gal. of diesel? and 10 gal. of gas? good lord man! that must have been one heck of an explosion. glad u are not hurt, but may i suggest u find a better way to rid yourself of catails? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif