Got my little girl stuck

[snorider]

Looks like you were stuck good /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Glad you got out.

Joe

 

[caylor]

Great Posts, I know what it is like to sink a Dozer like that in East Texas, mine happened while clearing an overgrown fence line. I think I live near you, where North of Tyler are you?

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm just south on Winona. Good access off I-20 with all utilities available. Sewar was the main factor in buying the land, but an 8 inch water line really helped.

 

[Dargo]

I do, I don't go for that Tom Petty song "Free Ballin'", or was that song "Free Fallin'"? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hey, 4 years of Latin taught me how to read, interpret, and quote all sorts of important pieces of advice as such. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[caylor]

I am just up the road from you, North of Big Sandy off of SH155 and FM1002 in Shady Grove. Which side of Winona, the HWY 155 side or the 271 side? Its good to have a neighbor here in TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

Dad toaught me how to get the D5 at work unstuck once. I got her down in a spot aroundthe corner from the nearest place to tug on it with the scraper. Dad had come back from heart surgery and couldnt handle more than 10 pounds at a time. He got me the saw and an old cheap 3/8ths link chain and we cut it into 6 foot links. then I took the tractor and cut a few ten foot trees 5 inches in diameter and also ont about 10 inches in diameter. Since the drawbar was down I took the shovel and dug out for the logs to pass under it. He told me about when he was a boy about 16 running a D6 by hisselfgetting down and using this method. You lay the logs behind the tracks under the drawbar. lool pe secton of chain around each end of the log then take the 2 loose ends of chain on each side and hook them in the slots where your track pads eadges are on each side of the track chain. do this on both tracks when the pads are at the most seperated positions going over the sprocket. put dozer into reverse and it will such that log under the machine about five feet and repeat. then pull it under the machin then use the larger logs. What it does is build a pad under themachine or a mat. When the logs get under the blade trunions they break the chains. I had to use four logs in my ordeal but it got me out. Its pretty simple do do but yo must take care and use low grad chains so you wont have to manually cut them loose orstrip a finaldrive out on the dozer.

 

[Soundguy]

Though we use them 'before' we get stuck.. we made some mats similar to dragline mats for our excavator and dozer. They consisted of 6x6 or 8x8 rough cut oak, and steel cable. Drill the oak planks for the cable.. pass it thru, leaving a few inches play between each timber. Add eyelets on each end to terminate the steel cable. Makes a great matt that can also be drug.

Soundguy

 

[have_blue]

Good job! It's nice to have a back hoe just in Case you get stuck! If that would have been me, I would probably have shot it and finished burying it in place. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I've filled in wet places with dry dirt and ended up with some treacherous "jelly holes" AKA "quaking earth" until a good rain or 2 settled them down.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Thats what Im building for my mini excavator Im making mine aout of 1.250 oak slabs off a mill. Itd be hard to use a dozer on a mat pushing dirt . Ive used mats before under cranes,loaders, and ecavators alot. The reason Im going with a thin mat is to make it more flexible to toake the form of the rock beaches at the lake. THey are pea gravel and also som shaprer chert stones to. Im trying to save my old rubber tracks a few more months till I can get some steel ones. Im gonna use lag bots to hold them together and space them about 4 inches edge to edge in 8foot by 8 foot panels.

 

[willfick]

There's a similar way to use a log and a chain to get a tractor unstuck. It's insanely dangerous, though. I've done it, thirty years ago when I was both young and stupid. Now that I'm no longer young I wouldn't even describe it for fear somwbody would get ideas.
Wm