Is This Bad for FEL?

Anonymous Poster · May 25, 2003

Like everyone has said themselves, I have also done that trick. I've gotten stuck a lot during the last winter and once, I was stuck in a way that the front tires wouldn't move when I was using the hoe to pull myself out because there was this large hump, so I did that trick and got out just fine! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Blake
WA

MLB · May 26, 2003

( i had a guy digging a new septic system for me,he had a big deep wide trench dug and decided he wanted to work from the orher side, so he just used the fel and BH to skip over the trench, was a mazing to watch. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif would i try it? ont till i pratciced on a 6" trench /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

Small potatoes. SOmeone got those pics of the guy mounting a RAILROAD CAR with his FEL and BH? THAT was amazing! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Anonymous Poster · May 31, 2003

Thanks guys, I would not have thought to do this. Another tool in the bag of tricks. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

BREW · May 31, 2003

HOW ABOUT STUCK IN NEW GROUND ON A DITCH, FEL OF NO PRODUCTIVE ASSISTANCE. I USED MY DODGE DEISEL TO PULL THE TRACTOR(970- 97 MODEL) /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

gordon · May 31, 2003

The bucket roll is a standard to help get unstuck. Or as a friend puts it. I"m not stuck I just can't move. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Here is the link to the backhoe being loaded into the railcar.
Dancing backhoe

It's the navy safety page. Some of the pictures there really make you wonder what people were thinking when doing some of these stunts.
Gordon

gerard · May 31, 2003

If you can get out under your own tractor power YOU AIN'T STUCK!!! If you have to get pulled out by ANOTHER machine, THEN you's stuck. Heck in winter when plowing down a steep grade where I pile the snow at the bottom I regularly have to use the bucket to get out and that's in 4wd, ags, AND chains on the rear!!!!!!

rmorgan · May 31, 2003

Jeff--

Could be that's the first time the words "gentle" and "FEL" have been used in the same sentence on this board!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I have a 33D with a 7308 and use it to push/pull until the wheels spin, lift until the rears lighten up, and (about every time I use it) drop the bucket until the front end lifts. I routinely lift the front end to andd/subtract the belly mower. Not to say you can't hurt the machines, but they are built pretty tough. The main thing I try to avoid is a push or pull on one end of the bucket, since it always seemed that might torque or twist things a bit. In general, though, you'll find that these machines are pretty much as tough as their big brothers. Be careful but have fun!!