Just a funny pic...First time getting her stuck

[Redbug]

On Memorial Day, I was working on building up a road bed and adding a crown, but got too close to the mucky edge with deep ruts, and she slid in. This time, I could not walk the tractor out by curling the bucket. It was in too deep, and the box blade was dragging. So...we had to walk back (about a mile?), and get the Surburban. Moral of the story...don't park too far away from your project and it's easier than you think to get stuck.

 

[SCDolphin]

Oh for a set of R-1's Ha Ha

 

[gordon21]

I believe your road bed needs some rock. Crowning mud and dirt merely double the numbers of directions the mud will slide.

 

[mikeyd]

Happens to everyone...I buried the skidsteer tonight. Slid off the trail into the deep muck, used the dozer to pull it out. Life goes on.

 

[Redbug]

Ohhh Lordy Hugh...I don't think R1's would have worked much either...I suspect it would have just dug itself deeper since it was so soft already, R1's are narrower...and the lugs would have filled up no matter what kind of tire you had on. Those ruts were probably near 3 1/2 to 4 feet in places where people had wallowed and used a winch to pull out. I had used the loader to fill most of the other wallows in the road and added more height in the middle for rain to run off.

I think if you just fill in a wallow it will reform in a roadbed unless you have some place for the water to drain to. That is why a crown and the ditch are so important in a road.

I used the box blade to pull material up from the sides of the road to the middle. Then tilted the BB and made passes down the road create slope.

I am in a learning curve here, is that the way you all do it? With a BB and loader how do you all create the ditch part?

 

[66gladiator]

Mud, what's that? All we have here is dust!

Waitin' on the rain.....................

 

[gotcha]

On Memorial Day, I was working on building up a road bed and adding a crown, but got too close to the mucky edge with deep ruts, and she slid in.

I'm sure glad you call the tractor a she as a HE would never have gotten into a postion like that.
The Gotcha Man

 

[Redbug]

Gotcha...Well, I had to do as she SAID!

66Glad...This clay in the river bottom swamps really holds the water, there is still lots of soil moisture in the bottoms. But in the sand hill country it is like the Sahara, and water just seeps away.

 

[AndyMA]

I'll bet you could have gotten out if you dropped the boxblade and used the loader to pull yourself out. You might have even made it out with boxblade attached.

 

[SteveA]

Been there.....done that........ a few weeks ago. Probably won't be the last time I bury the orange weed eater.