meledward23
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That hurt, my lungs, laughing so hard.
Yes, that is stuck.
Yes, that is stuck.
Just Something Stupid I Did
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Highbeam
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What do you get out of a muddy ol' cornfield in February? Corn? What a mess he made, will you be able to smooth it out in time for the next crop? Just seems so strange to be doing that now.
Robert_in_NY
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WNY has a very short growing season and bad weather usually comes in during harvest. Since I have to rely on custom cutters to do my harvest I get pushed to the back of the bus. It is common in this area to see corn being harvested in the winter if the weather allows it. Sometimes the weather doesn't allow and the fields are harvested in the spring if there is enough corn left.
The field is a mess on the ends. The center and one side though are fine as they are quite dry. I should not have much trouble fixing the field up though and next time it will be planted with a straw crop so harvest is done early before the field turns to water.
The field is a mess on the ends. The center and one side though are fine as they are quite dry. I should not have much trouble fixing the field up though and next time it will be planted with a straw crop so harvest is done early before the field turns to water.
gotrocks
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I once knew a guy that some people thought was " A stick in the mud "
And he did not even have a tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
And he did not even have a tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
dullpain
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You are not alone - although I do not have a pic. 10 years ago did the exact same with a 1900 Ford I owned. Backfilling a pond , using boxscraper , pushing fill in pond in reverse, went a little to far , sunk , box scraper would not lift high enough to clear mud and rock, STUCK! Had to get neighbor to pull me out with his 90 HP Massey. Embarassed
Farmwithjunk
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Everyone has one "stuck" they'd like to forget. Mine was about 15 years ago. I was still pounding nails (carpenter) every day. The job I was on was about to finish up. There was a Cat highlift sitting outside the building. One afternoon, the job foreman came in and asked if anyone could run it. I had a few hours on one, so I piped up. "Yeah, I can".
There was a hillside next to the building. As the job was winding down, a fence company needed to have some brush and trash pushed out of their way on the edge of the drop-off. It was muddy. The edge of the drop-off was mostly fill dirt. I got just a tick too close. The edge broke loose. I started sliding. First reaction was to drop the loader bucket to stop my slide. OK. Now I'm safe, Let's back this thing up. When I started trying to claw my way back up the hill, she just dug it.
Ever have a bulldozer stuck?
It ended up requiring two BIG semi wreckers to winch me up the hill.
Then they moved me to the office where all I could do was jam the copier.
There was a hillside next to the building. As the job was winding down, a fence company needed to have some brush and trash pushed out of their way on the edge of the drop-off. It was muddy. The edge of the drop-off was mostly fill dirt. I got just a tick too close. The edge broke loose. I started sliding. First reaction was to drop the loader bucket to stop my slide. OK. Now I'm safe, Let's back this thing up. When I started trying to claw my way back up the hill, she just dug it.
Ever have a bulldozer stuck?
It ended up requiring two BIG semi wreckers to winch me up the hill.
Then they moved me to the office where all I could do was jam the copier.
My worst, and think I've posted it here before, so pls forgive me.
In the 80's, I was working for a farmer. He wanted me to take his JD4020D (maybe 100HP) around the perimeter of a pasture he'd just rented and check the fence. So I had fence supplies in the FEL. The pasture had tall grass in it, and a pond at one end.
I was high idling in 7th gear as I surveyed the fence. Got near the low end of the pasture, and heard the motor bog down a little. It really surprised me--just looked like normal grass. So I hit the foot throttle to wide open to drive through it.
Meanwhile, I look at the tire tracks and notice I'm sinking in a coupla inches. Didn't make sense to me, since the ground should be dry and all. But by now, the RPMs were peaking and I was making good progress. Not a problem, I think, as I'll be out of this in a few seconds, whatever it is.
Well, the tracks became deeper, the engine bogged down, and finally, the floation front tires started bulldozing the MUD in front.
I found out later I'd driven into a bog that the owner "forgot" to tell me was there--he knew it.
Tried backing out, but by now, the frame was on the ground and the tires were simply spinning in loose mud.
Walked to a neighbor's house. We went to get the owner's JD4420: more HP and DUALS. We gathered all the steel cable and chain we could find and took off.
Within the next 15 minutes, BOTH tractors were on their axles.
A trip to four area farmers to gather all their cable, chain, and 2" thick nylon rope, plus an IH856 with duals and we were off again. This time, the pulling tractor was almost 100 yds from the bog. Separately, we pulled them out. Ran them down the dirt road for 3 miles to try and fling off the dirt in the duals. Took a lot of cleaning to get it out.
That was a long time ago, and I'll bet the ruts are still in that pasture!
ron
In the 80's, I was working for a farmer. He wanted me to take his JD4020D (maybe 100HP) around the perimeter of a pasture he'd just rented and check the fence. So I had fence supplies in the FEL. The pasture had tall grass in it, and a pond at one end.
I was high idling in 7th gear as I surveyed the fence. Got near the low end of the pasture, and heard the motor bog down a little. It really surprised me--just looked like normal grass. So I hit the foot throttle to wide open to drive through it.
Meanwhile, I look at the tire tracks and notice I'm sinking in a coupla inches. Didn't make sense to me, since the ground should be dry and all. But by now, the RPMs were peaking and I was making good progress. Not a problem, I think, as I'll be out of this in a few seconds, whatever it is.
Well, the tracks became deeper, the engine bogged down, and finally, the floation front tires started bulldozing the MUD in front.
I found out later I'd driven into a bog that the owner "forgot" to tell me was there--he knew it.
Tried backing out, but by now, the frame was on the ground and the tires were simply spinning in loose mud.
Walked to a neighbor's house. We went to get the owner's JD4420: more HP and DUALS. We gathered all the steel cable and chain we could find and took off.
Within the next 15 minutes, BOTH tractors were on their axles.
A trip to four area farmers to gather all their cable, chain, and 2" thick nylon rope, plus an IH856 with duals and we were off again. This time, the pulling tractor was almost 100 yds from the bog. Separately, we pulled them out. Ran them down the dirt road for 3 miles to try and fling off the dirt in the duals. Took a lot of cleaning to get it out.
That was a long time ago, and I'll bet the ruts are still in that pasture!
ron
Highbeam
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I have done that, sort of. My worst stuck ever. It was a 4 foot or so deep pond about 30 feet by 20 feet wide dug into clay and full of water in the summer. I thought I was smart and pumped it out to a ditch. Then I took my 10,000 lb 45 HP bulldozer and started filling. I knew enough to fill it over full and to drive over the fill to add more fill. Well It took a couple of weekends and the water that I didn't pump out managed to saturate the fill below the surface. I was almost done and as I was filling the last bit against the far bank it happened.... I broke through the top crust of the fill and as quick as you can imagine the dozer was laying on its belly pan with tracks helplessly spinning. I had a tilt too as one track dug faster towards china.
The good new is that this dozer had rippers in the rear and a blade in front both with down pressure. I ended up loading logs under the implements and then lifting up the machine a bit with the implements, stuff logs underneath the tracks, lift the implements, more logs under the implements, lift the machine with the implements, more logs under the tracks, on and on until there was a whole lot of logs in the mud supporting the machine. I was able to then back off onto a bed of long logs layed crossways.
By the end of that ordeal I had chainsawed and dumped several trees into the mud, I was messy and the mahine was messy. I pretty much put the machine away for a weekend to rest it.
Not much can pull a dozer out of a hole. I was a little worried about the sensitive nature of pond filling so needed to be out of the pond pronto before some tree hugger showed up.
The good new is that this dozer had rippers in the rear and a blade in front both with down pressure. I ended up loading logs under the implements and then lifting up the machine a bit with the implements, stuff logs underneath the tracks, lift the implements, more logs under the implements, lift the machine with the implements, more logs under the tracks, on and on until there was a whole lot of logs in the mud supporting the machine. I was able to then back off onto a bed of long logs layed crossways.
By the end of that ordeal I had chainsawed and dumped several trees into the mud, I was messy and the mahine was messy. I pretty much put the machine away for a weekend to rest it.
Not much can pull a dozer out of a hole. I was a little worried about the sensitive nature of pond filling so needed to be out of the pond pronto before some tree hugger showed up.
dmartin88
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That is a pretty impressive stuck!
Two weeks ago, we had rain all morning, then I took delivery of a used 763H Bobcat with a log grapple, weighs about 5,500 pounds. Decided to drive around and see what it could lift, then remembered a big log down at the bottom of my property. Visibility isn't great inside a Bobcat and as I drove to the log, didn't realize I was sinking in rather deep. (Funny how that never happens with my BX22?). Next thing I know, I'm in up to the axles, completely stuck, and feeling pretty stupid.
Ended up getting a logging chain and hooking to a tree, then used the grapple to pull myself to higher ground about 2 feet at a time. I wasn't done yet though. Ended up sliding sideways as I pulled myself out and ended straight up against about a 12" oak that was nearly dead. Seemed like a good time to take that oak down.
Finally got to high ground, drug the log to the wood pile to be cut for lumber later and decided I'd put enough hours on the new machine for one day!
Two weeks ago, we had rain all morning, then I took delivery of a used 763H Bobcat with a log grapple, weighs about 5,500 pounds. Decided to drive around and see what it could lift, then remembered a big log down at the bottom of my property. Visibility isn't great inside a Bobcat and as I drove to the log, didn't realize I was sinking in rather deep. (Funny how that never happens with my BX22?). Next thing I know, I'm in up to the axles, completely stuck, and feeling pretty stupid.
Ended up getting a logging chain and hooking to a tree, then used the grapple to pull myself to higher ground about 2 feet at a time. I wasn't done yet though. Ended up sliding sideways as I pulled myself out and ended straight up against about a 12" oak that was nearly dead. Seemed like a good time to take that oak down.
Finally got to high ground, drug the log to the wood pile to be cut for lumber later and decided I'd put enough hours on the new machine for one day!
Robert_in_NY
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Not much can pull a dozer out of a hole. )</font>
I was lucky, when I buried a JD 450G while clearing brush for the pond diggings the owner of the machine was still digging the pond. He came over with his PC120 Komatsu and just reached over me (that is a neat sight), grabbed the blade and picked the front up and turned me around onto better footing and gave me a nudge to get out. A good excavator is about the only thing that can save a dozer. I miss those days /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
I was lucky, when I buried a JD 450G while clearing brush for the pond diggings the owner of the machine was still digging the pond. He came over with his PC120 Komatsu and just reached over me (that is a neat sight), grabbed the blade and picked the front up and turned me around onto better footing and gave me a nudge to get out. A good excavator is about the only thing that can save a dozer. I miss those days /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
