rockyridgefarm
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Tractors can get stuck!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Thanks, guys, now I know what's coming next..!
Thanks, guys, now I know what's coming next..!
So, how bad did you get your tractor stuck ?
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RedDog
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My Kioti has never been stuck,, for that matter never close to being stuck,,,, but my old Massey Ferguson was quite a few times. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
RedDog
RedDog
Haha... I've had my share
My grandmom owns a farm with a stream that runs throught it. My job (or hobby...) is to mow and clean out the stream. Well... lets just say that if i can get it out with the bucket curl, then I havent been stuck, i have been WARNED. (the problem is when i dont heed the warning) i have been sunk to the drawbar (Ford 555 TLB pulled me out) and up to the front axle (JD had to help me out). im not sure if FWD would have helped or buried me more... ive also had a skidloader stuck too, but that was more high centered. Shame I didnt have a camera for any of those times.
My grandmom owns a farm with a stream that runs throught it. My job (or hobby...) is to mow and clean out the stream. Well... lets just say that if i can get it out with the bucket curl, then I havent been stuck, i have been WARNED. (the problem is when i dont heed the warning) i have been sunk to the drawbar (Ford 555 TLB pulled me out) and up to the front axle (JD had to help me out). im not sure if FWD would have helped or buried me more... ive also had a skidloader stuck too, but that was more high centered. Shame I didnt have a camera for any of those times.
KennyV
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I got stuck at the end of my drive last year while removing snow. I was using the FEL of my BX2200 to push snow over an embankment beside the drive. Went the proverbial hair to far. Left front wheel went down about 6 inches into thin air. Right rear wheel came up off the driveway a corresponding 6 inches. Blood pressure and heart rate went up as well. But the BX stopped just like that. Since the bucket was out over the embankment there was nothing to push against. My wife pulled me out with our truck.
Phil
Phil
It was right after I got my 4100 and was bush hogging the right of way for my 1/2 mile water line, needless to say the line runs through some very soft and muddy ground. I was just off the solid ground when the bush hog got hung up and then the tractor sunk to the axles in 4wd. I could not use the FEL to push or pull because of the bush hog being also sunk in the muck. I was lucky enough to be able to reach the machine with a chain run from my 4wd PU. thankfully no one saw this fiasco. Never did get the black muck stains from my clothes....
Mine was while doing a pond. Like the posts above me, using a box blade to scrape away muck at the rim. Backed in a little too far and down we slid. By time all the silt had a chance to settle in, the rear end of tractor disappeared to the top of the fenders. A dozer to get me out.
Dargo - please tell me nobody was in that machine when that rock slide occurred. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Dargo - please tell me nobody was in that machine when that rock slide occurred. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Back in 73, I was stationed with 12th Marines, an artillery battalion on assignment in Japan, at a base camp at the foot of Mt. Fuji. Fuji had a firing range, and we used it a lot with our 155 towed type Howitzers. One trip I recall, we were “tactical” at the range, meaning the guns were in place, the tents and the five ton trucks were hidden in low spots behind our firing line. We were on a multi-day shoot. I was the range safety officer.
As we were on the fringes of a typhoon passing near, we were inundated with rain during one night. Our six or so people tent was on higher ground; it stayed up in the rain/wind until 5AM. Of course, we were wide awake long before then.
On our land line, we had been communicating with the fire direction center tent, which was a 40 man tent located at the bottom of a BIG ravine. About 2AM, their cots were level with the water in the tent! Everyone and everything in their tent was SOAKED.
The rains stopped about 8AM and our CO decided we’d better try to get our stuff out if we could. Fuji is all volcanic ash, so it soaks up water like a sponge and there is no base to it. Not a good combination!
We packed up all the tents and personal gear, then tried to get the trucks out. Being tactically hidden well in the valleys behind us, the big trucks were now “tactically stuck!” No problem, right—our unit had a mid sized bulldozer that could tow them out.
Only our bulldozer got stuck going to the first truck! It just sat on it’s undercarriage and spun the tracks. We spent a coupla hours tossing anything we could find under the tracks (ammo crates, tree limbs, etc) to no avail.
A call to the base camp dispatched TWO TANKS to rescue us. With their power, they made short work of dragging the dozer out, then each truck, followed by the six howitzers. They towed each piece to the road. A mere 6 hours later, we were on our way home. Wet, cold, and very muddy. But we sure liked those tanks!
I have pics filed away, but my words will have to do for now. Sorry.
Ron, former 2nd Lt, USMCR
As we were on the fringes of a typhoon passing near, we were inundated with rain during one night. Our six or so people tent was on higher ground; it stayed up in the rain/wind until 5AM. Of course, we were wide awake long before then.
On our land line, we had been communicating with the fire direction center tent, which was a 40 man tent located at the bottom of a BIG ravine. About 2AM, their cots were level with the water in the tent! Everyone and everything in their tent was SOAKED.
The rains stopped about 8AM and our CO decided we’d better try to get our stuff out if we could. Fuji is all volcanic ash, so it soaks up water like a sponge and there is no base to it. Not a good combination!
We packed up all the tents and personal gear, then tried to get the trucks out. Being tactically hidden well in the valleys behind us, the big trucks were now “tactically stuck!” No problem, right—our unit had a mid sized bulldozer that could tow them out.
Only our bulldozer got stuck going to the first truck! It just sat on it’s undercarriage and spun the tracks. We spent a coupla hours tossing anything we could find under the tracks (ammo crates, tree limbs, etc) to no avail.
A call to the base camp dispatched TWO TANKS to rescue us. With their power, they made short work of dragging the dozer out, then each truck, followed by the six howitzers. They towed each piece to the road. A mere 6 hours later, we were on our way home. Wet, cold, and very muddy. But we sure liked those tanks!
I have pics filed away, but my words will have to do for now. Sorry.
Ron, former 2nd Lt, USMCR
