STUCK 790

[keeney]

REALLY STUCK is when you end up pulling pieces off your machine trying to pull it out.

Like when the framing crew on my house project got their Lull construction forklift stuck in the backyard (I was building during MN's wettest summer ever). They had a heavy crane-truck on-site that day with a long enough cable to pull on it from the dry pavement. Unfortunately, they hooked the cable on to the wrong part of the forklift (the forklift owner had been called away to a fire - he was also the town's volunteer fire chief). They pulled the end of the fork assembly off the boom, stripping out the 2" diameter nut of the side-tilt mechanism.

Owner was not happy when he returned.

Second try they wrapped the cable around the front axle - much better choice.

- Rick

 

[mwood]

Last fall, the neighbors (300+ acre dairy farm) hired a combine to come get their corn in. Turned out the driver got it stuck in 3 feet of mud and it took two ~100 HP Farm Tractors and a few hours to get him free. Quite a sight!

 

[JDgreen227]

Going to tell you guys about something that happened to my buddy about ten years ago. He had this new modular home delivered to his lot on two trailers, the foundation was ready and the crew was there to move the sections up by the foundation and slide them into place. Each section was about 40 feet long and 16 feet wide.

This was during the spring thaw season, but the first section was close to the foundation and went on quickly. They hooked up a medium sized bulldozer to the second trailer, and for some reason the operator decided to pull the trailer about 200 feet DOWNHILL and turn that section around, rather than reverse about 20 feet and then pull forward to line up the second trailer.

You can likely guess what happened, as the dozer began to turn at the bottom of the hill, the trailer began sinking into the soft ground. He was able to drag it to within 60 feet of the top before it became hopelessly mired. The crew hooked a 10 wheel dump truck to the trailer and tried to push it from the back with the dozer...it moved a few feet and then the trailer started to tip over... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.

After some phone calls, local farmers bought down two huge tractors and hooked them to the dump truck...still no forward movement was possible. Finally they obtained an 8 wheel drive tractor that was on reasonably solid ground and had enough traction to move the other three vehicles.

I was taking film pictures of the entire process, the best one is of my friend as he is standing amid the ruins of his formerly pristine back yard.

 

[KennedyDiesel]

That looks like a pretty nasty stuck pic. Having been in similar situations, primarily with trucks and ATV's, I realize that pictures typically do not do any justice.

That said, being in that situation, I'd probably truy to tie off to a tree and use the bucket rollback to pull fwd. From there, you'd need to tie off so it doesn't sink back and rehook.

Some times raising or lowering the bucket can also help.