STUCK 790

[creeper]

I didn't want this to be my first pic,but I thought some of you would get a good laugh out of it.I was cleaning out some deris that was holding back the creek and was doing pretty good..... until I went a little too far.I couldn't stop when the front end was stuck, I had too lift myself up and drive on thru! The worst part is a bx had to pull me out and I had to tap dance on all the pedals,but it beets being stuck in the creek. I still got a lot to learn about my limitations. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[creeper]

try again web page

 

[Whiskey]

Creeper:

hahahahahahahaha...ok I'm laughing with you not at you. Me thinks if you check the fine print in the owners manuel...it says "not to be used as a floation device"!

I've been doing the exact same thing, cleaning out a dranage ditch in the back of my property and I haven't yet put the tractor in the ditch. It's still got a foot of water in it with the bottom being nuthing but muck. I got one edge cleaned out and got the fellow next door to bring his backhoe over and scoop it out.

Whiskey

 

[JeffSpencer]

Creeper,

Not trying to be judgmental as I don't know all of the variables to your past situation. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif From looking at the picture, it seems that you could've locked the differential, curled your bucket to full "dump", set the bucket on the ground, and then using rear motion while curling the bucket (in), slowly creeped (pun) out. The bucket would push while your wheels were turning backwards..Did you try that?

 

[Dutch445]

Creeper,
Isn't seat time great!
even if you get stuck, you learn lots!

glad everything "came out" okay!

/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[creeper]

Yes I tried alot more than that before I let that little orange bug pull me out. The problem was the rear wouldnt lift at all so the loader curl was just dead-heading against the creek bank. I had to lock the diff. several times,and alternated on the brake pedal alot. One thing I wasn't aware of is that the front axle is apparently limited slip , I could not get the right front to spin or grab at all.I'm always open to advice from members though, thanks for checkin on me. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Cactus]

You could have probably used the loader to help pull yourself out.

 

[rdln]

No way, especially with r-4s, he is against an 18 inch greasy wall with no hard edge to grab and a lot of weight to push if anything he could have made it backing up the bank at a slight angle, the corners of those tires bite the best.

 

[dicker]

That's what I thought when I first saw the picture. After exhausting all options of going forwards, if I were still mobile, I would have tried to turn it around, lift up the front end with the bucket and tried to back up the hill one tire at a time with diff. lock.

Although, not being there allows us to be arm chair quarterbacks.

Richard

 

[KubotaSteve]

I think you did the right thing. Besides everybody's been stuck before and if you haven't then you aren't using your machine /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. I've had to pull my tractor out of mud with the old man's Massey Ferguson and/or pick up. At least you gave it a valiant effort to get it unstuck. I find that is when I usually learn something new about my tractor.

 

[creeper]

Yah. I learned I probably neede a little more momentum and probably had no buisiness being on a creek in the rain. But I just got the thing about 2 weeks ago and wanted to get some seat time.Made for a little conversation anyway.

 

[Cactus]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> No way </font> )</font>

Those are pretty big words...I have been in situations a lot worse than that and walked myself out of some pretty big holes with my loader,I was in a hole the other day and the fan was blowing water and mud back up on my feet on the platform.
But of course I have R-1 tires.

 

[creeper]

When the ground your loader is on is to soft to hold when curking the bucket and your draw bar mount is bottomed out, there is not much you can do.And yes Im sure the ag tires make a BIG difference.Sounds like your having plenty of fun tho. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[JDgreen227]

"The worst part is a bx had to pull me out"....

Heck, someday you might get a chance to pull the bx out.
Thanks for sharing your story...I've always been fond of saying the only people who don't goof up are the people who don't do anything. A mistake like yours only proves you were trying to do something.

/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[KubotaSteve]

Saying you have been in a lot worse situations than that just from looking at a picture is pretty big words as well. I've had my tractor stuck before and it looked as if nothing was wrong, but it was setting at just the right angle with the weight shifted in such a way that it could not get free. And once you get high centered, I don't care if you have R-1's, tracks, steel cleets or whatever they won't do you a big of good if they aren't touching the ground.
There was a guy on another tractor board that ended up flipping his JD (can't remember # I think it was 4310) trying to get up a steep muddy bank that gave way. He eventually got a tow truck to help him get it out. It's better to be safe than sorry regardless of what has to pull you out.

 

[JeffSpencer]

Yep! KubotaSteve is right. You can't tell by looking at a picture. I've had my 4200 stuck with the FEL and the Back hoe on it, on more than one occasion. Had to get the 4wd truck to get it out. I've operated alot of different equipment for a long, long time. Sometimes, S**T happens...

 

[btolle]

Anyone who has not had a tractor stuck bad enough that they had to be pulled out hasn't had much seat time.

I used to carry chains and a come-along on my 8N because I knew I was going to have to be pulled out on a regular basis. Fortunately there were enough trees around that I always had one handy to hook to and get myself out.

Now you are a tractor "veteran".

Bill Tolle

 

[Cactus]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> Saying you have been in a lot worse situations than that just from looking at a picture is pretty big words as well. </font> )</font>

I wish I had a picture to show you.... when you can't see the front tires because of the muck and the loader will hardly pull out of the muck because it pulls a vacuum in the muck and the mud is level with the platform for your feet.

 

[Cactus]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> Had to get the 4wd truck to get it out </font> )</font>

Is that the best you can do...???

 

[JeffSpencer]

Not sure what you mean Cactus...