Stuck L2800

wushaw · Aug 10, 2006

I figured since it is a Kubota then this is the right spot. Well here is my story.
Today I stuck my tractor in my back pond...well not in the pond but close enough.
I decided that since it was so low that I would get a few scoops of dirt/mud and place them close by in a few low spots.
I went in head strong thinking that the dry stuff was not soft....wrong, I went about two feet too far and buried the ft. axle and the FEL & diff lock was no use in the soft mud so I had a brilliant idea....it worked.
I don't recommend this to anybody but when your a one man show...you improvise.
I went and fetched my jeep and all the attchments...chain, draw bar, reciever with clevis and hooked up the the draw bar on the tractor then I jumped in the jeep put her in 4 low let the clutch out pulled the slack out then jumped out of the jeep (yes nobody was drivin) then jumped on the tractor fired her up and with the help of the jeep pullin she pulled right on out, I set the tractor brake then jumped off the tractor then back in the jeep which was still pointed and pullin/digging...well not much with street tires

then disconnected everything and proceded to do what I had origionally set out to do with out getting stuck this time.

In the background of one of the picts is my little Mitsubishi watering a Cypress tree...it's really bad when you have planted trees next to a water source and the water source is drying up.

Youare · Aug 11, 2006

Some times a man's got to do what a man's got to do.

I've done some things like what you did with the Jeep and it worked but would not want anyone else to try the same thing. I was cutting a tree down for a friend it was next to the main road and wires. His property sloped away from the road so I tied a heavy rope 2/3 of the way up the tree and tied the other end to the rear of my 3/4 Jeep pickup. I couldn't run the chain saw and drive the truck at the same time so I put the truck in netural and let the trucks weight pull on the tree, I did place a log 10 feet in front of the truck to catch it once it pulled the tree over. The plan worked without a hitch.

The conditions were just right for that operation, was it safe, at the time I thought so. It worked just like your plan worked, it must be the Jeep.

I hope I never get that stuck. That mud looks like it goes pretty deep. Nice pictures of the whole adventure.

Randy

bx23barry · Aug 11, 2006

When I was a kid I did alot of irrigating with sprinkler pipe. We would put a jeep in low with a tire in the row and let it go as we loaded/unloaded pipe on/off the trailer. Made a three man operation a two man one. Ahhhh to be young and foolish again. Anyway you got it out. Just wondering if tried using the bucket to lift the front and push back before all the chain and towing? Looks to me like it should have worked but photos never show everything.

herringchoker · Aug 11, 2006

Many years ago my late father showed me a trick to get a tractor unstuck that I have only used twice (once was when he showed me) and it worked both times. We made one of the rear wheels into a winch by passing a chain through the vent hole and hooking it back on itself so that it would wind around the wheel as it turned. The other end of the chain was hooked to an immovable object that was lined up with the wheel. In one case it was a sturdy fence post, in the other a 1956 Chevrolet sedan with brakes applied. Then I backed the tractor up the chain while braking the other rear wheel to keep it from spinning. (No diff lock on that old Massey-Harris). Luckily I have become a bit wiser (or more timid) in my old age and have been able to avoid these situations. Of course, 4 wheel drive, differential lock, and FEL sure don't hurt.

ovrszd · Aug 12, 2006

I've lost track of how many pickup loads of small bales of hay I've fed to cattle with me in the back and no one driving the stick shift pickup!!! I love ingenuity stories!!!

Egon · Aug 12, 2006

Chances are if several longer sturdy pieces of wood were placed under the loader bucket it would have had enough support to push out the tractor.

I've been in the same situation but just raised the bucket, shut off the tractor, placed it in neutral and just pulled it out with my truck. Off course much smaller tractor and larger truck.

Horses were nice for unloading hay.

wushaw · Aug 12, 2006

BX23barry,
I have used the FEL to get unstuck before but the mud was to deep and mushy in this situation for the FEL to be usefull.

ovrszd,
These type of uses are where a standard shift tranny shine over an auto.

Egon,
I think the tractor actually weighs more than the jeep. I didn't even consider wood for the FEL, this was the first thing that popped into my head...I think the heat and one too many beers may have kept me from having any other rational ideas

I have used the jeep to unstick other folks...some bigger..some smaller but never my own stuff.

TexasSD · Aug 12, 2006

Glad you were able to get it out! Those pics give me some bad deja vu. 3 weeks ago I buried front and back axles on the beach of Lake Weatherford while trying to help my father in law get a stump out.

Tried putting boards under the tires and FEL with no luck. Went and got my jeep - again no luck. Went and got the F-250 and no luck. Finally got my wife in the F-250 and me on the tractor and got it out.

After that 2500# tractor sank, I just knew that 4 ton truck was going to sink as well! Luckily had 40 foot of chains to keep it out of the muck.

I have to admit, my mother in law told me not to do it. I hate it when she's right!