Stuck tractor - ways to lift?

[foggy1111]

You can use a load binder or come-along, all you are doing is creating a point of attachment, you can also just run the chain through your wheel if it has a slot.

OK....this helps a little. I can see getting a 4 foot pull or so with this way :thumbsup:.... enough to get you outta a hole most times......unless you could get the chain to stay on the tread (not my kinda luck :laughing.

After getting stuck in a low spot last year, I bought a Masdam Super HD Come-Along. (I think it lifts 3 tons ?) Hopefully now I could attach to a tree base and pull myself out.

The come-along works pretty good.....as I have not been stuck since. (must be the insurance effect.)

 

[MNBobcat]

Better get that huge hole filled in and levelled off before it fills with water or you will have a bigger mess especially if it is in the middle of a grass airstrip.

I'm going to use the skidsteer and dump some buckets of sand into the hole.

 

[TripleR]

OK....this helps a little. I can see getting a 4 foot pull or so with this way :thumbsup:.... enough to get you outta a hole most times......unless you could get the chain to stay on the tread (not my kinda luck :laughing.

After getting stuck in a low spot last year, I bought a Masdam Super HD Come-Along. (I think it lifts 3 tons ?) Hopefully now I could attach to a tree base and pull myself out.

The come-along works pretty good.....as I have not been stuck since. (must be the insurance effect.)

My father in law was stuck in one of our ponds not very far from solid ground, so it did not take a long ways to hit solid ground. It could have gone much further as the chains were set up by a farmer friend who used this method and they had rounded up plenty of chain and some heavy trucks as solid but moveable anchor points to line the chains up perfectly so they would wrap around the circumference of the tire.

My father in law loved to mow more than anyone I know and also like to try to increase the size of his ponds or build dams etc, so my sons and I got quite a bit of practice extricating stuck tractors. The last time I remember getting him out, my neighbor hooked two tractors in line from different angles and combinations until we had to give up and my neighbor who farms our land went to get one of his Case articulated tractors from a farm some distance away.

The CX 80 is not a small tractor, but when Vincent hooked up to it with that big Case, it popped out of that mud like a cork.:laughing:

 

[deereman75]

I remember we got a small-ish forklift (still weighed more then most compact tractors) stuck in the mud, and we just picked it up and moved it out with a giant forklift.

 

[mdelmarcelle]

OK....this helps a little. I can see getting a 4 foot pull or so with this way :thumbsup:.... enough to get you outta a hole most times......unless you could get the chain to stay on the tread (not my kinda luck :laughing.

After getting stuck in a low spot last year, I bought a Masdam Super HD Come-Along. (I think it lifts 3 tons ?) Hopefully now I could attach to a tree base and pull myself out.

The come-along works pretty good.....as I have not been stuck since. (must be the insurance effect.)

I've tried the come along approach once with an old Massey Harris 50 stuck up to its belly in mud. I bought one that supposedly could lift 6 or 8000lbs. Admittedly, it wasn't all that expensive, I think it was around $50. I found that a stuck tractor requires a lot of force to get it unstuck. The come along didn't do much at all. The cable got so tight I was afraid it was going to snap, which would have been very dangerous considering you're standing right over the thing to crank on it. And when it was able to make the tractor move, it would only move an inch at a time at most and it would move so slowly that the tractor would just stay bottomed out in the mud. I eventually got the tractor out, but it took a long time. Nothin worse than getting your tractor stuck.

 

[AGGIE00]

I found a 6 ton chain hoist and a tree worked well for my 2640. Had to bring in a deere 700 dozer to get the backhoe out.

 

[mred]

Try this next time: I have never had a case where a pulley and wire rope didnt do the trick. This is also a lot cleaner than methods involving wrapping a chain around or chaining a log to a wheel. or putting planks under the wheels. Hook one end of the wire rope to a tree or fixed object, run it back to a pulley attached to the stuck tractor with a stout chain, then back to your tow vehicle which is now able to exert double the normal pull force enabling a light machine to dislodge a heavier one or one that is really hung up like yours. To pay for that, your tow vehicle moves twice as far as the stuck one. If you do it right, the cable dont even need to get muddy. just remember to use your heaviest chain between the pulley and the stuck vehicle as that leg sees double the load that is on the wire rope.

Help me out here if I am wrong but I think you need an additional pully to increase the force applied to the tractor. In the description above I don't see it.
Maybe this will help with the understanding
HowStuffWorks "How a Block and Tackle Works"

 

[Little_Grizzly]

Just wondering...does this whole story come under the "owning" or "operating" heading? :laughing:

 

[bcp]

A pulley attached to a movable object (stuck tractor) decreases the pull required to move the object according to the number of lines running to the movable object.

Disregarding friction:

One moving pulley/two lines= 1/2 effort

One moving pulley/three lines=1/3 effort

etc.



Bruce

 

[bcp]

Just wondering...does this whole story come under the "owning" or "operating" heading? :laughing:

A stuck tractor is not "operating" so it must be "owning."

Bruce