To all of those who have been stuck... How did

[woodlandfarms]

How did you get yourself out? I have been following the stupid things we have done posts, Eddie buried that cat to the hood.. I am very interested in how you got a 4K to 20K lb machine unstuck... Post pictures if you got them.

This is my fear / problem on my property. I will become stuck, seems inevitable with the amount of water / clay / debris we have to deal with.

Carl

 

[hz293]

Hi Carl,
Glad to see you got a tractor. The way I get out is to not get in a place to get stuck in the first place. If I see an area that is questionable to me, I get off the tractor and walk it. If it still looks questionable, I wait for another day when it doesn't look like I'll get stuck, thereby saving me grief, extra work. and not having my neighbors laugh at me. Of course after they got through laughing they'd try to help me out. I may be wrong but I'll bet that 90% of the people that get stuck know beforehand that it's going to happen. Now if you like to take risks, go for it especially if you have a neighbor with a dozer and a lot of chain.

Harris

 

[N80]

I've been bogged down many times but always managed to work my way out. I'm a bit cavalier about it but I have a B-I-L down the road with an assortment of big tractors and trucks with winches.

My biggest concern is actually sand. I get sand out of the creek bed to patch my sorry roads (can't afford gravel right now). I've almost been stuck in the sand once and it is amazing how fast you sink down. Much worse than the mud and clay we have on the higher ground. I can get my B-I-L to pull me out but on the chance the water was rising it could get hairy. So I don't go in the creek bed any time the creek could be coming up.

 

[srjones]

I was doing some pretty scary stuff in with a Kubota B21 TLB and I got stuck beyond the point that FWD and the diff lock with do any good. So, to get unstuck and (out of the ditch), I put the FEL down and lived the front wheels up out the mud. Then, I turned around and used the backhoe to first use outriggers lift the back wheels up and then used the hoe to lift the back wheels even higher. Then, I raised the outriggers and used the hoe to rotate the tractor left to right. I repeated that process until I was on 'firmer' ground to get back enough traction to get out.

I've used the FEL on other tractors and a Bobcat Skidsteer to raise the front wheels enough to put things underneath (wood/shingle/rocks)

I'm a big fan of not getting stuck in the first place, and the best thing that I've learned is to not over power things to the point where your wheels are spinning, since it doesn't do much good and will most likely just dig in. Also, if I'm not sure if I'm gonna get stuck, I'll take an "uphill approach" in that I've got gravity on my side if I need to back out. But then again, I've only ever got stuck in flat boggy areas.

As a last resort, I've got a BIL and FIL down the road...

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Well, you take the tractor apart into pieces small enough to carry by hand to hard ground, then you wash each part and put it back together. If you're feeling energetic and the tractor is old, you can paint the parts before reassembly.

Remember though, if you decide to reassemble it indoors, to measure the exits to make sure you can get it back out when you're done. House doors are usually only 36", so if your reassembling your D9 in the kitchen, you may be in for a surprise.

Cliff

 

[Defective]

I reassembled one of my 8Ns in my family room one winter.

Didn't have any trouble at all come spring. Used the FEL to widen the door. Then SWMBO was real pleased with the fancy french doors I installed for her.

 

[EddieWalker]

I get stuck all the time to one degree or another. I don't know how you guys avoid it, but I'm not that smart. The other day I was moving dirt with my dump truck and while backing up to where I'm dumping the dirt, my right, rear tires sunk the the axle. I'd dumped about 7 loads before that one, but must have missed that spot every time.

I tried to dum the load, but when the bed went up, the tailgait wouldn't open because of the dirt piles alread there.

My solution was to get the backhoe and force the dirt out. It took awhile and was a real pain to get into the right position, but it worked. Once the dirt was out, I just pushed on the back of the frame with the bucket and the truck popped out of the hole.

In that picture of my dozer, I had to dig all the mud out from around the dozer, but that still wouldn't get me free. The bottom plates were suctioned onto the mud and holding it solid. I had to tunnel underneath all the way from the rear to the blade in front before I broke free. It was an all day, ten hour job to get it unstuck.

One time while mowing an new area, my rear tires droped into a hole with my mower holding me up. The tires were spinning because they were floating free. I raised the mower to get more traction, but it was too late. I was stuck.

I'd been mowing that area for a few hours and thought it was pretty solid, but when I brought the backhoe out to pull my little tractor out, it got stuck too. 14,000 pounds was allot more than my 4,000 Century CUT. I tried to pull myself out with the hoe, but it just pulled up mud. I couldn't get ahold of anything solid and now that one was stuck too.

My last option was the dozer. I drove it close enough to give the hoe bucket something to grab and was able to move a few feet. Then I backed up the dozer a few feet and got back on the backhoe to do it again. I did this until I got back to solid ground.

I got the Century CUT out with some chains and pulling with the dozer.

Most of my stucks are from areas I'm working dirt. New soil takes allog time to compact enough to shed rain water and not absorb it. Usually at least one good soaking from a rain and then driving over it as soon as it's solid. If this happens, it will become very, very solid. Until this happens, new dirt is cabable of swalowing just about anything.

Eddie

 

[bx23barry]

I'm pretty good at getting stuck too. The worst was a very scary rainy vietnam nite spent trying to get all our twenty D7s unstuck at one time to make it back to base camp. Lots of dozer work, winch cable dragging, and just plan dragging going on in the jungle that nite. I don't worry much of getting unstuck in friendly country after that one.

 

[Thomas]

Come along that's able to pull twice the weight of your tractor...extra chains or long heavy duty cable,than slowly pull it out works pretty good.

 

[Soundguy]

I've been stuck once... after that I got rid of my 4wd tractor and traded it for a 2wd.. never been stuck since. ( 4wd gave me that sense that it was harder to get stuck... wrong!!! )

In my case, I was on a NH 1920, I ran out across a dry lake bed.. sank to the chassie in about oh.. 1.28 seconds.

Had to walk over to a friends house, grab some shovels and a snatch strap, and the ramps from my trailer, and some boards.

We dug out the fronts and rears and shoved wood and ramps under them.. truck was parke dup on good ground and used almost the whole 20' of snatch strap just to get it hooked to the tailwheel on the mower.

Engage tractor in 4wd, diffy lock and reverse, and have truck pull... walke don the ramps, then fell off back int he mud. Had to dig out and repeat.. then finally got on some more solid ground... Took 4 hours... ruined my day...

I've never been stuck in the 2wd i traded for..

Soundguy

How did you get yourself out? I have been following the stupid things we have done posts, Eddie buried that cat to the hood.. I am very interested in how you got a 4K to 20K lb machine unstuck... Post pictures if you got them.

This is my fear / problem on my property. I will become stuck, seems inevitable with the amount of water / clay / debris we have to deal with.

Carl