Tractor Stuck

[dillo99]

Catvet,

We have all been there...I have been there more times than I care to remember and every time I say "why did I drive in here". I have used planks, pulled with my back hoe, pushed with my fel, etc. etc. It sure gets ugly quick. Last Spring I was in pretty bad and everything I did just made more and more soup out of the mud. I literally had to drag the tractor out inch by inch with the backhoe - what a mess. I also have a habit of getting to the wrong side of the mud hole (like you did ) and then cutting new trails just to find a fresh path out of the woods. What fun! I'm quite sure I'll do it again.

Mike /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Boomerang1]

This is stuck!

 

[Boomerang1]

This is really stuck!

 

[michiglenn]

This was stuck yesterday where I am going to have a pond. It took a BIG wrecker to help him out... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[michiglenn]

another shot...

 

[N80]

Wow!

I almost got stuck in a Lull type offroad fork lift. The axles will turn independantly but it wasn't working until I remembered that they could also be turned in the same direction. In other words, both front and rear tires pointing left in parallel. When I did that it climbed out of the hole sideways like a crab. I was quite proud.

I also remember years ago seeing THREE of the biggest bulldozers I've ever seen stuck in a muddy logging deck in the black mud of Charleston, SC. Two of them were buried up to the cage. They stayed stuck for 2 or three months until the mud dried out and they dug them out!

 

[MikeIA]

One of our employees didn't understand that an "all-terrain" forklift really doesn't mean all terrain, and tried driving a big Selleck through standing water. Of course he made it over half way. Luckily, we had a big Lull on site with outriggers, and we were able to push him the rest of the way by reaching out and then extending the mast.

 

[dooleysm]

Our pond diggers had a D7 stuck in the remnants of our original pond. Unfortunately, I wasn't around to see them get it out, but I know they use a BIG trackhoe.

 

[N80]

This is what I got stuck in. Wish I'd taken a picture. I was so glad I didn't have to call someone to get me out that I didn't even bother with a pciture:

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[andrewj]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Than I'd get a tow strap and start pulling with every vehicle I had. If one wont do it, get a second. I've heard of people using four vehicles chained in a line to get enough traction to get the stuck one out.
Good Luck,
Eddie

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not to correct eddie or anything, but i'd advise using one chain per tow vehicle. one chain tied to two or more vehicles in series is a great way to break the chain connecting a stuck tractor and more vehicles than it was designed to connect to. A broken chan can and will kill you if it hits you.

Let me also say a stuck tractor has caused many injuries in other ways. please be careful. someone suggested chaining a board to your tire - please do not follow that advice. so dangerous. Also ignore any advice to place a chain around the drive wheel and use it as a winch.

if you still want to do these things, make sure your widow knows how to sell tractors/machinery to make ends meet.

ain't you got any friends with tractors that can pull you out?