Tree Wrap of Doom

woodlandfarms · Sep 2, 2015

I know it has been a while since I have posted one of my screwups, truth is I haven't been home since March. Long time no seat time... Well, This was a bit of a brain twister... It doesn't show because I am on a slope, but somehow I managed to get the tree in between the RFOPS and the engine tub. No way to get out but chainsaw, Gave the RFOPS a bit of a tweek as well. Not sure how I did it, but it involved the slope, and an old log hidden in the grass. Slid just perfect.

Miss me much?

MossRoad · Sep 2, 2015

Awww that looks like a crummy old cherry tree anyway... good riddance! :laughing:

I suppose I should ask if you tried full left turn and drive around to the downside of the tree, then crab down the hill. But with those chains and duals, you probably don't do much crabbing anyway, do you?

woodlandfarms · Sep 3, 2015

Those duals turn an easy walkout into a nightmare. Once you wrap it is real hard to unwrap. But getting the canopy jammed up was a trick I never saw coming. I have wrapped tons of times but this one got me completel stopped. Couldn't inch forward or backward.

boggen · Sep 3, 2015

can't say i have topped that. and not sure i want to top that.... due to most likely it would mean rolling the machine over into a tree and not just sliding it.

johara1 · Sep 3, 2015

Why can't you use the articulation to move you away from the tree side ways? Pick up the front by pushing down on the arms and walk it away, did this many times. jim

MossRoad · Sep 3, 2015

I still say that cherry tree was asking for it....

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Ed of all trades · Sep 4, 2015

Did that with a log skidder once. Bigger tree and just as stuck. Ed

CobyRupert · Sep 4, 2015

Did something not quite similar with a Steiner dually articulating mower and a sloped lawn along a condo. Could not get that thing away from the condo. Had to take off the front mower. Yours is worse.

ponytug · Sep 4, 2015

Carl, You do have the most impressive gotchas. Where's the film crew when you need them?
Thanks for sharing the photos.
Any chance of using a come along and skidding the machine sideways? How about your neighbor with the D8?
At any rate, good luck in getting it out.
All the best,
Peter

tractchores · Sep 4, 2015

Not fun. I've done similar sliding into a tree, it takes a lot of yanking sideways or some fancy driving to get out. Cutting the tree is sometimes an option, but you don't want to make a bad problem worse and have it fall on the tractor!