What do you call getting unstuck using the FEL?
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Industrial Toys
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I have a really deep custom built skid steer bucket on my R510 wheel loader. I designed it so I could see the bucket edge. As such I would have figured with that length, that I could get myself unstuck. It has never worked for me and I tried it this last weekend and it didn't work again. Maybe the weight distribution is all different for me. I used the backhoe, but this is potentially very stressfull on the machine (of this type). You need enough downwad pressure to get a hold, but not too much to stress the frame.
k0ua
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You did not have to do the "walk of shame" so you were not REALLY stuck:laughing:
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I didn't read the whole thing.. but the only thing I heard it called was crawfishing.. guess because a crawfish uses it tail to pull and push himself forward or backward.. Lou
dave1949
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I have NO idea what I just read...
My plan is working but I have a ways to go yet. I figure if nobody really knows for sure what the heck I'm talking about, I'll get fewer arguments.
"Stuck" is the opposite of doing useful work. If you aren't doing useful work when that was your intention, you are stuck.
Forget about wheels turning, moving/not moving. :laughing:
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I agree. Any time the machine is turning tires and can't move. Not all machines have their own Fel. I have operated wreckers and logging equipment with powerful winches, and you can also winch your self out pretty easy. If your driving somewhere with your tractor and get to where your spinning tires and can't move eventually you may be able to get your self out. Well weather you can call it STUCK or NOT STUCK doesn't matter because you have to still explain to anyone waiting on you. I PREFER to say I got stuck due to the fact that I took longer to get from point A to point B. Not all tractors have Fel or 4wd to get themselves out and not all trucks have a winch to pull themselves out. Call not being able to move what you want
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If you got out using the FEL bucket, then you were momentarily detained. Stuck is when you gotta get off yer butt and get something to get you out.:laughing:
chim
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Common sense? I had a B7500 to trailer a few years ago and no ramps were available. Pickup and dropoff places both had banks the trailer could be backed up to. There was still too much of a "step" for the smaller front tires to roll up, so with the bucket flat on the trailer and the front wheels off the ground I drove forward enough to get the fronts on the trailer and set them down. In 4WD the rears rolled up onto the trailer. Figured it was the way everyone would handle it.
PILOON
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Hydro crew were replacing a damaged pole that was a fair distance into to forest back from road.
Top soil cover was shallow, wet and clay filled and barely covered the solid bedrock underneath.
To make things worst he needed to limb uphill to the location.
After skidding, sliding he had no choice but resort to drilling and inserting steel anchors to which he attached a chain and pulled himself with the hoe.
He used a portable gas powered rock drill to make that 'pin' hole.
The hydro line had been installed before the road was laid out and is a constant source of power failures due to winds and ice storms.
Line was installed years back under a gov't rural electrification program and mostly done using muskeg crawlers and boats.
Power failures are so common that 9/10 folks have back up gen sets.
To add to the equation we are a mountain top lake with the highest elevation for miles around.
However the setting is an absolute paradise and none of us would change it for bucket loads of cash.
Top soil cover was shallow, wet and clay filled and barely covered the solid bedrock underneath.
To make things worst he needed to limb uphill to the location.
After skidding, sliding he had no choice but resort to drilling and inserting steel anchors to which he attached a chain and pulled himself with the hoe.
He used a portable gas powered rock drill to make that 'pin' hole.
The hydro line had been installed before the road was laid out and is a constant source of power failures due to winds and ice storms.
Line was installed years back under a gov't rural electrification program and mostly done using muskeg crawlers and boats.
Power failures are so common that 9/10 folks have back up gen sets.
To add to the equation we are a mountain top lake with the highest elevation for miles around.
However the setting is an absolute paradise and none of us would change it for bucket loads of cash.
Paul Thornton
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I've always referred to it as "crabbing" as someone else suggested.
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