What do you do when you get.....BOGGED????

[Maine_Polack]

I've used a come-a-long, when the distance to be pulled is relatively short.

 

[johan3400]

Stay friends with your neighbors. Getting stuck happens to most of us at some time and the only choice many times is help to pull you out. Spinning the tires has usually only put me deeper in and harder to pull out. Smile, offer your neighbor a cold drink and laugh at the predicament. Some time it may be your turn to pull your neighbor out.

 

[jwstewar]

First thing that I usually do is try to pull my self out w/ the FEL (I'm usually already in 4wd and have the diff locked because I'm usually hoggin' a pretty rough/wet creek/ditch bank). Usually one of 2 things happens with the FEL, it just scrapes atop the ground with out actually biting anything (no toothbar - yet /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif) or it scrapes enough dirt/mud back under the tractor to bury me more. When neither of those work, I make the long walk to the house to get my wife, and usually w/o me saying anything she says "How bad? Which side of the ditch?" When then go grab the truck and a chain. She drives the truck and I drive the tractor. Sometimes it is a ago, sometimes the truck just starts bouncing up and down spinning all 4 of its tires. (Ain't if funny how a 1700lb can stop a 5000lb truck cold?). When the truck failed to budge it, the wife backs the truck up, I unhook the chain. I get back in the truck and drive to my neighbors and ask if he can come help me for a few minutes. He then fires up his 36HP Long and comes to my rescue. Though it is a reciprocal trade, my little NH has pulled is Long out a time or two as well. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Though I keep telling him, I have an advantage, I have a neighbor with a bigger tractor than mine. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif