Pictures of freeing stuck equipment with your tractor

[kozal01]

Nothing major but I was thankful for my tractor this spring when I got my ZTR stuck

 

[JCoastie]

Branch stuck underneath

 

[Eagle1]

Branch stuck underneath
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That is how I changes blades.....
Just had a flat on the BX and used the LS to pick up and hold the BX while fixed the rear wheel.
Today I chained an ATV into bucket to work on it. Nice when you can work at eye level.

 

[LHF2019]

From a long time ago

 

[EddieWalker]

I was cleaning up the shoreline of my pond and the water was running out of the dump bed. After a few trips back and forth with the dump truck, the water became too much, and instead of driving away with a load of mud, I slid back into the pond with it.

I was at a bad angle and couldn't dump the load. I tried pulling it out with my backhoe, but it was too heavy. My neighbor also has a backhoe, so parked it beside mine, and we where both able to pull it out.

Best thing for me was that I never even asked him for help. He saw what had happened and just showed up!!!!







Getting the mower too close to the pond is pretty common for me. I'm not actually trying to mow next to the water, I just hit a spot that is wet, or loose, or too steep, and I slide into the water. The walk back to the house to get the backhoe is what I hate the most. It's easy to pull it out, it's horrible to make that walk.



This was my worse stuck with the dozer. I was smoothing things out and it was getting late out. I couldn't see very well and knew there was a spot that I needed to avoid, but then drove right over it and buried the track. This is what it looked like the next morning. I used the backhoe to dig out all around it, but it wouldn't move. The tracks would just spin. I had to crawl under it with a small shovel and get all the mud out from under the belly pans so the tracks would settle down onto solid dirt. This was an all day project of pain and misery!!!



Not so really stuck, but I wasn't going anywhere until I go it fixed. This was another day of pain and misery.



This one scared me pretty good. I was mowing too close to the culvert that goes into the pond. From the culvert to the pond, it's a steep ditch for the water to flow through. For some reason, I wanted to get as close as I could to that ditch and have the batwing go over it. Really dumb idea!!!! My rear tires dropped into the ditch and the tires on the high side came off the ground. I don't know how close I came to rolling it, but it felt like it was going to happen. Fortunately, it only bounced, rocked a couple of times and then settled down into this position with just the front tire off of the ground.

I hooked up the chain to the axle, as low as I could get it, and then I pulled it out VERY SLOWLY, and I kept the bucket as low to the ground as I could. The tractor was just one year old when this happened, and all I could think of was having to make payments on it after I destroyed it.

 

[rockinbbar]

Been stuck a time or two.

Last time I stuck my PS120. Luckily, there was someone there where I was stuck, and he gave me a ride to get my PS75 and a few lengths of chain.

I didn't just give it hell and bury it to the hilt, and there was enough ground that was just solid enough to let the 75 do it's thing to get it's big brother out to solid ground.

I'm sure I'll get stuck again, but I really hate that...

 

[jaybo77862]

I'm glad there's no pictures of some of my adventures.

 

[smiley]

I had an Allis Chalmers HD 8 traxcavator with smooth street pads, a great machine. I was cutting into a hillside, leveling a good sized parking area. Coming down the slope in a rear corner it started getting mushy. It turned out to be a spring in the corner and I was making a finishing pass and the rear end just sunk in about 3 ft. The front was on stabil ground but with no cleats the tracks just spun. I had some old wood guard posts close by so raised the front with the loader and threw them under the tracks but just spun myself
deeper. Realizing it was useless so called my buddy to bring over his John Deere A. We hooked up and he just spun ruts in the ground. Pondering what else we could do,
I thought maybe I could raise the bucket way up in the air put a chain on a tooth on the bucket and have him pull while I tried to crawl out. It worked like a charm. With the bucket up, it acted like a lever and rocked me forward and with the ties under the tracks, crawled right up out no problem.

 

[Gord Baker]

Friend of mine got stuck on Sunday. He was pulling up close to a steep bank and slid down the embankment into a soft spot.
I went over to his place after church and got him out.

Here’s the situation when I arrived in my Challenger MT535B. My friend is going down to his Ford compact tractor with a backhoe. I already have the chain on the subframe.

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Slowly pulling him up the bank.

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Smiles came back as the Challenger easily pulled the little Ford up onto the grass.


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We talked a bit afterwards. He wanted to pay me $100 bucks and as I usually do, refused to take any money.
What are friends for?

Lets get a thread going with your stories & pictures of helping a friend. Happens to all of us!

Good Recovery. Lessons learned.

 

[mulitweed]

neighbor buried a versatile one time , i could reach the radiator cap standing on the ground , a few broken cables two 4wds a trackhoe got it out

 

[LD48750]

Lesson learned a long time ago.....

 

[Williy]

SOME IDIOTS ARE WORK

willy

 

[Seabeckredneck]

While helping my girlfriend clear her property of many trees, this particular alder was causing me a lot of grief. I dug all around the base, exposing the root ball and then try to push it over... (don't get ahead of me now). Well, this stubborn tree just did not want to go over. It was a muddy mess

. I turned the tractor around and put the FEL up high for leverage and still the dang tree stood proud. So a good friend who was there helping, put his winch cable up high and helped by pulling down as I was pushing with the JD, again with the FEL up high. Well, as the tree finally started going over, the root ball grabbed my FEL and started pulling me with it!!! HOLY SMOKES! I thought I was going to be killed until it settled into the hole with the FEL over the top of the root ball. Since I couldn't raise the FEL any higher and it was hooked on the root ball, it took my F350 in 4 low and a small excavator to pull me out.

 

[RjCorazza]

While helping my girlfriend clear her property of many trees...

That would be a hard one to anticipate!

 

[jon2564]

I was crossing a creek and she suddenly sunk-in good. A friend with a big jeep, winch and snatch-block pulled me out.

 

[Aquabird]

Not a huge job but occasionally get the Zero stuck. Fortunately have other “toys” to pull things out.

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Been there and done that twice. Had to pull my Bad Boy diesel zt out.

 

[rockinbbar]

While helping my girlfriend clear her property of many trees, this particular alder was causing me a lot of grief. I dug all around the base, exposing the root ball and then try to push it over... (don't get ahead of me now). Well, this stubborn tree just did not want to go over. It was a muddy messView attachment 874813View attachment 874814. I turned the tractor around and put the FEL up high for leverage and still the dang tree stood proud. So a good friend who was there helping, put his winch cable up high and helped by pulling down as I was pushing with the JD, again with the FEL up high. Well, as the tree finally started going over, the root ball grabbed my FEL and started pulling me with it!!! HOLY SMOKES! I thought I was going to be killed until it settled into the hole with the FEL over the top of the root ball. Since I couldn't raise the FEL any higher and it was hooked on the root ball, it took my F350 in 4 low and a small excavator to pull me out.

I did a similar operation with my big skid steer...

I had a big oak that needed pushing over so I could move it away from a fenceline. I had the loader up high, and pushed and it started giving ground. I kept the momentum going until the tree fell, but that big root ball was right at the front of the cab, and when it raised up, it took my expensive demolition door off and up with it!

Took me a day's work of bending that door frame so it would fit again. The polycarbonate door was a thick one, and survived, but now has some spiderweb small cracks looking through the bottom.

Lesson learned.

 

[Frxdy]

I have to say, I've never been stuck to the point where I could not use the bucket on my FEL to lever myself out. The 'trick' if you will to getting stuck and unstuck is to not keep digging for China and use some common sense.... and if it looks wet and or muddy, avoid it until it dries up.

I once left a backhoe out in the back field for 2 months waiting until it dried up. Luckily I don't need it too often! I've told my wife "You can't get a backhoe stuck, but you do make a choice of how much of a mess to leave behind".

 

[rockinbbar]

I once left a backhoe out in the back field for 2 months waiting until it dried up. Luckily I don't need it too often! I've told my wife "You can't get a backhoe stuck, but you do make a choice of how much of a mess to leave behind".

Had to do the same thing with my 15' batwing cutter.

It sunk one fall when I was bush hogging, and I had to unhook from it and leave it. It's a wonder I didn't stick the tractor too.
That cutter weighs 5000 pounds, and it was on bottom. went back several times to get it out, but it stayed over 4 months before it dried out enough to pull it free.

I was VERY lucky it was my last job of fall, and didn't need it in the off season... Otherwise it would have been an expensive recovery operation.

 

[Al Kramer]

Not a huge job but occasionally get the Zero stuck. Fortunately have other “toys” to pull things out.

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Just curious, but what were you mowing? Those yellow blooms look awesome.