How to get out of mud

[LouNY]

I have found that the absolutely best way to escape being stuck in the mud is to not put the tractor there in the first place. If you walk over your field and your feet get stuck, there is absolutely no reason to bring your tractor out there. Keep it in the barn where it belongs. A prime example would be the first video. Just what in the wide world of sports did he thing he was going to do with a tractor out there?

When you have work that has to be done the tractor goes.
Doesn't matter if it's raining or snowing some things have to be done.

 

[oosik]

I've been stuck a few times. NEVER to the extent as demonstrated in the attached videos. Squeeze & pull with the bucket has always got me out. I learned from this experience. Check the area first before leaping in.......

EXACTLY - what in the H*LL was he expecting to accomplish out in that field.

Just because the work has to be done doesn't mean you will get it done with the tractor. That first video is a prime example of this........

 

[Jstpssng]

I've been stuck a few times. NEVER to the extent as demonstrated in the attached videos. Squeeze & pull with the bucket has always got me out. I learned from this experience. Check the area first before leaping in.......

EXACTLY - what in the H*LL was he expecting to accomplish out in that field.

Just because the work has to be done doesn't mean you will get it done with the tractor. That first video is a prime example of this........

You don't know what it looked like or how he got to where he was. In the second video he stated that it rained during the night after he got the tractor stuck. I got into a similar mess years ago with a pickup... a coworker drove farther than he should have, then I finished the job... popping a tire while going through a mudhole. That's when we discovered that the truck had no jack...
By day's end I had the tire changed and the truck was high and dry on the far side of the mudhole. Then my boss showed up all POed and told us to leave it there for the weekend. We got 2 1/2 inches of rain...
It turned into a fiasco getting it out.

 

[k0ua]

I remember as a young lad (age 21) of driving my 71 LTD Ford off the dirt road to park at a shooting range. This was in February, which was the start of the thaw in these parts where the frozen ground turns to slush. I felt the front wheels start to sink, but I wanted off of the road so continued. The heavy land barge sunk to the frame. As I turned the front wheels side to side and attempted to back out the craters I created with the front wheels filled with water. I opened the drivers door (having to push some mud with it) I sank to my ankles. Some Soldiers and their girlfriends came by and offered to help, and we tried putting wooden boards under the cars bumper jack to raise the vehicle from the clutches of mud, but no amount of pushing or jacking accomplished anything. In fact the board just disappeared into the soup and the car did not raise even an inch. Finally an old farmer with a Ford F250 4WD came by and stopped. He looked the situation over, and said "son just where in (heck) did you think you were going?".. I mumbled something about getting off the road. He then said, well here is a chain, you hook up your end where ever you want it, and I will pull from my end, and I am not responsible if something comes off of the car. I crawled down into the mud and found an actual slot in the frame. (cars had frames in those days) and hooked up the chain. He put the truck up on the high dry road in 4 wheel low and out the old LTD came. I don't think he even spun a tire. But that question of "son just where in (heck) did you think you were going?" has stuck with me thru the years. Just where did I think I was going? It was a stupid thing to do to go off of the road in such conditions. Just like it is stupid to pull your disk out into the pig wallow. What purpose will it serve? All I am saying is think before you act. Yes, I know sometimes these sink holes are hidden and you may have 90 percent solid dry ground, and just a small patch of wet slop, but an awful lot of these unstuck videos look to me like just total disregard or lack of reading conditions. "it has been raining for two weeks ma, I think I will go disk the field". Yeah.

 

[Jstpssng]

I remember as a young lad (age 21) of driving my 71 LTD Ford off the dirt road to park at a shooting range. This was in February, which was the start of the thaw in these parts where the frozen ground turns to slush. I felt the front wheels start to sink, but I wanted off of the road so continued. The heavy land barge sunk to the frame. As I turned the front wheels side to side and attempted to back out the craters I created with the front wheels filled with water. I opened the drivers door (having to push some mud with it) I sank to my ankles. Some Soldiers and their girlfriends came by and offered to help, and we tried putting wooden boards under the cars bumper jack to raise the vehicle from the clutches of mud, but no amount of pushing or jacking accomplished anything. In fact the board just disappeared into the soup and the car did not raise even an inch. Finally an old farmer with a Ford F250 4WD came by and stopped. He looked the situation over, and said "son just where in (heck) did you think you were going?".. I mumbled something about getting off the road. He then said, well here is a chain, you hook up your end where ever you want it, and I will pull from my end, and I am not responsible if something comes off of the car. I crawled down into the mud and found an actual slot in the frame. (cars had frames in those days) and hooked up the chain. He put the truck up on the high dry road in 4 wheel low and out the old LTD came. I don't think he even spun a tire. But that question of "son just where in (heck) did you think you were going?" has stuck with me thru the years. Just where did I think I was going? It was a stupid thing to do to go off of the road in such conditions. Just like it is stupid to pull your disk out into the pig wallow. What purpose will it serve? All I am saying is think before you act. Yes, I know sometimes these sink holes are hidden and you may have 90 percent solid dry ground, and just a small patch of wet slop, but an awful lot of these unstuck videos look to me like just total disregard or lack of reading conditions. "it has been raining for two weeks ma, I think I will go disk the field". Yeah.

As I've pointed out before, it might not have been like that when he went there. Something about rain changes things, and we don't know how much they got. Looking at the parts of the field where he had harrowed, I suspect that it was a rather heavy downpour.

 

[Industrial Toys]

James. Reminds of one year at Dayton. Torrential rains washed down the payment through peoples electronic treasures. And the grass parking was a mess.

 

[orezok]

I had a friend who was a construction engineer in Viet Nam. Every once in a while a tank would get stuck in mud that formed a vacuum with the flat bottoms. If the tank recovery vehicles could not pull them out the engineers moved in. They took a chunk of C4 and pushed it under the tank. Had the driver rev it up and then set it off. The C4 would pop the tank up and break the mud suction allowing them to drive out. Dont try this with your tractor. :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

"When in doubt, C4"

 

[Industrial Toys]

Stories like that almost make it sound like it was a fun place to be.

 

[Oldpath05]

So what would you be doing with a disk out there in the mudhole?

Off hand I'd say I was out there making a video on how to get a tractor unstuck and the disc was just a photo prop, another reason might be my atv and Jeep is broke down and needed some mud time............