Just a funny pic...First time getting her stuck

[Redbug]

On Memorial Day, I was working on building up a road bed and adding a crown, but got too close to the mucky edge with deep ruts, and she slid in. This time, I could not walk the tractor out by curling the bucket. It was in too deep, and the box blade was dragging. So...we had to walk back (about a mile?), and get the Surburban. Moral of the story...don't park too far away from your project and it's easier than you think to get stuck.

 

[SCDolphin]

Oh for a set of R-1's Ha Ha

 

[gordon21]

I believe your road bed needs some rock. Crowning mud and dirt merely double the numbers of directions the mud will slide.

 

[mikeyd]

Happens to everyone...I buried the skidsteer tonight. Slid off the trail into the deep muck, used the dozer to pull it out. Life goes on.

 

[Redbug]

Ohhh Lordy Hugh...I don't think R1's would have worked much either...I suspect it would have just dug itself deeper since it was so soft already, R1's are narrower...and the lugs would have filled up no matter what kind of tire you had on. Those ruts were probably near 3 1/2 to 4 feet in places where people had wallowed and used a winch to pull out. I had used the loader to fill most of the other wallows in the road and added more height in the middle for rain to run off.

I think if you just fill in a wallow it will reform in a roadbed unless you have some place for the water to drain to. That is why a crown and the ditch are so important in a road.

I used the box blade to pull material up from the sides of the road to the middle. Then tilted the BB and made passes down the road create slope.

I am in a learning curve here, is that the way you all do it? With a BB and loader how do you all create the ditch part?

 

[66gladiator]

Mud, what's that? All we have here is dust!

Waitin' on the rain.....................

 

[gotcha]

On Memorial Day, I was working on building up a road bed and adding a crown, but got too close to the mucky edge with deep ruts, and she slid in.

I'm sure glad you call the tractor a she as a HE would never have gotten into a postion like that.
The Gotcha Man

 

[Redbug]

Gotcha...Well, I had to do as she SAID!

66Glad...This clay in the river bottom swamps really holds the water, there is still lots of soil moisture in the bottoms. But in the sand hill country it is like the Sahara, and water just seeps away.

 

[AndyMA]

I'll bet you could have gotten out if you dropped the boxblade and used the loader to pull yourself out. You might have even made it out with boxblade attached.

 

[SteveA]

Been there.....done that........ a few weeks ago. Probably won't be the last time I bury the orange weed eater.

 

[Greenfield Dave]

Welcome to the club...I buried my L4400 that deep in SNOW and mud this winter, pulling a full manure spreader...SHE said "it does not look that deep!!"
Bu11sh** I said when she was buried...Thankfully I got out with the bucket in an hour or so.. Then, I did it again this spring pulling a fertilizer cart...misery loves company!!!

 

[Redbug]

Hi AndyMA...and the gang...I probably could have gotten out if I had unhooked the boxblade. It was hanging up in the goo and helping to hold the tractor back. But...it was easier to just go and get the surburban instead...unhooking the BB, dragging it out and getting muddy hooking it up again seemed like more hassle than it was worth. If I were alone, I may have done that, though.

I plan to finish filling in that wallow later this week.

 

[Turkeyman]

Nice pictures!
Use the curl and open the jaws of the 4 in 1 which will give you another 10-12" which may get you out. In real suppy mud you may need to push the jaws against a 3-4" vertical log.

 

[kbota]

Have been in similar situation, and could not release the attachment. Recently, I needed to haul a downed pine tree. It had been limbed, so I only needed to move the 85' of trunk which varied from about 10" to 30". I sat the bb on the small end, and chained the tree to the bb. Lifted it with 3ph, and proceeded to move the tree. Worked great until I started over a knoll when the bb lifted the rear end of the tractor. Front axle just dug in. Couldn't go forward, couldn't go back, couldn't release the bb. Working alone. %$#$*&(*&(* !

After a small tantrum, I started looking at things logically......*#%@*! anther trantrum. Didn't have my chainsaw with me - (that won't happen again)

But, I did have my trusty double bit axe. I am sooo glad that I had sharpened that puppy the day before. Took about an hour of serious logging work, but finally got the log to yield so the chain could get a little slack.

message - never bind the bb to anything the bb is sitting on. Works fine as long as the plane of the tractor doesn't change. Otherwise you could be in trouble.

After reflecting, I'm fortunate that I didn't overload the 3ph arms or worse !

k