Neighbourly Thing...

[yandeereguy]

little tractor stuck little problem, BIG tractor stuck BIG problem!!

but really what is anyone gonna do with a 25-30hp lawn/garden tractor.. keep it protected in the garage and wax it ever so often..

Thats what I do with mine anyways

 

[yandeereguy]

You ain't bad stuck until your "bulldozer" stuck...My dad buried grandpas dozer so bad it was a mess of astronomical proportions :thumbsup:ever seen a cat d8 buried clear past the tracks.. wrong way to find a marsh thats for sure..

 

[Lloyd_E]

You ain't bad stuck until your "bulldozer" stuck...My dad buried grandpas dozer so bad it was a mess of astronomical proportions :thumbsup:ever seen a cat d8 buried clear past the tracks.. wrong way to find a marsh thats for sure..

Ya ya prove it! I mean pictures are worth a thousand words and many dollars. Ya can't lead us on with a story like that and not show pictures... that's cheating... lol.

 

[Kioti Tom]

You know, after looking at the thumbnail of the stuck tractor, it occured to me that it might have helped if he had a tooth bar on his bucket. He could have jammed it in and curled it to help work it out if not too badly stuck.

We all have our moments of stupidity and embarrasment..Me included.

Tom

 

[bcp]

Using loader bucket (and a hand winch) to push when stuck:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23V2kE6UJNk]Getting our Crawler Loader Unstuck... - YouTube[/ame]

Bruce

 

[xryan]

OK I have to throw in my story.

Friend around the (LONG) block whom which I always borrow one of his Bobcat Skid Steers, who alerted me to the house/farm for sale which I bought over the winter. (No more dealing with "cityiots" and the town fathers harassing me about equipment and trailers in the driveway!)

So in the fall I borrowed bobcat, was using it for a week or two, other bobcat already on site for snowplowing contract we do...one of his goats die. I was SUPPOSED to have already returned it...ah I'll do it tomorrow....

So he gets in one of the BIG front wheel loaders (55,000lb) we use also for snow plowing and drives on the grass (wet) around back of barn to dig a hole for the goat. Loader #1 gets stuck. Yes "overkill" for the dead goat, but hey I still have the skid steer at my house with neighbors complaining to the town.

Enter wheel loader #2 (55,000lb) to rescue #1 and doesn't get too far...

This is about the time I show up with equipment trailer and the bobcat. He's not real happy.

Now there are 110,000lbs of equipment stuck. #1 is up to the frame in mud/grass/dead goat, #2 is on its way to being buried to the frame as well.

We better call in reinforcements.

Enter REAL farmer from down the road and BRAND SPANKIN NEW 670hp, 2100lbs torque, New Holland T9 tractor with 8 big old R1s that are taller than me and one really heavy steel cable.

I don't think he even locked the differentials. Low gear...pulled BOTH wheel loaders out like a kid with 2 old pull toy trucks. Farmer got to play with his new tractor and 2 wheel loaders unstuck from where they never should have gone with ROAD tires.

Then I buy a farmhouse this winter and in the spring I get my little Kioti CK20 stuck with the mid mounted mower all they way in the mud with turf tires (duh). So I call my buddy to pay it forward and rescue me with the mini excavator...

I need some R1's.

 

[sodamo]

One of my neighbors is currently looking for help

 

[jimmyj]

Bigger tractor just means you get stuck deeper in, like pickups with 4WD.

Agreed!!!!

 

[lilranch2001]

No... not at all. I gut stuck and managed to get unstuck several times. At some point your luck runs out. His did and mine may at some point.

And he may have got stuck due to the size. He even acknowledges that. He now realizes that his tractor is undersized for the things he wants to do. Like he says "I now have a very expensive lawn mower" - he does have a mower deck for the unit too... and a chipper, BH etc... and I am jealous. Would love to have it as a mower!

Lloyd

it doesnt even appear he tried to get himself out using his FEL
The FEL is clean!

 

[JonKioti]

I think the issue with using the bucket and HST is the Kubotas may not have the same amount of hydraulic flow as we are used to with the Kiotis. While this may have changed in the last couple of years, my experience with the Kubota CUT I used to rent was they seemed to have a limited amount of actions at one time.

Thoughts?

Jon

 

[TripleR]

I think the issue with using the bucket and HST is the Kubotas may not have the same amount of hydraulic flow as we are used to with the Kiotis. While this may have changed in the last couple of years, my experience with the Kubota CUT I used to rent was they seemed to have a limited amount of actions at one time.

Thoughts?

Jon

I think I am about tired of the Kioti v Kubota stuff.

 

[lilranch2001]

I think the issue with using the bucket and HST is the Kubotas may not have the same amount of hydraulic flow as we are used to with the Kiotis. While this may have changed in the last couple of years, my experience with the Kubota CUT I used to rent was they seemed to have a limited amount of actions at one time.

Thoughts?

Jon

my thoughts in this instance is he didnt even try to use the FEL, so it doesnt matter if it is the flow rate or not.

 

[ritcheyvs]

A couple of times I thought my DK45S (R4s) was stuck in deep mud but I was able to move it slowly (in 4WD) even though the wheels were mostly spinning. In another instance, the loader saved me when I got high-centered on a stump hidden in the weeds.

 

[IslandTractor]

I think I am about tired of the Kioti v Kubota stuff.

Agree. There is no reason a Kubota HST cannot use its loader to self rescue.

Kioti claims slightly hIgher pump outputs typically but also doesn't separate steering from total while Kubota typically reports them separately.

 

[Jesse masterson]

Well I still haven't heard the whole story of the d8 it usually takes another dozer to pull out a dozer especially when they get that big . So what pulled you out.

 

[Alan L.]

We all make fun of 'the other side', you folk with the tiny tractors make fun of the monster tractors as well from time to time - it's all in good fun, i like to smile at both sides.

Now, he got stuck for 2 reasons - a bit of inexperience, and the wrong choice in tires.

A lot of those small tractors are sold with the wrong tires. Those construction type are not made for traction, they are made to wear well on highway use.

Get good tires on that little tractor, and it will be a whole different animal.

With more experience and proper tires, it would be very hard to stick a light tractor with a loader & backhoe - it should be able to work itself out of 95% of the stuff it can get itself into.

Lot of small tractor owners have no experience in using the things, and they make poor choices on the accessories - like tires. I see that on here all the time, questionable recommendations on tires or properly weighting a loader tractor.

Make a person smile a bit.

Now, when I burry a big farm tractor, I do it along the county blacktop of course, and the tractor will be sitting there in the mud for all the neighbors to see, as well as the muddy tracks for a week or 2.... And they all make sure to have a good laugh at my expense.

Gotta chuckle along with them whwen I'm the dummy.

--->Paul

So, we not only have "tiny" tractors but we're also stupid