Now this is a tractor!

[Hay Dude]

It happens. I have gotten stuck where you cross a wet spot and there’s a dry spot just a few feet ahead.
You think you can make it

But you don’t quiiiiiiiite get there

Arghhhhh

 

[LHF2019]

I agree; in this case there was no excuse for burying it that deep.
The old adage applies, when you find yourself in a hole_ stop digging.

Did you watch the video? I finally did. I see nothing wrong. Sometimes the bottom just falls out. Looks very heavy in clay. Once your in your done.

Plowed ground but similar situation. Bottom falls out. Unhooked implement, pull tractor out then use chain from tractor to implement to get it past the wet hole.

 

[LHF2019]

Poor decisions were made.

Based on?

 

[tacticalturnip]

Based on?

Eyesight. At some point someone made an irreversible decision that resulted in that machine being buried. It doesn't have to be intentionally bad; the decision may be nothing more than heading out into a wet field that one has worked a million times before.

That tractor can't get itself stuck, just as much as a firearm can't commit a crime.

 

[LHF2019]

Eyesight. At some point someone made an irreversible decision that resulted in that machine being buried. It doesn't have to be intentionally bad; the decision may be nothing more than heading out into a wet field that one has worked a million times before.

That tractor can't get itself stuck, just as much as a firearm can't commit a crime.

But if the ground all looks the same from the seat you won't know until to late. You don't get a choice when the bottom falls out. Had they been half a tractor width on either side that video may not have ever been made. Not the tractors fault and not the drivers. Like I said been there done that in my pictures above. The entire field worked the same until that pass I got stuck in. If it had looked irregular compared to the rest of the field I would have had the opportunity to be more cautious.

Think of it like the ground opening up from a natural underground cavern and swallowing a house. Who's fault it is it....nobody's.

 

[Sportsman762]

Sometimes the bottom just falls out. Looks very heavy in clay. Once your in your done.

I have a swamp in the one field. Your fine as long your on top. Once you break through the grass your sitting on the frame. Its annoying, and it sucks getting the tractor out. However its fine most the time.

The larger the tractor, it seems the quicker they will go down. I know I was surprised how quick I would stuck in the heavier 20k tractors compared to my 7k Massey. I image that a 40K Big Bud 435 would go down damn quick compared to Kioti that weighed 6.8% of it. The ground "appears" solid around it despite it obviously not, and I do not see any big piles of mud behind the wheels that would suggest a light stuck then and idiot trying to get out. It looks like the operator went down, gave it a side wiggle that works great at unsticking articulated tractors, then stopped. There is some small mud piles on the side of the machine that suggests a wiggle was tried. That is what my eyesight and experience is saying. I was always glad I never sunk my friends JD 9400. Its easy to arm chair quarter back, but going out there and doing it and encountering the problems yourself is different.

 

[RayIN]

Watch the video again, and you'll notice the speaker knows about the fields soft spots.

I once worked for a large farmer, this time driving his big Ford 4WD pulling a 30' disc. He told me to disc in 2WD and If i felt the rears loosing traction or noticed the slip gauge reading more than 15% to engage front wheel assist until i got past the soft spot.
That happened twice in one field, and front wheel assist worked exactly as he described to prevent getting hung-up.

 

[LHF2019]

Watch the video again, and you'll notice the speaker knows about the fields soft spots.

I once worked for a large farmer, this time driving his big Ford 4WD pulling a 30' disc. He told me to disc in 2WD and If i felt the rears loosing traction or noticed the slip gauge reading more than 15% to engage front wheel assist until i got past the soft spot.
That happened twice in one field, and front wheel assist worked exactly as he described to prevent getting hung-up.

Correct. What are you saying? I have fields that have soft spots. And can go through them just fine. But then .......................done. Why? Springs move, tile lines seep, veins appear. All the history can't prepare for something you still can't see underground.

So he says soft spots. Are they temporary, permanent, weather related, infrastructure related. Again when it is go time you go and make the best of it.

There is a difference between wet fields and soft spots. It is the soft spots that will get you. A wet field you stay out of.

 

[LHF2019]

I have a swamp in the one field. Your fine as long your on top. Once you break through the grass your sitting on the frame. Its annoying, and it sucks getting the tractor out. However its fine most the time.

I did the same thing this past summer. Dry spell and had the opportunity to brush hog the swamp. I pushed my luck and needed a 2nd tractor.

 

[RayIN]

Speaking of wet fields;
Sometimes "geter-done" doesn't work well, ang gets expensive, as witnessed by this stuck sprayer.