kozal01
Platinum Member
Nothing major but I was thankful for my tractor this spring when I got my ZTR stuck
Pictures of freeing stuck equipment with your tractor
JCoastie
Platinum Member
Branch stuck underneath
Eagle1
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2003
- Messages
- 2,386
- Location
- Viburnum, MO
- Tractor
- Kubota BX2200, LS XG3135H, Grasshopper and Yazoo Zturns
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.
EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
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.
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
Gold Member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2015
- Messages
- 389
- Location
- South Texas
- Tractor
- New Holland Powerstar 120, Powerstar 75, New Holland c245
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...
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
New member
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2021
- Messages
- 4
- Tractor
- Kubota BX 2680
I'm glad there's no pictures of some of my adventures.
smiley
Gold Member
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.
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.
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Gord Baker
Platinum Member
Good Recovery. Lessons learned.
