[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Stuck! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 4/10/2011 3:56:50 AM EDT
TRG's last post in the tractor thread got me thinking about STUCK!
Figured I'd start a different thread just for the fun of it and so as to not clutter the tractor thread. These pics are a good reminder that: (1) Doesn't matter how big and powerful your machine is, you can get it stuck. (2) Having a backup plan is always a good thing. OK, now what do I do? (3) Somebody, somewhere, is having a worse day than you are. 
If you have good STUCK! pics, feel free to share. |
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this set of photos proves you can get ANY tractor stuck, no matter how big, how powerful, how many wheel drive, etc etc etc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfWxl2YYDy0 but for sheer entertainment value, Tractors in Trouble is always a good bet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2QMj3BeEO4 PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufN_udczGg PART 2 |
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Quoted: Quoted: Some of the stuff in those vids is sheer WTF!?. It's like they started to sink and then decided "hey, lets mud this mofo like it's 1985"..  and how do you overturn a tractor on level farmland? you'd REALLY have to work at it! ar-jedi Skill, pure skill.  |
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this set of photos proves you can get ANY tractor stuck, no matter how big, how powerful, how many wheel drive, etc etc etc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfWxl2YYDy0 but for sheer entertainment value, Tractors in Trouble is always a good bet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2QMj3BeEO4 PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufN_udczGg PART 2 Ouch... a few of those are over a half million dollar accidents... can't imagine... most likely all of them could have been avoided by using your brain... |
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TRG's last post in the tractor thread got me thinking about STUCK!
Figured I'd start a different thread just for the fun of it and so as to not clutter the tractor thread. These pics are a good reminder that: (1) Doesn't matter how big and powerful your machine is, you can get it stuck. (2) Having a backup plan is always a good thing. OK, now what do I do? (3) Somebody, somewhere, is having a worse day than you are.
If you have good STUCK! pics, feel free to share. 
I got my little tractor stuck three-four times in one day using the cultivator on freshly plowed ground. It went from 'working' to stuck' in under 2 seconds. That day sucked... I also got the little one stuck down in a ravine/wash when i high-centered the mower on an incline. I had to use the lifting boom from the Farmall to get it cleared. I've lost count of the times I have been stuck now. TRG |
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Some of the stuff in those vids is sheer WTF!?. It's like they started to sink and then decided "hey, lets mud this mofo like it's 1985".. and how do you overturn a tractor on level farmland? you'd REALLY have to work at it!
ar-jedi Ten years ago, I hired some of my students (HS) to help build a new fence around my property. I owned an H Farmall. I forget the particulars, but the students needed/wanted to use the farmall to move brush? Limbs? Wire? I don't recall. What I do recall is one of the boys running up to me and telling me the 'tractor was stuck'. As we began walking toward the area where they were working, I asked for more details. "Well, he was driving down by the creek, and it tried to get stuck, so he had the other guy standing on the rear tire to keep it from tipping all the way over..."
That was the end of the boys using the H to do their brush dragging. TRG |
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Thanks, this was recommended in another thread. It's different then what I had in my mind. TRG |
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That horse has his head up his ash. TRG |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYADguBJpDI&NR=1
I am pretty sure this is how these people got stuck... TRG |
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here is 100 PTO HP of W.T.F. ––> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBg-kWXRRH0 btw: at 0:40, if that happened to me, i would not have gone back to get my dad. "hey pops –– the tractor, tripples, planter, and sprayer –– they are all in the river." for my own safety, i would have just "disappeared" into the wilderness. ar-jedi |
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There's some serious WTF in that one.
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Quoted: There's some serious WTF in that one. And lots of it. |
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OK, you guys jinxed me. I have a land clearing project in process, but the weather in coastal NC hasn't been cooperating. We finally got a little dry weather and I was anxious to get in with my tractor and box blade to try and grade it a little.
Long story short, I think I found the only soft spot in the entire area I am preparing for our first garden. I got stuck, but fortunately its not as bad as the last time. I have a friend coming over tomorrow to help me pull it out, but thought I would share my own pictures capping off a "sucky day". 
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OK, you guys jinxed me. I have a land clearing project in process, but the weather in coastal NC hasn't been cooperating. We finally got a little dry weather and I was anxious to get in with my tractor and box blade to try and grade it a little. Long story short, I think I found the only soft spot in the entire area I am preparing for our first garden. I got stuck, but fortunately its not as bad as the last time. I have a friend coming over tomorrow to help me pull it out, but thought I would share my own pictures capping off a "sucky day". http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g446/sneakypete6/DSC00603.jpg http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g446/sneakypete6/StuckTractor1.jpg This is not the first time you have posted about getting that tractor stuck in the last week, is it? 
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Ever wonder how someone could roll a tractor over of level dry ground without using a front end loader.
Let this idiot show you how. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYwGm8mEhXI&feature=related I consider upside down pretty stuck.
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Quoted: Had to bring that one out didn't you Ops? Bastard. LOL I had one a little worse in my K5. I was sitting on the frame on both sides/ends down in the bottom of a wash. I didn't realize before going down into it that there was a spring.... Guy had to back up a hill and chain his frame to a few trees to winch me out. |
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OK, you guys jinxed me. I have a land clearing project in process, but the weather in coastal NC hasn't been cooperating. We finally got a little dry weather and I was anxious to get in with my tractor and box blade to try and grade it a little. Long story short, I think I found the only soft spot in the entire area I am preparing for our first garden. I got stuck, but fortunately its not as bad as the last time. I have a friend coming over tomorrow to help me pull it out, but thought I would share my own pictures capping off a "sucky day". http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g446/sneakypete6/DSC00603.jpg http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g446/sneakypete6/StuckTractor1.jpg This is not the first time you have posted about getting that tractor stuck in the last week, is it?
TRG I am embarassed to say, that "no" its not the first time getting stuck in the last week. I have been so anxious to get out in the area of the future garden that I just couldn't wait. 
Luckily, the guy clearing my land for me brought his excavator back out this morning. He just hooked the tractor to his bucket and used the arm to pull me out like it was nothing. He then went on to get my garden area looking pretty good, except for all the old tree roots. We brought in 60 yards of fill dirt today and it looked like we were trying to fill the Grand Canyon from a sandbox. It just made a dent. This is going to get real expensive at a $100 a load. I found a place today selling horse manure compost for $200 for 30 yards. I am going to get some of that dumped in as well. The guy selling it told me he would hold it for me till I was ready for it. It's going to probably cost me $85 dollars for the truck, so the compost will be $285 total. |
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Ever wonder how someone could roll a tractor over of level dry ground without using a front end loader. Let this idiot show you how. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYwGm8mEhXI&feature=related Oh, my.......that poor little tractor doesn't deserve those morons. 
I wonder if the tractor shut itself down before the engine FUBARed itself? |
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I like the picture at 0:18.......JD Gator hooked to a stuck ag tractor hauling a dump trailer. Now that's optimism!
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OK, you guys jinxed me. I have a land clearing project in process, but the weather in coastal NC hasn't been cooperating. We finally got a little dry weather and I was anxious to get in with my tractor and box blade to try and grade it a little. Long story short, I think I found the only soft spot in the entire area I am preparing for our first garden. I got stuck, but fortunately its not as bad as the last time. I have a friend coming over tomorrow to help me pull it out, but thought I would share my own pictures capping off a "sucky day". http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g446/sneakypete6/DSC00603.jpg http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g446/sneakypete6/StuckTractor1.jpg This is not the first time you have posted about getting that tractor stuck in the last week, is it?
TRG I am embarassed to say, that "no" its not the first time getting stuck in the last week. I have been so anxious to get out in the area of the future garden that I just couldn't wait.
Luckily, the guy clearing my land for me brought his excavator back out this morning. He just hooked the tractor to his bucket and used the arm to pull me out like it was nothing. He then went on to get my garden area looking pretty good, except for all the old tree roots. We brought in 60 yards of fill dirt today and it looked like we were trying to fill the Grand Canyon from a sandbox. It just made a dent. This is going to get real expensive at a $100 a load. I found a place today selling horse manure compost for $200 for 30 yards. I am going to get some of that dumped in as well. The guy selling it told me he would hold it for me till I was ready for it. It's going to probably cost me $85 dollars for the truck, so the compost will be $285 total. Ummmm, that's ridiculous. truly I move horse manure for a living (and get paid to move it) even if I have to go pick it up and load it and drive it across town it's $200 TOTAL for the load i would never PAY for horse manure find someone else. You will have to pay for the trucking. (and yes, my truck holds 30 yards) |
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Here's a page that has a series of instructional videos on tractor rollovers. The interface is clunky and the videos are of variable quality. Nonetheless, anybody who operates a tractor, no matter your skill level, would be well served by watching these videos.
http://ropsr4u.com/pa/videos/ ETA: 'Side No Seatbelt' is particularly creepy. 
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i would never PAY for horse manure find someone else. You will have to pay for the trucking. I agree. Many folks with big piles of accumulated horse poop and nothing to do with it are happy just to see it gone. The trick is finding someone who has the manure and also has a means to load on your truck/trailer. We just hauled about 15 yards (two dump trailer loads) of nicely composted horse manure. The lady's son loaded it with their loader and she was thrilled to see it gone. Total cost to me was the price of the truck's diesel and the time to go get it. |
I was working for Texas Power and Light on a ROW crew back in the late 70's. We had a Ford 6600 with a dozer blade on the front and a Marvel tree cutter on the back with single rear wheels. The tree cutter was amazing. It has a spring loaded tail wheel that would compact as you backed the mower into a tree. You could cut a 6-8 inch tree down with it if you knew what you were doing. My boss (Andy) was a surgeon with it. I had a 4400 Ford with a heavy duty brush hog and a dozer blade. Used to piss me off to no end to pass him in his air conditioned cab drinking a coke as I'm choking on dust and cut grass. One day Andy is cutting willow trees in a stock pond when he buries the tractor. We tie a chain from my 4400 to his front blade and try to pull him out. No go. We holler at Bob to bring the truck down to see if we can pull it out with the truck. Again no go. In desperation we tie the two tractors together with a chain and a chain from my dozer blade to the truck. The truck was a new 78 Ford 450 crew cab with a 150 gallon diesel tank in the back with various toolboxes on the side and dual wheels. Here we go.....Andy has his wheels turning, I ease into the chain and my wheels are spinning and I tell Bob on the radio to take the slack out of his chain. Bob, bless his heart, was the typical small town Big Southern Dummy. Instead of easing into the load he dumps the clutch and guns it. I watch the truck bounce twice, then stop as the rear end goes 90 degrees down and the drive shaft beats the hell out of the bed of the truck. Seems the saddles that hold the axles to the springs and the frame split and all hell broke loose from there. We finally get the line crew with the digger truck on the radio (who were 40 miles away) to come winch both tractors out. Ford found a design flaw in the rear end setup and the repairs to the truck were covered under warranty. Bob however, ran drag with a chainsaw and a backpack sprayer for the rest of the summer.
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EDIT I remember - somehow the log got perfect traction and the tractor flipped its self.
my memory is letting me down on this one, but I recall a similar idea posted on tractorbynet.com and someone who had seen the down side of that posted a scenario where this went went wrong, and I remember thinking wow, I woud lnot have predicted that outcome. I could be confusing this with something else but sorry Feral, I wish I could remember the details. Quoted:
Good stuff guys. I think I'll file away that chain-a-log-to-the-wheel maneuver in my memory.....might come in handy some day. 
Here's a guy who isn't stuck, but definitely has some nerve:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEHxuB2sXc |
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Here's a page that has a series of instructional videos on tractor rollovers. The interface is clunky and the videos are of variable quality. Nonetheless, anybody who operates a tractor, no matter your skill level, would be well served by watching these videos. http://ropsr4u.com/pa/videos/ ETA: 'Side No Seatbelt' is particularly creepy. thanks for posting - time to watch these again so I maintain respect for the widowmakers in my shed. |
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No pics but a funny story:
Just bought a brand new 4wd ranger, been dating this girl for about 6 months or so and it started raining so I said lets go do some wheeling... take the truck down the powerlines and bury it in some clay... not a bush or anything to hook the truck to.... we were pretty close to her house so she calls her dad asks where the keys to the tractor are he tells her (his fault he didnt ask any questions) and we go get the tractor, bury the tractor in the first mud hole before we even get to my truck... call her dad back and explain the situation... he leaves work (he has his own buisness) drives over and hooks the tractor to his work truck and we get that unstuck.. then drive the tractor through the woods to get my truck unstuck... Anytime I called about the tractor from then on he makes sure he asks why first 
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No pics but a funny story: Just bought a brand new 4wd ranger, been dating this girl for about 6 months or so and it started raining so I said lets go do some wheeling... take the truck down the powerlines and bury it in some clay... not a bush or anything to hook the truck to.... we were pretty close to her house so she calls her dad asks where the keys to the tractor are he tells her (his fault he didnt ask any questions) and we go get the tractor, bury the tractor in the first mud hole before we even get to my truck... call her dad back and explain the situation... he leaves work (he has his own buisness) drives over and hooks the tractor to his work truck and we get that unstuck.. then drive the tractor through the woods to get my truck unstuck... Anytime I called about the tractor from then on he makes sure he asks why first
Reminds me of a story of when I was dating... I was taking the young lady across a pasture for nefarious intent. I was driving a 2wd toyota, 1984 model. in the beam of the headlights, I saw a small stream of water. The kind that flows from a wet pasture, but does not hold water year round. It looked to be one foot wide, and maybe an inch deep with grass on both sides, so I assumed it was simply runoff from a recent rain. I decided my pickup would have no issue, I simply droe across it. BAM! That runoff/washout was a foot wide and three feet deep! I was on the frame with no way to get loose. We tried for an hour to get ourselves unstuck, eventually attempting to start her father's 1943 Farmall (it later became mine) to no avail. The was circa 1989, so neither of us had a cellphone. We made the 'walk of shame' up to her dad's house, about five miles away from the field, to ask him to help. He was pretty good with math. He added up the situation in his head and gave me 'the all-knowing-father's-glare' but did help retrieve my truck. TRG |
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was moving dirt on some friends land we had just cut the trench to run a water line to the barn
I got a bit close and dropped the front wheel in the trench. thinking I would get myself out before getting caught looking like a fool the dirt gave away and I dropped the rear tire in the trench as well. we dug with a shovel for a while but eventually gave in and used a 'dozer to lift the tractor out of the trench one end at a time I did bury a Kubota 4x4 a few times but luckily I used the FEL to walk it backwards |
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Recovering those trackhoes would be a nightmare How on earth does that happen? Some of these pictures are incredible. And the ones where the tractors are now vertical with their noses buried in the ground (in the youtube video that Ferral TRGposted).
Gonna have to talk to some farm friends to see if anyone has pictures. |
