How NOT to use heavy equipment on a wet field

[BOO]

Talk about "Dumb" and "Dumber".

BOO

[hunter 1500]

A few years ago a neighbor's hired man got his 4 wd tractor and spreader stuck. I helped him get it out. First thing was to get rid of the contents of the spreader. Next we took a chainsaw and cut a tree down. We then cut it in to 4 foot sections and chained them to the wheels running the chain through the slots on the rims then around the logs. As soon as the logs rotated to the ground the tractor picked it's self right out of the hole. Not pulling the spreader and being on a little more solid ground he was able to get the tractor out and then hooked on with chains to the spreader and pulled it to solid ground.

[CaptainJoe]

Never though of using a log that way but it sounds like it would work. Although, I've never had a tractor stuck bad enough that i couldn't just pull it out with another tractor or bulldozer. ...

[Flyinfool]

I have only ever personally seen one tractor stuck in the mud.

It while I was visiting on my uncles farm.

He went back to the house to get his big old Ford P/U and proceed to get that stuck to.

Fortunately (for him) it was close enough to the road that between us we had enough chain, cable and tow straps to reach the road and I was able to pull his tractor and P/U out with my GMC P/U.

It was only a week after that that he sold his Ford P/U and got a GMC P/U just like mine.

[sdive]

I've seen a few similar situations back when I was living in Winnipeg. Looks like they ran into some silt that was totally saturated. Last time I aws involed in something like that it was 3 dozers and the cables were so tight between the 3 of them that they had to cut the cables and build mats to get them out 10s of thousands later.

 

Ron

[dray]

just a good set of swamp pads and drive it right out nothing to it; its just all the trying playin and swearing before ya get the pads there:sign It wasnt me: