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Frankie

11-04-2004 13:32:04

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So Who Has Really Gotten Their Tractor Stuck? I Mean Like It Took Multiple Tractors and/or Trucks To Pull Out! I Love To Hear Some Stories!

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Nolan

11-05-2004 04:28:25

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

Was mowing with my 8N around the back side of the pond on the new farm. The area was a bit soft and wet, but I wasn't having any problems.

Unbeknownst to me, that wasn't soft ground, but a foot thick mat floating on top of a second hidden pond.

On my last pass, a front tire punched through, and the tractor drive down into the pond I didn't know was there before I could react. Ended up sitting there so deep that the carburetor was lapping the water. Hip deep on me in mud and water.

I spent three days winching and pulling, trying to get that tractor out. I was making progress, but it was mighty slow hard work. A neighbor finally took pity on me and came over with a huge 7000 series Deere and popped me out almost instantly.

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John A

11-04-2004 20:29:47

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

Frankie, In 1983 We had a gettin stuck party. It was quite a ordeal....Had a 6 in rain, were checking cattle and fences after the storm when we stuck a 4x4 pickup on a blowsand grass hill....Then got another 4x4 pickup stuck,....Plus our neighbors old 4x4 stuck too. Ok so we got his 1206 IH, got out his pickup, Ok!, But then stuck the 1206 to he axle before we got to the 2nd pickup. Went and got our 4640, Got out his 1206, but got it hung up before we got to #2 pickup. By this time of day we had been going 4 hrs.
So we decided that we would go get our 8640 JD, 250 hp 4x4, articulating in the middle tractor. Well we got in there got out the 4640, the 2nd pickup. Now only leaving the first pickup to get out. We snaked in on the grass pasture and got to the 1st pickup, gingerly got it out, then all #ell, broke loose.... the bottom fell out from under it and it was hung up on the axles. This whole show played out within 30 feet of the dirt road by this pasture. well it took 2 weeks for ti to dry out enough to try to get it out, it still took one of our 4640s with duals and a huge tow rope to get it out. This was the talk of the neighborhood for a while.
Later,
John A.

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Can't even use my name

11-05-2004 17:50:10

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Re: Stuck! in reply to John A, 11-04-2004 20:29:47

This leads to the tip of the day when it comes to pulling stuff out of the mud. ALWAYS ALWAYS get the biggest tractor you have or else you will be walking to get it anyways to now remove two stuck pieces.

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John A

11-05-2004 20:47:35

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Can't even use my name, 11-05-2004 17:50:10

Can't, Possibly!...But in this story we shouldn't have been out in this "Blow Sand" area. There is simply no bottom to it.
Later,
John A.

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Leland

11-04-2004 19:48:37

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

2505 Terra Gator fall 93 after all the rain that summer going along to knife poop in and the ground just swallowed it. Was stuck so bad could not even spin wheels. Took 2 other gators and a boat anchor chain to remove it. And only took 3 dump trucks full of dirt to close hole. 544 deere loader stuck so deep I climbed up out of hole D-8 cat to free. 933 cat track loader pushing up fill to old pond went to far you could not see it until you walked up to hole,3 days of tugging with tractors .Saw a combine stuck so deep they had to wait until ground froze then jack it up and stack bales of straw to drive it out.

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Rod F.

11-04-2004 18:42:25

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

The worst I ever had to extract was our TS90 NH with a 4 bottom mounted plow. My brother buried it to the axles, with the drawbar housing firmly planted on a large rock, and the plow fully raised and in the ground. It took a 7710 and 3930, both FWD and sitting on hard ground to drag that out. For a while, it looked like we were floating the D4 in, but it finally came loose. Seen some other dandy's too, but that was the worst.

Rod

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kyhayman

11-04-2004 16:51:02

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

How many hundred times (you think I would learn).

1. 2090 Case, creek bank gave way and over she went. Took 2 Kenworth wreckers to wench it out.

2. 7600 Ford, last week, wet weather spring, all the way to the axles, front and rear. 7710 Ford and a Case backhoe.

3. (and the worst) 7710 Ford, pulling out 7610 Ford. Took 200' of chain and a JD 550 dozer to pull it out.

4. (and the most repetitive). 36 days in a row, Dodge truck. by myself. Finally broke down and bought an atv.

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Leland

11-04-2004 19:53:30

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Re: Stuck! in reply to kyhayman, 11-04-2004 16:51:02

Hows the body healing after your little spill,hope your getting better.

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kyhayman

11-04-2004 19:58:52

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Leland , 11-04-2004 19:53:30

Thank you for asking! Slow but sure. I can use my arm pretty well, not much strength but good motion (and hurts like the devil whether I use it or not). Whole lot of pain, Find out the Tue before Thanksgiving if I get to have surgery for my Christmas present.

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Punchie

11-05-2004 03:26:06

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Re: Stuck! in reply to kyhayman, 11-04-2004 19:58:52

Hope all goes well , with your arm.
Teddy

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Leland

11-04-2004 20:05:35

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Re: Stuck! in reply to kyhayman, 11-04-2004 19:58:52

I hope not surgery is worse than the accident I always thought best of luck.

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Bernie in MA

11-04-2004 15:51:42

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

My BIL was backfilling a waterfilled ditch with my first crawler, a JD MC. He got going at an angle and tipped it in sideways. This was 40 years ago, before today's excavators. Got a huge backhoe on tracks to hoist it outta there. My Grandma got more worked up about that than when the barn burned.

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Mitchissippi

11-04-2004 14:40:17

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

Cousin's 4020 went down so deep, the lift arm on another 4020 bent the canopy when he backed up to it. Skidder with a big winch pulled him out.

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paul

11-04-2004 13:53:34

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

Well, I just burried my combine today. Twice. Once on each end of the field. I'm a one man show, so had to dig it out myself - a garden spade, a tractor & long chain, and a _lot_ of trips up & down the cabs to rock it out.

Did I mention twice?????

One time I burried the plow tractor that it was just sitting on the tranny, the rear wheels wren't doing much but hanging there. The plow was semi-mounted, and was basically in the ground, tho all the way up.

Took 2 tractors to pull that one out.

I've learned to stop & think it over a little sooner now, before just totally burrying things...

--->Paul

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Punchie

11-05-2004 03:44:20

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Re: Stuck! in reply to paul, 11-04-2004 13:53:34

Hey talking about combines. I was working in northeast OH , the oil electric service. My boss and I watched this combine going along in this field. Boy is wet thinking to my self. Well next day we watch the combine with track, 6 row corn head setting in the field. Think yep too wet. Later that after noon watch a huge JD with 38in double dual out there backing up(150-200HP,hinge in the middle tractor). Thinking that thing would have no trouble at all. Well the next day it was out there and looked very bad, up to her under belly. After a few dry days, we watched and nothing, than we looking and there was a doeser (sp) out there digging a way, next day it look like they were digger a huge hole and going to push the whole lot in it LOL. Must have had 1/3 1/2 acre of ground move . They got it out not sure when, most have been stuck for a week or close to it.

Teddy

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Can't even use my name

11-04-2004 14:10:38

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Re: Stuck! in reply to paul, 11-04-2004 13:53:34

If you got it out yourself than it ain't stuck too bad. Dad has had our TR95 combine stuck several times that took a Case 2590 with duals and a MF 1800 4WD to get out. The Case would put tension on its chain and the MF hooked to a huge rope to yank on it. Soon as the rope gets tight Case has to pull. Had to do this till she popped loose. Would pull the Case right back sometimes. Also had a loaner TR97 stuck this bad too. Have yet to break anything getting them back out.

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rustyfarmall

11-04-2004 13:37:27

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

Put a 3020 deere in so deep once that when I finally gave up I did not need to step down at all, just walked off the platform. Took a 4010 and the neighbor with a 3010 to pull it out. I was about 13 or 14 at the time.

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Frankie

11-04-2004 13:36:44

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Re: Stuck! in reply to Frankie, 11-04-2004 13:32:04

I Know I Did Twice...
First Time: Turning Around In Mud... Dug My Tractor Down To The Frame and It Pulled Itself Out.
Second Time: Just Cruisin Through It and I Got Stuck On A Clump Of Grass... My Moms Modern Lawn Tractor Got It Out. (In Stuck and Troubled third or fourth page)

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