Really Stuck in the mud

soder33 · Jul 22, 2010

I was looking at some pictures of stuck tractors and trucks and thought about the time I sunk our John Deere B up to the rear axle. Boy was Dad mad. It took our nieghbor's Oliver 880 to get it out and that was with a lot of digging. So I was wondering, how stuck have you been and how chewed out did you get?

JML755 · Jul 22, 2010

Hey, the boom and bucket is above ground. Why didn't the guy just dig himself out? :lol:

Just imagine what that sand will do to all the bearings, etc below ground.

Nancy Howell · Jul 22, 2010

Been stuck just once. James always told me if the wheels are turning, but you"re not moving, push the clutch in and shut it down. Don"t bury it up to the axle.

I shut it down real fast. Didn"t take much to get it out. Just a pull with from another tractor, no digging.

showcrop · Jul 22, 2010

The raincap is up. Is it still running? LOL

NEBeef · Jul 22, 2010

Not mud, but...

Probably the oddest "stuck" I ever was was in the woods, skidding a tree with the old 600 Ford. The tree hung up while I was on a side slope, the wheels spun and the tractor slid sideways. It was stopped when it slid up against a 10" tree. The tractor got sort of hooked on the tree, the tree being in between the rear tire and the tranny/diff. Couldn't go backwards due to slope, couldn't go forward due to tree. Trying to remove it by towing or just about any movement would have probably destroyed everything on that side of the tractor, so the only way to get it out was to take down the tree. It was pretty tricky dropping a tree that size in that situation without killing myself and/or the tractor, but we got it done...

Oh, and I chewed myself out pretty good for that one!

Looney · Jul 22, 2010

Fake picture.

greygoat · Jul 22, 2010

In the Army, on my 2ed hitch, in 1964, I was
stationed at the beach radar station at Fort
Ord, California. A 4 wheel drive army surplus
truck came along the beach, couple of guys
trying to impress a few girls. The truck was
doing wheelies, and got stuck, tried to get out
but just dug in deeper...and the tide was
coming in! six hours, more or less, later when
the tide went out, you could only see the top of
the cab roof, and an antenna. Next day nothing..
I don"t know if it was pulled out overnight, or
not. Todays photo is no fake ! It can happen

Inno · Jul 22, 2010

I have never really been "stuck" because my tractor has a backhoe on it.
But this past fall I got it in a bad place that I didn't realize was so wet. I was having a hard time engaging the bucket with the ground because it was partially frozen. All of a sudden it caught and pulled the tractor out so fast that the dipper came down with a thud and broke the eye off the end of the dipper cylinder. Didn't realize until a neighbor was helping me fix it that it bent the cylinder ram as well.............well a couple hundred $$ later and a day at the machine shop and all is well now...........it needed rebuilding anyway so I had them re-pack it while it was apart.

Mike (WA) · Jul 22, 2010

I'll bet it wasn't pulled out. Same thing happens on the ocean beaches here- the problem is, the "rescue vehicle", whatever it might be, can't get any leverage to pull or dig, or it will suffer the same fate. Of course, the deeper it gets, the more liquified the sand is, so the rig just sinks out of sight. Tow truck will try to get you out if you're not past the axles, but once you're beyond that, they just shrug.

James Howell · Jul 22, 2010

I have a lot of experience getting the Ford 2810 tractor stuck in the mud.

Usually occurs when I'm mowing with the rotary cutter in low spots.

Once it stops moving, shut it down and start walking to the house.

Start up "15" our '53 JD 70 and go pull out the Ford tractor.

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Put "15" in 1st with low idle speed and start the pull; works every time.

Fred Martin · Jul 22, 2010

I once was bush hogging opening up a field along a fence near a house...probably 50 feet away. All of a sudden the rear wheels started spinning, I was stuck. The ground was really black and it smelled to high heaven. It was then that I started looking around...I saw a clay tile apparently coming from the house and they had routed their sewage across the lawn and into the neighbor's field. I had to get off and unhitch the PTO shaft to raise the mower high enough to get out of the mess and some traction but, I made it out okay and gave a big "Thank you Lord!" Was real careful on next rounds and kept away from the slime. ohfred

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2010

What rain cap? The Komatsu doesn't have a rain cap. Dave

Richard from SE AZ · Jul 22, 2010

Not a tractor, but when I was stationed at Pt Mugu in Calif. one of our duty stations was San Nicolas Island on the Santa Catalina chain . We had a radar station there that was manned at all times.Not much to do when not on duty but fish or ride around the island on whatever vehicle we could scrounge up. One afternoon a buddy and I checked out the ambulance and rode to the NW end of the island to look at an aircraft carrier that had beached there after it broke loose from its mooring when being used for target practice. We drove out on the beach as close as we could and of course we got stuck. We decided to walk back to the base and go get the ambulance the next morning.Guess what, when we got out there next day it was GONE!! Our CO got us out of hot water by reporting it stolen. Never did explain how someone got it off the island.

paul · Jul 22, 2010

Seen some large backhoe/ excavators that get into quicksand, and only the arm and perhaps the cab roof are sticking out. They get stuck, keep trying & sink in until the engine swamps, then they continue to settle in the sand until something bigger gers set up to go after them. Now those are stuck!

I got the Ford 7700 stuck in a clay seep hole where it was setting on the belly, tires really were not more than barely touching. Had a semi mounted plow on the back that was in the ground when it was all the way up, and jammed so in the mud that couldn't really unhook it. Took dad & mom on 2 other tractors to pull that out. Dad might not have been happy, but he'd done about the same in the same spot.

Worst for me was getting the combine stuck in the same spot 20 years later. All alone, had to inch the combine out by pulling with a long chain, resetting brakes and shortening chain, took _many_ trips between the combine & tractor.

Was very tuckered out, went to the other side of the field, drove 1/2 way back & sunk in a hillside on that side of the field. Took 3/4 as much effort to get the combine out again.

I drove back to the house and sat for an hour. It might not have been the most spectacular looking 'stuck', but it was the most memerable for me.

--->Paul

showcrop · Jul 22, 2010

None of the ones that I have run have either. But in the picture it looks like a muffler with about 3 inch pipe coming out the top, with a rain cap sticking up.

fixerupper · Jul 22, 2010

On a documentary about the Alaskan Highway they claimed some cats that were left idling overnight on the muskeg vibrated themselves down below the ground and they were just left there. Has anybody else heard about that? Jim

Bob Bancroft · Jul 22, 2010

I've heard that where the NYS Thruway (interstate 90) crosses the Montezuma swamp they couldn't find any bottom. They just kept filling until they got a floating road bed that didn't sink any more. And there's at least one Cat that sunk out of sight.

cjk · Jul 22, 2010

I ve been stuck twice, got out both times.
1st time I was looking to get some wood out of the neighbors
marsh land. He had some nice firewood down towards the
back. The man that lives next to the marsh said he didnt have
anything to help pull me out if I got stuck. Just the way he
said it should have been enough but no, I was going in to get
some firewood. I made it about 50 yds and had to drive over a
metal culvert in a small ditch. Once the front tires got over
the culvert they dropped into soft black dirt and the oil pan
rested on the culvert. No point in going any farther forward so
I tried to back up. Every time I would back up the front tires
would sink in more and the culvert would roll back with me. I
finally emptied the chainsaw and other gear out of the loader bucket
and used it to lift the front tires on top of the culvert and get
out.
Never got any wood made back there to this day.

Second time pulling a disc and drag I hit a soft spot and
stopped dead. I was able to unhitch and get the tractor out,
then carefully pull the drag and then the disc out.

omahagreg · Jul 22, 2010

Must have been fall of 1982, I was helping a guy with corn and bean harvest. He was running the combine, I was running his wagons back to the bins. He lived on some real flat ground south of Sioux City (Luton Iowa). He had warned me to never stop on any muddy areas, but this time he waves me underneath his spout, so never even looked! Went to leave, and the gravity box was down to the axles! He walked home and got the other tractor and we got it out, BUT, at least it was his idea...! Greg

730 virgil · Jul 22, 2010

i once got stuck mowing brush i knocked down a scrub tree only it was to big for brush mower to cut. the tree spring back up and raised rear tractor tires off of the ground.
ended up cutting tree off with chain saw

M Puller in WI · Jul 22, 2010

i have a few. one time i was plowing for my boss and his land is kiddy-corner from our land and day was plowing the field at home accross the road. anyways i hit a low spot and sunk the 970 case to the belly...as dad watched. he came over with the 706 and pulled me out. another time dad was hauling manure in the spring and sunk the 70 past the drawbar. hooked 2 tractors on it ad could not budge it. had to jack it up and shove logs under the tires until he could drive it out best one is the other neighbor was chisel plowing in early spring and sank a 4640 to the axles. it took some digging with a bull dozer and a case 1030 dualed up and a 4020 dualed up plus the dozer pulling to even move it. that was after the tires were dug out!
M Puller

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2010

I don't think that's an exhaust stack sticking up. Dave

Bob/wis · Jul 22, 2010

Well since everyone is talking about mud and sand. I will tell my tale of snow then. I was using my 730 Case to pull in logs for firewood a few winters back. I was running double ring chains on the tires. Needless to say the old girl could go about any where. Except, when you slid off the packe wheels tracks from a few weeks before. At that time there was about 2-3 feet of snow in the flats with it drifted good along the tree line. My first trips the weeks before packed a nice hard trail on the snow. On that day I slid of the tracks and hung the tractor up on the packed snow. So it was a nice cool half mile walk back to the house to get the shovel. Nope no other tractors ready for winter use. I jump on the snowmobile and get back to teh tractor. When I got the snow dug from around the wheels they were off the ground atleast 8 inchs each side. The packed snow was to hard for the shovel. So, I ened up useing the chainsaw to cut the snow off under the tractor. Moral of this story is, have your wood put up before snow flys! And the walk back to get the snowmobile was just as fun as the walk to get the shovel.
Bob

Mike (WA) · Jul 23, 2010

I'm thinking its the periscope.

Shetland Sheepdog · Jul 23, 2010

If one stuck isn't enough, stick another one! Matt would be proud! LOL

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