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notjustair

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Seems like we are having lots of "lists" for lack of a better word. Here's one for you - how badly have you been stuck?

I ask because I just finished pulling the loader tractor out. I was moving dirt in a hog pen. I did that, "it's a little soft here, so I better only drive here one more time" thing. That is always when I get stuck. I never stop when I think it is soft, I always go in one more time.

It wasn't too bad - the 4020 was able to get it out with a little grunting. I have never had anything stuck that a tractor here couldn't pull out. I have a neighbor that needed one of those monster wreckers. That will humble you real quick.
 
Had the combine stuck once had to have the jd8410 & white 2-155 (both fwd) hooked to me to get out. Ironically the only time I have had a combine stuck. Most embarrassing time 2wd 2-135 stuck pulling the drag, dad hooked to it with the farmall m and pulled er out. The white's tires were pretty bald.
 
I have a low spot that eats tractors, best dirt on the farm, if lucky, you would plant it 5 out of 10 years and harvest it once every 10 years. A friend was helping me plow in the early 70's. He had a 1850 and a DMI 4 bottom plow. He stopped at the edge of it and while we were talking, the rear of his tractor sank to the axles. Unhooked the plow and it took my 1850 and the neighbors 4020 and my JD 730 all hooked together to get it out. It's a shallow water area now. Chris
 
Got my WD Allis stuck behind the pond dike one time. Had to call the neighbor with his 4020 JD to pull it out. Spin around till the dish in the one rear wheel was full of mud and the other wheel half full. With that much weight in mud the front end gets light real fast when you start to let out on the clutch.
 
One time plowing some sod in the spring with my 1370 case and I hit a frost boil. I stopped right away and went to get another tractor. When I got back the 1370 had sunk to the belly. I was able to open the door and step in the cab. Ended up needing to get a 4 wheel drive tractor to get it out.
 
My brother Don was combining oats for my dad and got his 9500 jd combine stuck. My dad used his best team of horses to pull it out.
 
When I was logging, we were playing around a few peat bogs in the summer. Bad idea. I was running the Tigercat 630C (big, big 4 wheel skidder), and broke through the peat. Stepped straight out of the cab onto the ground. Straight, no step up or down. Just about buried the Tigercat 870 buncher trying to suck me out. I stood in the wheel tracks after we got it out. The top of my hat was all you could see (I'm 6'1").

Buried a tri-drive tanker in the middle of a lease road, kind of a wet sand/pit run mix. Both bumpers and fuel tanks sitting firmly on the ground. Had to have another tanker pump my load off, and get a tandem/tridem bed truck to winch me out.
 
My brother was brush-hogging with a John Deere 50 narrow front
along a 6ft deep trench that was recently dug to bury new water lines.
He got a little too close and the rear tire slid into the trench.
I don't know why, but he tried to "work it out" of there, even though
the tractor was setting on the right axle housing.
He ended up with the right rear wheel and both front ones in that trench,
and the left rear half buried from "working it".
We ended up running the new water lines under the tractor, jacking
the tractor up one end at a time, filling the trench in manually on each
end then letting the tractor down and driving it away.
No tow bill, but my back will never be the same!
 
My uncle hired a city kid in the mid 60's to spread horse manure. He told him not to spread in back half of the intended field as there was a saturated sand patch running across the field about 50 feet wide and 4 feet deep in the middle.
He didn't have a clue what that meant, nor what 1/2 the field looked like.
The H was 4 feet deep (right at the platform) when he walked off into the quicksand like muck. Lost both boots getting out on dry land and walked a mile back to the house barefoot.
It took 2 other tractors as anchors and a slow crank on a 3 ton yale roller chain comealong to ease it out without tearing something up. Boots are still there! Jim
 
I've only been stuck once. I was hauling brush for my MIL and she very specifically said, "Don't pull off the driveway or you will get stuck. Just throw the brush along side the driveway." I didn't listen and buried it up to the axle.

Humbling is calling your MIL to let her know you need her to call a wrecker because you are stuck because you went off the driveway even though she told you not to.

Grace is when she went ahead and paid the wrecker bill and didn't rub it in for too long!
 
In central CA Delta there a res of peat bogs that they farm. But you don't take a large tractor out on them in the winter like one farmer did with his D-8 Cat yes it broke though the top crust and was never seen again. They figure it's about 1500 ft down now.
Walt

Neighbor did this to our 1066 IH he was plowing up one of our hay fields that He was not supposed to be on.

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Spent a summer running a GPS guided 12yard scraper behind a NEW JD 8430 a few years back. Did a job on the other side of the county. Hadn't beey working half an hour when I hit a spot where the irrigation canal had been seeping. SUNK the tractor to the frame. Duals front and back on the tractor. Called the boss who had just left. When he got back he said "You really musta spun it out to bury it like that!" "Nope, it just sunk!" I could tell he didn't believe me. Rancher we were workin for had an OLD D-8 that pulled er right out. Boss took it for a round, went to the DRY side of where I had stuck it. SANK in to the axles again. "Oh" he said "better just stay clear of that area...."

Ben
 
I can show you where I lost an old Cat D8 cable machine that I lost in a peat bog. Ins paid more then that old thing was worth. There is another one at the bottom of the Merrimac river in Methuen MA lol
 
I have had a Cat 330 (80,000 lb excavator) in the Mississippi river batcher digging out a area. Even though I was sitting on 2 crane mats (4ft x 20ft) every time I would swing around the mats would sink a few inches.
I would dig in one area till the counter weight was rubbing the ground; then dig out the mats and move over a few feet and start all over again.
Took me about a week of steady digging to clear a area about 1000 ft by 500 ft by 6 ft deep cause as fast as I would dig it out the soft wet sand would run back into the hole.

I guess that was not really stuck cause I was always able to dig myself out but that is the wettest sand I have ever been in.
 
When I was starting out, I buried the plowing tractor, and let is spin. I was in a spring area. Tractor was sitting on the transmission, both rear wheels were basically hanging in ruts without really touching anything until I stopped. Plow was semi mounted, and fully in the ground even with the 3pt up.

Took 2 tractors to pull me out, dad wasn't too happy.

Same area, years later, got the combine stuck on the same spot. Had to pull it out myself, inch it out with a tractor, run back and forth shortening up the chain to rock it out.

Went to the other side of the field with the freed combine, drove 1/4 round back, and dropped in the mud again on that side. Had to rock myself out with a tractor and chain again, back and forth between the 2 machines inching out.

Went and sat in the house for a spell after that, had enough...

Those are the 2 that stick out for me.

Paul
 
I've been in some really bad messes, even on the edge of tipping over, but never been stuck with backhoe that I couldn't get out using the hoe.
 
was horsing around unloading this horse manure it slipped a little and i mashed the brake and just let it spin it it looked like this then unloaded and it came right out
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Got my 45/313 combine stuck in a 'soft spot'.Tore the transmission out,got the 1256 stuck trying to 'extract' the 45.Then almost got the second tractor stuck getting the '12' out.The 45 then got frozen in,stayed there for 5 months.....
 
I threw a load of firewood onto my 2WD SuperDuty over on the North end of the field. I had done this several times over the Winter, but this day, it had warmed up, and what had been firm, frozen ground was now slick mud. I eased the clutch out and quickly sank to the rear axle.

After a few "I told you so"s. from my brother and a few "what were you thinking's from Dad, we tried to get it out. Dad was on the 9N, my brother was in his 318 4WD Dakota and a buddy was on a Cat skid steer pushing. 24 cylinders and 12 drive wheels couldn't budge it. We figured it'd be there 'til Spring or maybe Summer.

Then a few days later, I had another idea. We scrounged around for every link of chain on the farm plus a 100 foot nylon rope. My brother put his Dakota up on the gravel road and gave her $#@%, and didn't back off the throttle 'til I was also up on the road.
 
Not a tractor but I got my old Insley dragline stuck in the swamp once. Had both cables hooked to big trees pulling for all it was worth and my step dad on the Cat 955H to boot.
It came out pretty easy then but you can bet I didn't go in that deep again.
 
We had a very wet spring and one neighbor got his planter stuck and I found it hard to believe but two large wrecker worked for several hours and charged $8000 to remove it.We had a combine have a bridge partially collapse and the crane cost $5000.My friend has a construction business and He has rescuced many large sprayers.
 
Mostly get stuck plowing snow or mowing. I took on a new mowing job in, I think, 2002. Anyway it was a very dry year, and I had no trouble mowing it all over, driving anywhere I wanted to. The next year I made one and a half rounds, and sunk my Farmall C almost to the axles. When we came back with the M and a LOOONG chain, there was a big frog sitting on the mower. I took that as a sign to stay away from that area.
 
the worst had to be with a ford 2000 industrial, with a loader, was going to fix a ditch where a critter had dug a burrow and let the water go where it wasnt wanted, the ford hit the mud and sunk to the oil pan , got the mm jetstar 3 out and hooked it up to pull it back out all that did was stand the jetstar nearly straight up, never again! 9 hours of jacking and timbers later i got it out, [ the loader would just sink also, so it could not be used to lift the tractor up and onto timbers, that would have been too easy
 
Back in the 90's when I lived in Wi. among the Mennonites, they used to play a lot of hockey in the winter time. The boys decided it would be easier to push the snow off the ice with their dads big Caterpillar. Luckily they didn't get to far from shore, the water only got to the bottom of the engine. It took most of the day and a BIG track hoe to get it back out.
 
I have some big homemade berms-dirt mounds.
even when it looks dry, the ground near them is not
from their runoff. clay
Got a small tractor hung up, brought my 4wd loader tractor
to pull it out. when I got within 20 feet of it, had that bad
feeling of the Earth is not under my tires anymore...
sinking, HST tranny, hit reverse pedal and hammered it, also using
the loaders curl to push backwards. just made it.
Used a looong chain to pull out the stuck one.

most annoying stuck.....every winter plowing deep snow, and pushing it up the snowbank.
Not paying attention, or timing the plow lift wrong, and dropping the blade over the tip of the snowbank.......Done right there!
 
Yes this was me. Nothing showed on the surface. But when it went down it went down. BIG tow truck and it just verily got it out.
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The Amish were logging off my woods. I went to the woods with my WD to get some slabs. I got crosswise of some ruts and got stuck. Had to get the Amish man with his team of horses to pull me out. I wonder what he was thinking.
 
I took the JD G w/loader out one spring to remove a rock. G went down. Brother came with 400 Case; it went down. Then we got the D4; it went down. Then the HD7 went down.

The next day we go the neighbor with his machinery trailer to winch them out one-by-one.
 
Discing in spring with the Oliver 1800, duals on, I kept making passes next to a damp spot, finally figured I would try to blast through and see what happened ! What happened was it went down faster than I could even hit the clutch. Worst part was I had to leave it sit there for a couple weeks til it dried enough to get it out, and it was right next to the highway, so EVERYONE I know got to see it and give me grief over it ! lol
 
For me it was with a Bolens Garden Tractor that has a home built FEL on it.

When I brought it home, I backed it off the trailer, pulled around to the side yard, and it just stopped with the tires spinning on top of the grass.

It had been raining a lot, and the ground was so saturated that it would squish like a wet sponge when I walked on it. Bear in mind that I'm a light weight at about 160 lbs.

Anyway it had unloaded turf tires, no counter weight, and worst of all, the guy that built the FEL used single action lift cylinders so I couldn't even use the FEL to help get out.

I was wanting to replace the rear tires anyway, so I got a pair of nice aggressive ATV tires, had them filled with Rim Guard (110 lbs. in each), put them on, and it walked out like it was on dry ground.

Here's pics of it stuck, unstuck, and a good pic of the tread on the ATV tires.
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not the worst JUST the one that sticks in my mind
was baleing hay at granpa's place grandpa was driving Oliver 1650, International 46 baler I was on the wagon with my uncle. My uncle had cut and raked the hay right over a wet spot in a small field. Grandpa drove right out in that wet spot with my Uncle raising cain, hollering at him to go around it. Grandpa stopped the tractor, let the baler clean out and then tried to go forward, was not happening. Used the pickup to pull the wagon backwards 1st, then the baler backwards 2cd, then hooked on to the tractor which just went farther down. Took the pickup and went back to my Uncle's got an Oliver 66 then I drove the 66 back and pulled the 1650 out. I got to fill the holes back in the hayfield after the hay was baled. My uncle was so mad but couldn't say anything to his dad.Made a long day out of few loads of hay put up in grandpa's barn.
 
I've been stuck a lot of times over the years, mostly with manure spreaders that sink in stubble or plowed ground or some very wet years trying to chop silage... but the one that worried me the most was sinking a Cat D4 in a black bog while I was grubbing it down to hard pan. I was backing up onto the muck and pushing the muck and stumps forward and to the side... and decided to make one last push before I quit for the day. I got a stump hooked in the a frame hitch on the back and couldn't get off... with the dozer sinking. It was late in the year with some prospect of freezing down for the night... I was lucky enough to find enough dead wood around the chopping to crib under the tracks and jack the machine off with the blade. It wasn't a deep bog by any means and no real danger but I hate calling anyone to come in with a bigger machine to haul it out. I've never really worried about sticking anything else we own because the dozer can normally retrieve it... but didn't have anything at the time to retrieve the dozer. Now I worry about sticking a porter because I don't know if the dozer can remove that... and I really rather not find out.

Worst tractor mess we ever had... my brother bogged a NewHolland TS90 with a 4 bottom mounted plow. The tractor was hung on it's drawbar housing... on a rock... with the plow in the ground and fully raised. It required 3 tractors and over 150 feet of chain and cable to remove. We broke every chain we owned before that came loose.

Rod
 
Neighbor was disking with a White 2-135 and a big disk in some ground that hadn't been farmed in several years. He drove over an old disk left in the weeds by a previous owner and dropped the front wheels between the gangs. We buried a Farmall 806 and a Farmall 560 trying to pull it our. Finally took a torch and cut the old disk in four pieces and pulled them out with a backhoe, then pulled everything else out, one at a time, with a backhoe and about 200' of cable. I haven't been that tired of hauling chain since, and that was 30 years ago.
 
About 40 years ago a friend got stuck with a ford mayor with front wheel assist and backhoe on the rear in a wet sandpit
I tried to pull him out with his fendt tractor,..no go, then an other fella showed up with a wheel loader and we hooked a chain to the fendt and tried with both tractors pulling,..only to see the wheel loader depart with the front half of the fendt,.it broke off halfway the bell housing.lol.
 
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