they can get stuck

larry@stinescorner · Jan 22, 2017

A friend of mine has a track loader on his property.He called me tonight around 4 .30,For some reason he was digging with it today,,in a very low spot,,on a very wet weekend.He got it stuck,,really bad,,in a hard to get to spot.Just because it has tracks ,,it can get stuck,,He knows that now.

stevob671 · Jan 22, 2017

Yeah, anything can get stuck...it just depends on how far out they get before getting stuck!

old · Jan 22, 2017

I'd have more then one dozier stuck more then once. Got my TD-^ stuck one time and tried to pull it out with the Diamond-T which did not work so I started adding more machines and did not get it out that way. Ended up chaining a piece of mobile home I-Beam to the tracks and that did the trick but I never have found that piece of I-beam. Tried to pull it back out but the chains broke

Stephen Newell · Jan 22, 2017

I got one stuck digging a pond on my place and it was bone dry. It had ripping claws on the back which didn't lift up too high and when I went down the claws hung on the bank and I could neither go forward or backwards. I ended up having to get a wrecker to wench it out.

jeffcat · Jan 22, 2017

Go on U'tube and watch where the motor pool guys have one of those HUGE tank retrievers. They go fishing for an Abrams tank stuck right to the top in mud. Try fishing out over 60 tons of tank. Then watch the videos where in russia they pull German and russian tanks out of swamps, lakes, and rivers!

Yukon3639 · Jan 22, 2017

Best way to get them out is a small excavator.
The track lighter and can get close to the stuck crawler.
They key to success is to dig around the machine and release the suction caused by the mud.
Once it is clean and a runway is cut for the loader it won't need much help pulling. Rolling the bucket back for a little push should only be done if forward motion stops. Don't spin the tracks!!!

big tee · Jan 22, 2017

It happens more than you think.---Tee

Billy NY · Jan 22, 2017

Hopefully a smaller crawler loader, some of the larger ones get a bit heavy. With narrow double grouser type pads, and having non-oscillating track frames, it does not take much.
It is surprising in some conditions how quickly most any crawler can sink or just get stuck. It will be easier to get out if it can be dug around to relieve the suction+ you won't need as much force, which is always a nice thing when you are around the chain or wire rope tow lines/rigging etc.

farmerwithmutt · Jan 22, 2017

Hope you got a picture and put it in the stuck and troubled section.

sms · Jan 23, 2017

I got a call to dig a pond one time, made the deal went to get started. I had an audience, turned out the landowner had a guy working for him that had gotten two rented dozers stuck trying to dig this pond. This guy got a six pack and a lawn chair and said he was going to watch me get stuck. First thing I did was drop the corner of the blade and divert the little stream so I wasn't working in the water, that made him stand up from his chair and look, than I worked around the edges of the mudhole he had made. I didn't get stuck. It turned out he didn't divert the water and the one machine he got stuck was a track loader that he was driving in filling the bucket spinning a 180 in the mud and water churning it all up into a muddy mess instead of just backing out. The landowner also got fined for too much muddy water going down the stream, he had the proper permits. I finished the job with no problems.

showcrop · Jan 23, 2017

Young fella Old's method of chaining a beam to the tracks is the way to do it if you don't want to go through the major production of digging and towing. Many readers perhaps don't know how it is done. It also works using a log or pole, and it works on tractors too. You lay the log or pole or beam crosswise behind the machine up against the tires or tracks. You then pass a chain through the wheels between the rim and center. You then pass each chain around the pole and hook it onto itself. You then just back up and the rear of the machine will lift as it tries to pull the pole under. Warning!! Do not try to drive out forward, and if you need drama, call in big tow machines. This method is boring.

BhB · Jan 23, 2017

I was at a development where I was building houses, a man came to me and said I want to tell you don't take your equipment behind the house, it is all fill and I buried my dozer this weekend doing a finish grade, next door. I asked him how he got it out, he said I took your back hoe and dug around it. Being the weekend and no one working, he said he found one person a finish carpenter and asked him if he knew how to operate a dozer. He said no. He told him "well you are about to learn". With the carpenter on the dozer, he raked it out with the backhoe.

I was cleaning up an area that had been a pond and broke through the crust. I put a chain around a tree and attached the other end to the angle blade. I would move forward then take the slack out of the chain. It takes a long time to go 15 feet when you only move 3 to 4 inches at a time.

Dick2 · Jan 23, 2017

We got 3 wheel tractors and both of our crawler tractors stuck in the same location one wet spring. Had to get my friend with a winch on his equipment trailer to pull them out one-by-one. Getting a track machine stuck is fairly easy to do if you don't quit quick enough.

Richard G. · Jan 23, 2017

I was clearing for my fish pond back in 85 with a D2 Cat. Was pushing brush and vines and did not see the sinkhole under the vines. D2 went down to top of tracks. Loaded up a couple of loads of firewood and would use the down pressure of the blade to raise the front of the tracks and throw firewood under the tracks. Spin the firewood back and do it again till the dozer came up and walked out. Firewood is still buried in the middle of the pond.
Richard in NW SC

Donald Lehman · Jan 23, 2017

Ha! One of the first things we learned when we started selling Oliver's was that a when a 4wd tractor gets stuck, it's a whole LOT "stucker" than a stuck 2wd. Lol!!!!!

Being that I was a teenager at the time, it took me a bit longer to learn that lesson that some. (smile)

Larry EC-OH · Jan 23, 2017

Yep!
That's why Dad always said, Never buy a 4 X 4 truck, you'll have to walk twice as far to get help.....LOL

Larry

the tractor vet · Jan 23, 2017

h the fun your going to have getting a track loader out . To save a lot of fussen cussen , my best advice it to find someone with a dozer twice the size as the track loader that has a winch and snatch blocks . Then also take a chain saw and start cutting logs twice as wide as the pads on the loader . Over the younger years of working in the oil patch around here i became and expert on getting stuck equipment out of the mud . You have never lived till ya have to pull and Adico (sp) self drive drilling rig that weighed in at over 210000 lbs stuck in the mud five feet deep . Two 850 john Deere dozers with Hyster W7 F winches and a D7G with a W 7 F winch . Each winch had 70000 lbs of line pull and each one was double snatched blocked with 1 1/8 Blue wrap drill line . and seeing what happens when you break a inch and a eight cable . Now you did not say what size track loader ?? is it a 10000lb machine or is it a 50000 lb machine . If it was summer time then you MIGHT get a couple big wreckers close . If it is a small one you MIGHT be able to get a forty to fifty thousand pound excavator close and dig it and help pull it . Track loaders are not soft ground friendly , even LGP dozers have there limits . As it was once said a man has got to know his limits.

davpal · Jan 23, 2017

It sure does!

dpendzic · Jan 23, 2017

can't tell you how many times i got my track loader stuck---sometimes used the bucket to raise the front end and tracks up and throw logs under or get my other dozer and pull it out

Dave Westlund · Jan 23, 2017

Larry, I like than one...

big tee · Jan 23, 2017

davpal--You made the old 5010 look like a rookie. That pic was take probably 40 years ago. My wife was running it and it was the first year we farmed that farm. some one else had gotten stuck the year before and I told her to get close to it and level it out---she drove right in and there she sat. got 2 inches of rain that night. Went to pull it out and she had left the key on. We got it though---no one got hurt---Tee -------- Nice Bud

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