Stuck destruction

num hutz · Nov 23, 2008

Sitting here does anyone have a horror story about the damage done to a tractor or other piece of equip.while pulling it out of the mud ?

Anonymous-0 · Nov 23, 2008

Depends how deep the mud was num-nuts

rrlund · Nov 23, 2008

Not personally. But there was an old mechanic here that had worked for a few dealerships. He had gone out on his own and worked out of his own shop. Now keep in mind this was a good 30 years ago,so keep in mind what the dollar was worth back then. He had a good sized Massey Ferguson in the shop with the rear end blown to pieces. A guy had loaded a truck out of a grain bin and couldn't get it out. They hooked the Massey to it and all it would do was rare up. So they hooked another tractor to the front of it,rared the Massey up again and tried to pull it down to kind of catapult the truck out. Blew that rearend ALL to pieces. He said he'd been calling salvage yards and so far he was up to $1800 in parts alone. By the way,he said they got a wrecker out to pull the truck out. Cost them $35.

Walt Davies · Nov 23, 2008

there are several tractor in delta region in California where the peat moss is 1500 ft. deep. Once you brake though the crust it by, by baby.

When I was about 15 I was building a fence for my grand father a cat man was building some roads for him near where I was. He ask me if he could park the D-8 on the ground just inside where I was working, I told him it was pure mud and water under the hard crust. He went out jumped up and down on it and said I think it hold Ok. Famous last words as the tracks broke though and left him spinning in the water. Sometimes it does pay to listen to a KID.
Walt

Bill(Wis) · Nov 23, 2008

There was a picture in stuck and troubled about two years ago of a pretty new and pretty big ($$$$$) John Deere that pulled apart trying to pull it out. The tractor actually ended up in two pieces. I got a big kick out of it because most commentors said they should have been pulling on the drawbar, not the front end. I wonder what they were using that pulled it apart?

thurlow · Nov 23, 2008

I've pulled a bunch of folks out; neighbors with stuck equipment, folks who failed to negotiate a bend on the road, etc. I always ask, "Do you want it out all in one piece, or just whatever comes out?" Have gotten some strange looks as they contemplate what I'm asking. I ALWAYS insist that they do the hooking on to their vehicle

Rusty wheel · Nov 23, 2008

Back in the 70s a farmer out around Sunbury or Centerberg Ohio got his new combine stuck. Tried to pull it out and pulled the frame into. Went down to the barn and shot himself. rw

fixerupper · Nov 23, 2008

Back in the middle seventies I saw an Allis 180 or 190 that was pulled in two by a wrecker trying to get it out of the mud. It sat there in two pieces at the dealership for awhile before they put it back together. A while later one of the mechanics said they were still working out the bugs. Jim

big hunter · Nov 23, 2008

years ago one of my friends worked for the farm up the road...he was driving the tractor down the road, came to the railroad crossing and tried to beat the train...he didn't make it...he jumped off the tractor, the tractor was in pieces when it was over.

rednekelmo · Nov 23, 2008

well now that sheds some light on some of the things dad and my uncles said back then when we had a wet fall.

RobMD · Nov 23, 2008

did he reallY?

RobMD · Nov 23, 2008

Theres a funny fellow named roscoe on there that says if there isn't any mud on the tires, then its not stuck yet.

num hutz · Nov 23, 2008

num hutz

Anonymous-0 · Nov 23, 2008

a man told me he was doing work building a road from the stone road across the marsh to the woods for a home site one night he thought he would drive it up close to the road and park it as the story goes as he came back the next day and it had sank till just the stack was sticking up and by the end of the day it was gone by by

paul · Nov 23, 2008

Same happened in Iowa, was a stuck 4wd JD back when those were rare & new. Bent the frame on pulling it out, and I think the ecconomy was not going well to start for him.....

--->Paul

Goose · Nov 23, 2008

Back when WD Allises, Massey 44's, etc. were everyone's main tractor, a neighbor I'll call "Farmer A" got a combine stuck. He rounded up about four neighbors to help him pull it out.

The plan was, Farmer A would hook his own tractor to the combine, the other four would hook onto the front of his tractor, they would all dig out at once, and pull the combine out. Things went as planned until they all dug out. Farmer A forgot his tractor was in "reverse". When they all took off, Farmer A was pulling backwards against the other four tractors, and they then had a combine plus five tractors stuck.

By the time they got everything pulled out, including the combine, the only thing damaged was Farmer A's ego from all the insults heaped on him.

No, I was not Farmer A.

I did ponder on where the term, "Chinese Fire Drill" came from.

dave guest · Nov 23, 2008

Had a feller bring me some gravel. Nice shiny truck with cover over top. I said can you spread it a little. He took off with that truck tail gate did not open far enough and truck was standing up on the rear end of that Ford yelling and hollering loudern' you would believe. He wanted me to climb up with chain and pull him down with tractor. I said maybe not. Went and got my under warranty f350 and give him little tug. Later that day he got the dump stuck in the up position. I told him I think I have enought gravel for now. He was shook up but safe and lucky.

Dozer Guy · Nov 24, 2008

I had a woman that came to our property to cut firewood, she showed up one time to get some wood that she had cut up 2 weeks earlier but the ground was still wet from a rain we had a few days before... I told her " DO NOT GET OFF THE PATH" that was packed hard ! Well, she got off the path and got stuck.. Her male friend came with his NEW diesel 4x4 1 ton and I told him the same, he sunk it to the doors.. man was he HOT.. He asked me to take him to get one of his tractors and I did... A big JD with duel wheels came here and got bogged down as well.... Again he asked me to take him to get one more tractor, I told him "I will but I will need some " ground dammage money" to fix the mess that you are gonna leave me with !!! He agreed and I took him to his farm to get the biggest JD 4wd with 8 wheels I have ever seen ... It got everything out and I asked him to cut me a check for the dammage ..... Well , I guess he thought it was time I got stuck... Havent seen them or a check since.. But I did get to see a great show from my warm, dry lil truck on a hard packed road .... They should have listened to me.... Larry

John in Ct · Nov 24, 2008

My father got his C-70 stuck while building a road many years ago. A guy wanted to help him , so he hooked the chain around the front axle and TIE ROD. My father wasn't too happy!

Stuck destruction

num hutz

Member

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

rrlund

Well-known Member

Walt Davies

Well-known Member

Bill(Wis)

Well-known Member

thurlow

Well-known Member

Rusty wheel

Well-known Member

fixerupper

Well-known Member

big hunter

Member

rednekelmo

Member

RobMD

Well-known Member

RobMD

Well-known Member

num hutz

Member

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

paul

Well-known Member

Goose

Well-known Member

dave guest

Well-known Member

Dozer Guy

Member

John in Ct

Member

Similar threads