Loader Got Stuck in the Woods. Lets Slice Up the Tires! 

Matt, I can’t thank you enough for your channel. My 4yo has watched this video maybe 100 times. He’s fascinated by big construction vehicles and he loves your videos. Thank you for making family friendly, awesome content!!

I run a loader and one tip is I'd rotate your 2 best tires to the front. Having that front tire blowout with 2 ton in your bucket 15 feet off the ground wouldn't be ideal. Especially over the box of a truck

I worked for a man years ago, that used a chainsaw to regroove his tires. He had a simple deal that clamped on the tip of the bar to set depth. It removed the rubber quite fast, and it was my job to scoop up all the rubber and spread it on the driveway in front of the shop. Take care Matt.

Matt, tyre regrooving is comparatively straight forward. The reason you were bending blades was trying to do double cuts. All the blade needs to be in the rubber otherwise it overheats and bends or breaks. To recut earthmover tyres set your cut width as wide as you can, cut the two sides of the required tread then remove the middle with a sharp wood chisel, heated if necessary with a blowlamp/glass torch..

One of the most important skills with a stuck machine is knowing when to stop trying to drive it out!

A set of chains is a game changer for wheel loaders in muddy conditions. Every drilling rig I worked on had a loader, and we always ran chains. Even in mud up to your knees, we always got traction. Some times it was the only thing keeping the heavy trucks moving around the place.

Greetings from Australia. Those regrooving tools are great for extracting a few more miles out of truck tyres for on-road use, but your problem with slippery surfaces is better addressed with tyre chains, usually seen on quarry loaders. Bet your shoulder ached after 10 hours pushing that thing, as mine did after 11 truck tyres in one session. Cheers and keep up the interesting content.

Matt, who would question a man of integrity like you? You have proven yourself in video after video! Keep the great vids coming!

A set of tire chains are priceless on a loader working in mud!

Been cutting tires for quite some time here. Depending on the tread plies of the tire some cords showing isn’t a big deal. They are 20 ply tires you’d still have 19 more sets of cords to go. We ran a set till there was 8 layers of cords showing. You’d be amazed how much traction you can add with a hot knife.

Ahh, I still can't help but believe those new grooves you cut in still helped you out the way you finally came. After you spin that right rear tire in the mud, looks like somethin' Dimi Moore and Patrick Swazye was makin' on the clay wheel in the movie Ghost! LOL (that's where you shoulda overlayed some sexy music LOL).

Looks like you did an amazing job on the winch cable as well as the tires. Jack of all trades Matt. “Let’s see if I can get us out of this predicament” - Carves a new road through woods. 🤣

I spent many days recutting tyres, mostly on trucks in the late 70s early 80s... hated every minuet. You found out the hard way, pushing too hard/fast will kill the blade and overheating (letting the blade get hot when not cutting was the most common problem, that is why your modern machine has that push to heat switch built in. You are cutting a lot (at first) and expecting a lot from the blade. We were mostly cutting a 1/4 to 3/8th deep and not much wider with each pass. It is the heat that cuts, so a steady pace and even pressure is the key. But having done several hours now you are a graduate of the novice academy. Keep an eye for good secondhand tyres... people tend to run them into the ground but big companies sometimes forget the value of the rubber on machines that no longer work for them. Like you said you could pick up a whole machine for the cost of 4 new tyres... you are in a great situation to part one out and weigh in what you don't need.

“Tires slicker than a used car salesman!” I love it man, I love it. Grooving the tires definitely cheaper than new tires. To me there is never a good place to run out of fuel.🙄 thanks the ride along young man.

I'm actually kind of surprised that a big old wheel loader like that doesn't have locked (or locking) differentials like a skid steer.

You’ve added what my two brothers and I have always called “gription”. We started using that term way back in the early 60’s when we were kids talking about new bike tires. As far as we know, we invented the word. Love your videos, and your can-do attitude. Like Adam Savage says, “Failure is always an option”. But, you don’t let that hold you back from trying something new. Thanks for reminding me of “gription” and fond memories of childhood times way back when!

Good opportunity to respool the winch line and get some tension on it!

Use your brakes gently to transfer power on the other side of the open differential. It can save you some time and work.

Thank you for all the camera angles you do and taking the time to set them up, this video looks like it took a bit of walking back to the cameras!

Matt you're a life saver... with the price of Tires for my old Terex 72-71 wheel loader around $3000 I've been eyeing them tire tredding tools. Gonna pick one up after seeing how well it dod for you! Take care buddy, and god Bless!

As someone that spent years in towing and heavy recovery I can tell you a tidy winch drum is a must ! There’s nothing worst that trying to run out a messy winch cable. Also used to regroove semi tires and although it saved money I hated doing it. It’s so time consuming and frustrating lol. I’m glad it was you doing tires that size and not me lol.

Good morning Matt, I think that you did a real good job regrooving the tires. One thing about you is that you definitely are not afraid to jump in and try something that you have not done before. Oh congrats on the new subscribers, I see that you have gained more than 11,000 in the last 30 days! WOO HOO! Thanks for taking us along and most definitely thumbs UP! 👍

Dad used to re-groove his semi tractor and trailer tires. In the 50's thru the early 80's He had a cheaper non temprature justable groover, Then he got an adjustable one that yours is a knock off of. Rilfit was the name brand. German built if I remember correctly. I have it now. Truck and tractor pullers use them. We also grind tires. Everything done with tires is dirty and hateful work. The blades work best if the whole blade is buried in the rubber. That is why you fried that first blade. Been there, done that! Another poster mentioned keeping the edge sharp. Excellent idea. I haven't paid attention to that before. I will now!

Great job rewinding the winch cable!! I've got over 15 years in the towing and recovery business up in the Northeast , I've retrained many many winch lines in much worse shape than that one by doing exactly what you did! You have to really overload the cable before they break, even then it will only happen where it's had a bad 90 deg kink or worse. One quick tip, if you don't have enough land space to roll the cable out completely, doubling back the line with a snatch block (pulley) will allow you to do it in half the space! Great video as always!

If you use some rubber cement with those tire plugs it makes them go in a lot easier and actually helps them seal better in the long run

Here's a tip I learned from an old timer back in the day, when you're plugging a tire, use some rubber cement on the plug, it will lube it up some, seals the hole really well and I have yet to have a plug leak using this method. I even plugged a motorcycle tire as an emergency side of the road repair and ended up running that tire until I had to replace it from wearing out.

I know I am just a country boy but make a log deck over that crap hole you have been wallowing in. So instead of driving down into it stay above the muck, you may need to have two or three levels of logs to get the height to stay above the muck. It is a common thing we used to do readily due to water logged areas. If we got stuck more than once or twice going thru an area like you have been getting stuck, we would bite the bullet and pull out the saws and get logs and making sure they are long enough to stretch out beyond the pathway so you would not slide off. Try to get it as level with the outbound and inbound edges of the dip. If this is to be permanent you might want to tied them together at the edges using substantial ropes making a sort of raft of the top layer across what you have built up. Living in hill country this got to be a regular fix for wet areas that were unpassable at times.

Your sped-up recording makes that tire-tread carving look so easy. Matt. You got that knack pretty well. Glad that your 'dozer cab has a strong rear screen, just in case that winch cable snaps under load.

If I can remember (last used one in 1979) if you start from the centre of the tyre and cut to the outside the cutter will last longer due to switching off as soon as you exit the rubber on the outside. When you go from the outside in towards the centre, you tend to burn the cutter as you try to get the cutter to come out of the rubber. Or go right across the tyre like you did and exit in a open groove so that the power switches off as you come out of the rubber. You need all round diff lock and all wheels driving to get out of the ditch.

Nice job Matt Your equipment, your property, time and money = do it however YOU want to in my book And those of us who have been here a while no you don't do click bait And those who don't should have got here sooner

OMG! Just when I thought you were getting a good run at the hill you threw the brakes on! Regardless of that tho, With all the equipment you have, I can't believe you haven't put a few culvert pipes in to keep things like this from happening.

Myself I sometimes run a 1937 model Lanz Bulldog without threads left in the tyres on wet grass, and the one time I tried this without chains was quite interesting, to say the least. Chains are more helpful than prayers!

New treads look great. Shame the machine has open diffs, though! Thnx for the video :-)

Regrooving is a great way to extend the life of tires. Many heavy truck on hyway tires are regroovable, so you will be able to use the cutter for that also. Just be sure to follow the manufacturers approved regooving patterns and depths and widths.

It was cool that the loader lined up as you did go on the path, it was like somebody sitter there inside and steered.

I always wondered how and why pieces of big equipment could wind up so far off the beaten path and just left there, and then start up relatively easy 20 yrs later in a "Will it start" video. I think you've shown the answer. Gets stuck, kind of waller'd back off the trail, owner is tired for the day and figures they'll come back to it later, maybe tomorrow (or whenever its needed), coupled with the thought of the greatest security ever (since its not moving without help). And then the machine isn't needed or its replaced and there she sits for yrs.

2 minutes up, 100 views and 10+ comments, Matt, you sir are doing something right! Cheers from Tokyo!

You have an amazing amount of God-given patience. Stay with it Matt!

I have a 1986 Case W20B loader. I live on the U.S./CA boarder at 4,000' a little over a mile and a half from the paved county road. I have to move a lot of snow in the winter. I have chains on all for corners. Summers are short, so I just leave the chains on all year round. I have no traction problems.

Love how you will give anything a try. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Not comes to mind when I see you tackle just about any task that you’re not familiar with. Gives the rest of us inspiration to try new things. As always, enjoying your videos. Peace

Matt an idea for Homemade blades for the tyre groover You know the metal strips used to tie machinery to pallets or secure boxes shut? Possibly some of that cut into the lengths and widths needed would work? I used a simular machine 40+, years ago to cut grooves into sprint car tyres at the place I worked at back then. Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺

Took me back 55 years to one of my first jobs as an apprentice mechanic. Cutting treads in heavy goods vehicle road tyres. It took a while to perfect the zigzag pattern needed. Surprised the tool didn’t have a way to keep,it permanently hot

Mr Stoic does a victory lap? That was great. Perseverance pays off again.

Good stuff there brother.. ive tried re-grooving a set of 37" BFGs on my truck with my plunge router haha lol.. Got me through Pa's inspection for another year... I got a set of tires on an old rear steer backhoe loader down at the farm i might be willing to horse trade with.. Will check the size next time in down there... Still got the nips on them..

Knowing how stingy and lazy I am, I would probably have used one those wood routers to carve new treads. 🤣

Great video Matt. you know as well as i that you can let a little air out of them to help flatten them out so they get more ground to grab, and before i would but new tires, i would look around in old junk yards and tires yards for some that are not to bad to use. and re-groove them. you might even get them free. Just a thought. take care Matt.

As a summer boy in the middle 60s, I was taught to do this with a spokeshave -shaped tool holder. Worked in a GOODYEAR dealer shop where we also did bus tyre re-caps. The machine I was trained on had cutters about 1/2 to 3/4" wide, and had a heat-on toggle switch.

judging by the Mud the loader was throwing .. i think you did a pretty good job cutting new treads

As a part time farmer who works alone most of the time, I will always believe that you are stuck. It’s always sucks pulling a machine out by yourself that you got stuck. There goes 2 hours. Haha. Great video.

Turn the heat up some and push a bit less hard. It's still a slow process and the blades don't last long when pushed hard while hot. For the rusty spots on your equipment, Rustoleum makes a rust converting primer that stops rusting quite well. I buy it in rattle cans and hit the rust spots with it. Flaky rust should be wire brushed, but the remaining rusty areas will stop rusting after this converts the rust into a stable primer. If you try to scrape it off, you will find that the metal now has a hard black surface. This primer is available in larger non spray cans too.

I would died of heart attack if I were cutting this big ass tires under pressure and something just randomly exploded behind me. Big wow for your calmness right there.

Hey Matt. The way my uncle did it was he bought a couple of those wheels for an angle grinder that have chainsaw chain ran around them. You gotta use the CARBIDE TOOTH FIREFIGHTING CHAIN. Stihl makes it for the rescue saw. Cut through nails and roofing shingles like butter. Anyway, he would "hog," the bulk out with those and then finish with the hot knife if necessary. Worked great and was faster. A good quick pressure wash of the tires extended cutter life. And when he needed to replace the chain he took the wheels to the local saw shop where they sell chain by the foot and have the pin press to break and make chain. They'd replace them reasonably. It ain't cheap chain and in fact they didn't carry it because it's rarely asked for. They ordered a whole spool of it which he didn't pay for, just because he requested it. Then started selling out because folks wanted carbide chains for their saws! Oh and you cant use any old harbor freight grinder, the grinder better have some balls. He put his wheels on a grinder made for 6in wheels. You want to HOG not bog.

Retired laborer with 31 years in the field never knew you could this…… as always assume video looking forward to the shop build!!!!!!

I got to say that having a winch on the back.Here, dozer can come in real handy.When you need it you might not have to use it very often but all of the only takes is once

Allis went to play in the woods after a rainy day, but her shoes were slick to do the trick so she had to sit and stay. Then came a friend who wouldn't give in that pulled her out with ease, and when went back into the woods a different track was able to do as she pleased...🚜

+ good job knowing when to quit wasting energy trying to get unstuck. I would dump lots of used motor oil on the cable to soften it up, probably making it last a little longer because new cables aren't cheap. stay safe have fun

The music for the tire cutting was spot on an in the last when you were running down the gravel they looked like new tires. Next project an bridge for Fat Alice? Keep making my favorite channel an have a great day.

The blocks need sips for extra traction, just like winter tires have.

I can't thank you enough for the effort that you put into your videos Matt. Always great camera shots along with great info. Please keep the videos coming.👷

If you are going to always use that loader in the woods, price a locking diff for the rear or at least modulate your brakes to transfer power to the other wheels.

Matt if you fill take a torch and heat the rubber up a bit on the lug your cutting will speed the cutting time up and will save the blade life and make it easier on you

I'm convinced you are the only person that can get a light plant to power anything more than the lights

I couldn't stand the sight of you handling this steel rope with your bare hands. I tried that once and ended up with several small cuts in just a few seconds. Those things can be spiky and sharp as hell :)

In my opinion, a20 ft. section of drainage, 4-5 loads of rock would be cheaper than 4 new tires.

Your positive attitude and willingness to see things through is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Matt, A friend of mine worked at a tire shop for many years and I watched him regroove so many tires for all types of use, what he used as blades for the gun was cut down strips of Band -it 304 stainless strap sharpened on one side on a bench grinder it coped well with the pressure and heat and as I used to recertify fire hoses I had to cut the old strap off to re-clamp the ends on the hose meaning his blade material was recycled and free.

Anything you can do that extends the life of your gear without a massive expense is worth it. Them 8-10 hours you spent, I think, were well worth it. I remember working at a place and their loader had chains on the wheels during the winter / wet months.

It definitely helped Matt. I did the same to a pair of hard sole hunting boots, with a router, back when I didn't have enough money to buy a new pair. It worked well.

There's nothing quite like getting stuck when you're on your own and having to get creative to get yourself out. Good job.

That's my motto. If you get stuck on one road, make another!

Other cheap off-road option improving traction would be welded diffs ;)

Dang Matt, I was planning on going right to bed this morning, but now I gotta catch some diesel creek first!

My 2WD tractor has turf tires which is perfect for what I originally purchased it for. But if I try running the bush hog in thru the soup, I get to winch it out. You have the equipment and knowledge to get yourself out of just about any situation you get yourself into and we certainly appreciate that you take us along to see how you do it!

we should have a matt appreciation day ever year. the money this man has saved me in my life time i havent had yet is pretty special 😂

Awesome video, I never knew you could retread tires. Thank you for sharing

Actually, it was the added weight of the can of fuel that got you out! 😂 Some experience cutting tires for rally cars in the 1980s. You might have had better luck cutting new horizontal grooves in the tread blocks, not the valleys.

Way 2 go Matt!! Stretch those dollars as far as you can cause you just never know when the old tractor will just up and die a sudden death... Good job

Matt, l’m always impressed with your skills (left handed). In my experience l have seen lefties accomplish greater things than righties. Your verbiage & forthought are impressive. Your skill level is very good for the type of profession you have chosen. I love watching your ViDEOS!!!

You make that antique dozer hum like a modern, lazer controlled dozer. Great job.

Hey Matt, ever thought of that auction you go and wondering if they have tires to auction it off?

Matt, you are one tough cookie. I’d love to be like you. Keep on fighting the good fight, bringing to life what others would call old and useless. I look forward to your next video.

18:39 I feared for your life for a second when that random klunk happened.

The next time your tires are spinning , try tapping your brake pedal quickly and lightly. This will sometimes transfer power to a stationary wheel even with an open differential It doesn't always work but it might get you out of a pickle.

Thanks for including us in the work you do Matt. I always look forward to all your videos. I have never cut tire treads either but I have seen it done, I think you did great for a first time. Now Fat Allis looks like it belongs with your fleet and not like a junkyard dog. :)

Matt, that was probably 8-10 hours time well invested to extend the number of hours you be able to use Fat-Allis before hitting the massive expense of buying a new tyre or tyres. A job well job. You must have been knackered spending that time in the sun cutting tyres.

Phil Lukon is The best tire prep guy.

That compactor did a bloody great job on the driveway.

back when it was legal my dad use to wholesale used grooved and ungrooved tires. I can't tell you how many thousands I've done over the years. honestly you have one of the best setups I've seen minus a few things. those blades are more durable the sharper you keep them. they usually come with a file kit, I strongly recommend you go to a new used Tire dealer shop. ask them when their Tire repair Supply and Tool truck comes through. they tend to have the best quality for the price replacement blades files and other accessories associated with tires. but I'm sure you can find something to get you through online. overheating the blade or running it with a factory Edge without sharpening is your biggest enemy. you definitely don't want to have your arm hand on the opposite side I've been branded a few times and it's no fun those scars last a lifetime

My suggestion is, that if you intend on mud hogging through the woods, you should invest in a set of tire chains or just stay out of the mud. When are we gonna see some footage of the workshop going up. Construction should be underway by now.

The company I use to work for had a John Deere 544 on skidded tires with a upgraded turbo and over size Injectors. It was our little swamp toy.

Matt, It is always a treat to see what side of the shade tree you are going use this time. Somewhere in my tools I have a reciprocating tool with u shaped chisels but no heat. I used it on a couple of turf tires and like your setup, a little experimenting helped. I also used it to carve some address signs. I used some redwood boards and then switched to green treated lumber.

BTW, to help prolong the life of your wire ropes, keep them soaked in oil, used motor oil or bar & chain oil will work fine to help prevent internal wear and corrosion.

When you get wheel slippage like that...very light brake pressure can help put tension on the spinning wheels and make the other ones rotate, learned that in the Marines driving tactical vehicles Not to insult your intelligence of course

That is what I love about backhoes. You can't get them stuck. You can crab walk out.

Good video, was a good opportunity to square away that winch line, only thing I would add is dump a little used motor oil on the cable from time to time. If a used set of tire chains the right size come along cheap you might want to buy them, looks like you could use them for a few months every year. I haven't had to use a tire grooving tool for many years "Good Times"

Matt, you always have a solution for everything. I didn't even know you could fix tire tread like that. Thanks for the video!

The biggest thing with those tyre regroovers is keeping the blade cool. My old boss had one with a trigger and if you pulled the trigger and it wasn't touching the tyre it would melt the blade in less than 3 seconds. You have to be cutting with the whole blade full depth and then they last forever. My boss could groove a full set of truck tyres on 1 blade in not time. It would take me half an hour and 2 blades to do 1 tyre!

With the amount of rain you’ve been getting that’s no surprise lol! Thanks for your hard work and looking forward to seeing the new shop and more videos on the Orange Auto Car

honestly after you did all of that it look like it drove like a brand new set of tires and rig! im super surprised!

From one try it for the first time guy to another. Well done Matt! It’s always fun learning something new.