dude with the recovery truck is lucky he didn't get injured or killed. Guy who got that thing stuck should have had to shovel all the mud out from in front of it.
Easy, just run it into a muddy area with thin roots or low hanging branches and it'll be stuck pretty quickly. The thinner roots are like wire just made for getting stuck in the drums and chaindrive in the back, saw some pictures once of one that had almost pulled a tree down on top of itself. A Vityas DT-30 though ... that might take some work. It's fully amphibious and good at headbutting trees. :)
@Simon Barth i think so, the winch was pulling the plow sideways so the pressure would have been built up on one side, and lessened on the other. So it had to go somewhere...
Quad Tracks are notoriously difficult to pull because the tread is angled upwards so the bogey won't tilt forward. Even under power when they have no traction they offer huge resistance and must be literally dragged on their "feet" pushing and dragging tons of muck along the way. One of that size and bulk buried that deep... little choice but to lift it to give tractors a chance.
I would have to say no matter the brand or what you have for a tractor, if you find a sinkhole and your riding weight is heavy, your going to sink no matter what, it just isn't going to be a good day, i have seen even skidders that were meant to be in marshy areas sink to ag lime spreaders go down and get stuck. just physics and murphy's laws.
Would have a dual tire tractor gotten better traction? It just seems as if the lugs on the tracks are small and filled. Or metal dozer type tracks? At any rate that's one stuck machine.
because it's a nice flexible machine, once you're done you can take the blade off and put a plow at the back of it. Also, it's a bit faster than most dozer, which makes it good at light blade work such as spreading sand or plowing snow - It can do that faster than pretty much any dozer. So there's many different reasons for it ... besides, if you already had a quadtrack, why would you buy a dozer instead of just a blade for the quadtrack ? I'm sure that economics does play a big role.
Or dig a ramp out front of it. They were pushing waaaay too much mud & crud ahead and underneath! Looks like the strain on the blade broke some hydraulic hoses too!
it really hurts to see a new tractor smoke blue like that.. like an old fordson major or an old fergusson... :/ i wonder how they treat their equipment.. i wouldnt like to have those working with my mashines.
The best way to pull that tractor out is to pull it at a sharp angle. It means your not pulling the full weight of the tractor. You would have it out in no time.
just dig the mud out in front of it and in between the tracks and hook strait horse power to the front of it. You guys need bigger chains and cables to deal with this kind of stuff not to deal with small trucks such as semis
If they had hooked up the John Deere to the stuck Case, and then the tow truck to the Deere, they could have used the power of the Deere to help pull, instead of just using it as an anchor for the tow truck.....could have been out in half the time.
sometimes it may be hard ground on the top but as you work on it pushing it brings the water to the top .you only have to get stuck a little bit at first and buy the time you have tried to get out it's to late the sucktion has got a hold of you. it's ok all you lot saying how did it happen it can and dose to the best of people
No, not to the best of people. These people are quite far from being the best, in fact if breathing involved any level of thinking, they would all expire immediately.
The 360 machine driver wasn't much help until late in the recovery. He surely could have cleared a track around the front of the stuck machine instead of being a spectator.
Nope. I had a 9400T ran it for 5600 hrs. They don't cut it in wet conditions. I had to swallow my words about quadtracks, and buy one. They are far superior.
I am assuming the idiot was the guy who tried to drive it out after he was already stuck (probably the same guy who got it stuck in first place). We farm a lot of treacherous spots and normally when you get in trouble we try very gently to back out if possible and don't dig it down. One tractor is almost always enough to get you out if you don't go in too far and for Christs sake don't dig it down until you can't see the tractor!
