Always the last load of the day

[jon f mn]

Been raining for most of a week here, not a lot of rain but
drizzle all day stuff. Make delivery a joy sometimes. Last
Friday the last load two hours out an older lady wanted her
container, now. lol. I asked before I left if it was dry enough to
get it where she wanted. She said yes. This is what was
there.

She wanted it up there, but there was no pushing it up that hill
in the slick grass and mud.

She was not too happy I couldn't get it where she wanted but in the end understood.

Yesterday was this. Folks have a hard time understanding that just because they can drive on it with their mowers without sinking is not the same thing as a heavy truck. Told this guy I would leave ruts, he was ok with that.

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Since the wheels on the trailer move hydraulically I can use them to push me through the mud. Takes a long time tho. Spent 3 hours at yesterday's delivery by the time I got the container in place and pushed myself all the way off the lawn. I'll be glad when things dry up.

 

[SDE]

I called the golf course yesterday and was surprised to hear that the course was too wet to play. Not even for golfers like me who walk.

 

[paul]

Would a fella with a tractor be able to assist you, or is that against the rules/ insurance etc?

Paul

 

[dpendzic]

when i had my container delivered he got to the spot to slide it off but couldn't get out--had to take my tractor and pull him a ways

 

[jon f mn]

Yes, happens a lot. Has to be a big one or it won't help much. 100hp is about the minimum and then the conditions have to be favorable. Been pulled into many job sites with a D6 or similar.

 

[Bob M]

Helped a friend move his big 2 cyl Fairbanks-Morse diesel (about 18 tons with the skid) onto a stone pad last weekend. It had become stuck just short of the pad back in December. It then sat all winter.

Despite the dry ground on Saturday it was all our 150 hp MFWD tractor could do to pull it off the grass and onto the pad.

 

[paul]

I assumed it happens after the fact, but was curious if they allow it as part of the plan to begin with, good to know. Yea when all those wheels sink in a bit, it takes a good tigger to make things move again.

Paul

 

[Eldon (WA)]

They deliver them around here with a gn trailer and 4wd duallie...lot less weight to mess with.

 

[the tractor vet]

If you want to play OFF ROAD then ya need and OFF ROAD truck . From what i have found to be the best is a Mack , bar none . Learned this many years back hauling coal out of strip mines and into the days of running two Oil patch service companys . I ran a Mack R 700 pulling a coal bucket in the early years and loading down in the cut they did not PAVE the ramp nor the mine road , the old township roads were dirt and gravel that turned into a mud bog . IF i could break the load out and get the Mack into second ( not working with huge hp. here being it was a 318 Detroit ) and with those Armstrong 10.00 x22 Drive tires she was coming up and out dragging 40-45 ton and at times pushing mud with the ft. bumper . The one service company i ran the owner was G M all the wayas he also ran a Detroit diesel engine rebuild company for the oil patch . He had two G M C 9500 water trucks and when hauling water to or from a drilling rig you had to have one of the dozers there to drag them in and out . The new company a friend started he wanted me to run the operation and get the equipment so he and i went SHOPPING and bought all Macks except the two frac tank haulers and two 80 BBl water truck one was a Ford 9000 and the other was a 2500 S model I H , Those two did not get off the pavement . To stop the Macks it had to be one nasty location for them to not get in or out on there own. As the company grew we went with semi water trucks and again all Mack . And again they could get in and out of places with 6500 gallon of water far better then anything else even with ones with full lockers Choise of drive tires is another thing . What ya find for a LUG Highway tire is not made for OFF road . I always hated setting in my office and have one of the drivers call on the radio with the WORDS I AM STUCK Let lone have two or three all stuck as we had units scattered all over Ohio W/Pa. W.Ny and W.Va . Then what level of stuck are you , are you D 4 class stuck - D5-6 Stuck or D7 Stuck , always bad when they say BRING TWO

 

[jon f mn]

We have those too, but I can go through more mud and get in
tighter places. Plus I can haul them loaded. We do a lot of
rentals for folks moving where we drop one in the yard to be
filled the move it to the new place. As far as I know we are
the only company that moves loaded 40' containers.

 

[wingnuttx]

Most probably once they mow a couple of times it'll hide those ruts. They could also move back some of that mud with s shovel. If I don't keep my F-250 in 4 wheel drive High..... I'd be stuck more than I am. The front end with the diesel is heavy and we have some gumbo soil. We even stick mowers.
Wingnut

 

[Danny Prosser]

I used to work part time at Payless Cashways Lumber and sometimes I'd make a delivery to a home being built and they would say dump it up there by the house. Well it might be as sloppy as a hog lot and I'd tell them you have 3 choices. First I'll back up until the wheel spins once and dump it, 2nd I'll dump it at the road or third I'll take it back makes me no difference. They would usually go with option #1!

 

[NY 986]

Been waiting on top dressing wheat due to wetness but made a decision yesterday to try it. Did OK for the most part but left a few ruts near the road where everybody can see them. Ran light but that was OK because at least I got over all the ground with most of the fertilizer needed. The forecast looks like it might be a couple of weeks before I can go back to give the balance of what it needed.

 

[MeanGene1]

In the mid-80's, we had a '71 Mack RL700L to haul our two transport trailers, 8 wheel and 16 wheel. There were two of us who did all the dozer work, and both out pickups were set up as pilot cars, so whoever was going to do that job would pilot, the other hauled. 335, Quadriplex and Mack posi bogeys- a good chugger with the D7s and D8s. A few years ago, had to help this one back out with the D6, once empty. That was our apprentice/ crane oiler- man, I wish he was on the O-Line for the Raiders- made that hard hat look like a thimble

 

[MeanGene1]

Jose

 

[caterpillar guy]

Much less mess if the tractor is hooked on before the spinning starts. I put the tractor on if there is any doubt then it gets back and forth with much less effort and strain on the truck. I hate to have to pull stuck trucks out if they are in very deep. I also will walk it and if they don't have the equipment to get me out I don't go in. They can get it at the road or pick it up themselves. No need to tear up equipment for those things.

 

[fixerupper]

(quoted from post at 13:13:25 04/15/21) Much less mess if the tractor is hooked on before the spinning starts. I put the tractor on if there is any doubt then it gets back and forth with much less effort and strain on the truck. I hate to have to pull stuck trucks out if they are in very deep. I also will walk it and if they don't have the equipment to get me out I don't go in. They can get it at the road or pick it up themselves. No need to tear up equipment for those things.

It takes a lot more oomph to pull a stuck truck than most people realize. When my son first got into feed hauling he called me one winter day to ask if I could run up the road a few miles to pull out a stuck feed truck. The tractor I had was a 135 HP 1086 with lots of weights and a loader. The snow was warm and slick and snow at the hog site was just hard packed, not deep at all. The truck made it into the site just fine loaded but after it was empty it was worthless on that warm snow. I hooked the chain up with the smug feeling a simple tug would do the job. I couldnt move him, I just sat there and spun my wheels. I finally did get him moving but it was tough. Another time I had plenty of traction in hard dirt but I just sat there digging a hole and again I was pulling an empty truck sunk slightly in the mud. I had my pride lowered again. LOL.

 

[730virgil]

what is going to do with the Fair Banks engine?