Stuck! Any Suggestions??

[Fred from MO]

Well I have had lots of things stuck before but never a tractor. Any suggestions on how to get unstuck? Story behind it was, I was smoothing out ruts in logging/hunting roads. Most of my ground is rocky, and I rounded the bend and she sunk. The ground is different here. Its clay that balls up real easy and fills the treds in the tires. I have tried to shove logs underneath the rear wheels to have her climb up, but they sink. Tried a come along, but it broke. The loader dosent have enough gumption to raise the front end up off the ground due to a leaky seal in the piston/power trol. Tried digging by hand for now.

 

[730d se]

I hestitate recommending what we do, it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS if the operator does not work the clutch with precision.
Here goes:
Find two poles (trees) that are about 2 feet longer than the height of your rear tires. Chain the poles to the outside of each tire, leaving about a foot on each end past the tire.
In 1st gear, slowly allow the rear wheels to turn until the poles dig in.
Let us know or post pictires when you are getting out.
My disclaimer: You accept full responsibilty and risk as to the decisons made to get your tractor out, including using my suggestion.

 

[rustyfarmall]

I've buried a few tractors myself. The only answer is to get a neighbor with a tractor of the same size, or bigger, and a L-O-N-G chain. Don't want to have 2 tractors stuck.

 

[teddy52food]

Let it set until the mud dries up & then drive it out. Or get a bigger tractor to pull it backwards with the loader down.

 

[ET]

If you do this trick in reverse it's a lot safer.

 

[Shawn MN]

That should do the trick with the poles. We useto chain a the top of a handyman jack to a tree (horizontly) the then a chain to the veichle, keeping it in nutral, and "jack" it out backwards. Kinda like using the jack as a winch.

 

[MB Deere]

Sounds like you may want a medic and a helicopter standing by. Tricks like that keeps the fire and rescue in business. A air life flight in our area cost $16,000. Id find someone with another tractor.

 

[730d se]

I believe in doing this safely. The only reason I recommended the poles is that it is easy, poles (trees) are avaialble, and he has a blade on the rear so it is not going flip backwards. He also has the loader up front to add weight to help prevent flipping.

 

[thurlow]

Get another..........preferably bigger..........tractor. Looks like you had enough sense to quit before you totally buried it. My employees usta just let 'em sit and spin.
When we usta 'plow' every foot of ground....before no-til........we'd get stuck numerous times each Spring. Sometimes it'd take 2 or 3 to get the first one out.

 

[BushogPapa]

Once that drawbar is setting on the ground, it gets a lot harder to move..!!
Only really safe direction would be in reverse, to keep the front end on the ground..
NEVER place logs in Front of the wheels and try to drive forward over them..the front will lift easily ...

Ron..

 

[F-I-T]

Fred:

My daughter and I used my little come along hooked to nearby tree to winch out 70D, and was touching the belly and drawbar. Have the wincher take up slack while you rock it backward, slowly, and it will climb out as soon as you get to solid ground. Sometimes another, bigger tractor is not an option.

 

[MB Deere]

Sounds like you may want a medic and a helicopter standing by. Tricks like that keeps the fire and rescue in business. A air life flight in our area cost $16,000. Id find someone with another tractor.

 

[Bob Harvey]

Had my 60 (single front) stuck the same amount -too early on a hay meadow - took 2 days of digging and some planks. Had a 20 ton chain hoist but not enough chain to reach the nearest trees. During that time the ground dried up some so it wasn't too bad - a LOT younger then !!

 

[James Williams]

Call a wrecker and be done with it

jimmy

 

[ncpapaul]

Bigger tractor and do not hook to the front pedestal. Paul

 

[Mike M]

FYI the packings inside of those cylinders is only designed for one way operation. So they won't have much power in the down position. They only hook up 2 hoses so you get enough oil capacity to run it on those tractors.

 

[Len, New Haven, VT]

The pole thing works, but be VERY careful and take it slow. Did it a couple of times with our 50 B. Be sure the poles are stout enough.. that is a lot of weight being applied to those poles at about a 45 degree angle.

 

[jdjerry]

Trade it off on a tractor that isn't stuck.

 

[2520=4010]

You might let the ground dry a little....then raise the fe loader as high as you can (putting more weight on the rear tires, less on the front) safely, then try to back out of the mess.

 

[Fred from MO]

Do you think the JD dealer would give me much on a trade it if I put "as is-where is"??

 

[Fred from MO]

All good suggestions. I might try all the above. The weatherman just updated the forecast, now rain on Tuesday possibly. My luck.

 

[Walt in Jaxn Tn.]

Back in 64 I got our WD Allis Chalmers stuck just like that, only worse. Our farm was in north central Missouri southwest of Bevier the old #7 (Tipple) Known as the "Black Diamond" Anyway, you and I know that the gumbo started to ball up on the front wheels and make the rear tires bite for more traction and more traction as the front tires sank which eventually caused the rear tires to sink till the draw bar was resting on the ground. The "eventually" happened in about 2 seconds as you were praying "please please please" "God, don't let it sink" Then the long walk back to the house to tell your Dad. A few days later he calls the local wrecker who happens to have a couple hundred yards of steel cable on his wench and it takes every bit of that with only a few ft. of cable to spare and wench the tractor out. I don't remember how much it cost back then, too much I'm sure. I cost my father a lot of money with broken equipment and such things. I just realized he saved a lot of money when I went off and joined the Navy back in May of 66!

 

[Jahaze]

This may be to simple, but have you tried to put a board down and use a bottle jack to raise the back end, one side at a time. As the tire comes up, put some wood, or dirt under the tire and repeat. I have done this in soft dirt before, without the risk of flipping the tractor over.

Your come-a-long idea will work, you just need a big enough come-a-long (or a snatch block).

 

[Tech 7]

Long cable (50+ft)pulley block attacthed to stuck tractor,"dead" end of cable attached to nearby stout tree,live end hooked to John Deere M,decent team of horses,local tug of war team or what have you. Been there done that,likley I'll do it again.Just another thing I learned from my late father, Bob

 

[johndeereman]

back tires are not full of mud i bet if you get something solid under front wheels and put her in 3rd or 4th gear and give it hel just might walk out of it those tricycle front kill you in the mud

 

[Bspauld]

for the right money I bet he would. Years ago we had a tractor stuck like that and no help. A neighbor chained a 8 in fence post to both tires,so the post was all the way across the back of the tractor, We carefully backed it up on top of the mud and put boards under the tires, I know some will say it isnt safe and maybe it wasnt but we did get unstuck

 

[wijim]

them are all good ideas, but next time quit before you are in to deep. LOL

 

[Ray]

Get a neighbors big tractor,or let it set there till it dries up and just drive out.

 

[CLW]

Where did the blade go?

 

[Fred from MO]

I flopped it by hand out of the way in case I go find something to pull me out in the rearward direction. The blade was hanging me up. So its out of the way. Great Excercise plan if you nead one..flopping a 6 foot blade end over end in the mud.

 

[old popper]

Fred, I don't believe you did that! Looks like the thing to do is start shopping for a Headstone. That tractor isn't stuck, it is buried. LOL It'll dry up some day....try it again in June.

 

[Gundoctor New Haven VT]

Hope this come thur. This is how you get a tractor out in Norway on You-Tube


David Pidgeon
New Haven, Vermont

Go to link below
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[Handyman]

get a 3/8 or larger cable and pass it under the rear axle and attach end of cable to wheel insert, attach other end of cable to large tree or other siutable anchor point put tractor in reverse and winch tractor out useing axle as winch drum.

 

[jason1816]

too bad that bucket doesn't have double acting cylinders

 

[Paul from MI]

Judging by what I see in front of you, going forward is not an option. Any tractor with a loader is going to be front end heavy, and trying to back it up will only make it worse due to the torque reaction. Your best option is to find another tractor and try to pull it backwards. You'll only need to move it a few feet to get back on solid ground. A trick I have used is to let the pulling tractor dig in a little bit, then shorten the chain enough so that it's falling into the hole when you need the maximum pull. Don't ask me how I know so much about getting a tractor unstuck!!
Paul

 

[bobs old iron]

sounds like everyone wanting a tractor and a long chain, to watch how the original tractor pulls began. as long as you are in the "love thy neighbor's" area, should be in good shape for help. maybe someone with a long chain and a big red tractor[lol] can pull back to where you strated from. good luck which ever way you do it!

 

[Loren NC]

I think I am confused. I see the tractor with wheels fully mudded and blade laying behind it. Then the blade is gone and the tires are clean. Did hosing off the tires help the mud situation or what"s the skinny here?

 

[teddy52food]

Sounds like a good way to put a tree on top of yourself.

 

[BushogPapa]

Funny, how the Older we get, the SMARTER our parents get..!!!

 

[Fred from MO]

No I actually thought if I cleaned out the treads it would help me some, but it didn't appear to. I did roll the blade out of the way because it was holding me up and if I went backwards being pulled out, I did not want that digging down in the mud.