the stuck pictures

he said he was stuck,,he is

Looks like he shouldn't have been where he is with street tracks on that track loader. John

He's not in that bad. 50' of chain to attach to the trees ahead of him and strung under the bucket and up to the top of it; and then some finess rolling the bucket and easy power to the tracks, he should be able to get him self out. He hasn't even tried to raise the front up and pull some cribbing under himself, yet either. Lots of possibilities before calling for help, as stated on your earlier post.
Loren

picture doesnt show the hill in front of him,,

you said it

So, did ya hook your Chevy to it?

Nah, he needs a blue ford for that one.

As wet as that looks he would have went down with regular tracks. If he had the wide tracks like they use on muck he may have got through.

Im not taking the blue Ford anywheres near there ! lol

So I have to ask, what was he even doing in there? I don't see any work done at all. Just driving around? Do you have pictures of the
extraction? We like pictures,

he was down below the pictures digging,,tried to get out,,and got in a worse spot,,,extraction is scheduled for wed morning,,,stay tuned,,,

Well Larry I always enjoy your posts and this one I shared with my 4
year old. He says that guy is STUCK IN THE MUD BETTER CALL TOWMATER.
Towmater is one of his favorite characters from the movie Cars.

Rule of thumb for cat removal at least the same size cat to pull it out but bigger is way better, been there done that

Hook a chain to the track grousers attached to a tree and pull yourself out. Easy peasy.

He sounds like a smart young fellow..nice to have him Y/T! Tell him we all said Hello!

The trees arent very big,,and the is quite a hill in front of the machine,the pictures are somewhat deceiving

I agree with ACG, it could worse, a lot worse actually. That looks like a Komatsu, similar in size to a 955 cat, they are not light and do not have a lot of flotation.

Looking at the terrain, its a low spot where water is trapped or collected making underfoot conditions very soft.

Any experienced operator would likely admit to doing the same at some point in their career. I know I have numerous times with small grading tractors, several D3's when I was younger, all by either working on a soft area for too long or just making a bad judgement call. You learn from it and you gain practical knowledge that will steer you away from risky terrain or how to dewater a site and eventually work on it once it dries down. The last job I worked full time as an operator was over in Howell NJ and it was a big flat farm with deep topsoils, depths which I have never seen on any ag land around here. They made us work all winter and it sure as heck got soft in there. Scrapers got buried all the time, 30 yard articulated dump trucks too. One area near the farmstead I got the D8K stuck, but somehow also got it out. Another time with that same tractor, in travel from one work area to another on site, one side just dropped right in and it was stuck but good, undisturbed ground with trapped water that you could not see. That took digging out with an excavator.

One thing that was really an education on that job was when I demonstrated 2 brand new low ground pressure dozers with 36" pads. The topsoil stockpile was huge and so soft that the D8K would drive straight into it, the LGP's could float on it. I was always afraid the crust would give way and me and the tractor would get swallowed up by this giant pile of wet topsoil.

Get the right angle on that and with some force and effort, it will come out. Bad time of year to work in an area like that. Being so dry last summer, bet he could have worked in there then. Could be worse, some operators will keep fooling with it and make it worse, sometimes its far better to stop and figure out the best plan.

that's not stuck that bad it will pull it self out with no problem . hock a chain in each track to dead head put in gear and drive out ran cats for 45 years been stuck 100s of times 90% of the time pulled my self out for big cats i used cable that i made up. make sure your chain is strong and the grab hooks are good NOT CHEEP ONES

I learned long ago to never put my largest machine where it has a chance to get stuck,always save the big one to pull the others out

Plus he has a hydraulic blade to lift the front up to put some wood under the tracks even if they are smooth.

I'm not sure the lad understands the whole forum and post thing but I do show him a fair amount of pictures from here. He wants to know how your buddy is getting"unstuck". Lol his words.

I had my JD 60 stuck right down/up to the frame in what I thought was a dry field, AND, at the top of a slight rise. Took 3 days with shovel and planks to get it out. My SIL works as a heavy crane and off road truck guy in Northern Alberta (oil patch stuff). He sent me some pics of 2 machines sunk in thawed swampy area (freak warming). There is a wide tracked flatdeck truck (can't remember name ,but designed for the area) sunk up to the deck and a LARGE excavator with only the top of the cab and part of the arm showing. They got the truck out after 20 hrs. and 2 D8 (or larger) cats. They left the excavator ($400K+) for 4 months until they could get back to it !

A elderly neighbor taught me how to get a loader out. First cut a 12 inch tree 3 foot wider than the
tracks. Get some good high test chain and tie through the pads. Drive forward until the log come out
the back. Hopefully this will be enough. What he did not tell me was that I need a cutting torch to cut
the very stretched chain. I have gotten a D6D, D6C and 755 deere out doing this.

Toby

he will have to wait till weds nights pictures!

I had my case 450 crawler in a similar situation. Was able to get out by sticking wood under the tracks and a chain from the bucket to a tree and curl the bucket to winch it out as I moved. I had driven over the same spot 2 or 3 times without issue then it just went down.