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What's the worst you've ever stuck one?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rafter S" data-source="post: 1355615" data-attributes="member: 21194"><p>I never had one stuck quite that bad, but had a situation where I kept getting bigger and bigger stuff stuck. I took my 2wd pickup to check on some heifers one morning before work about 25 years ago. It was at a rent pasture that had a lot of sandy ground. I drove through a flat and got stuck. I walked out and got my father to come with his 65hp tractor with a FEL on it. I told him that the ground felt hard close to my truck so I didn't think we'd have any trouble pulling it out with a chain. And I was right. We pulled it right out. Then we're heading back up the hill going out and instead of following the road he cut across a corner with the tractor and got it stuck. He fooled with it a little while, and I asked him to let me try. I had always heard that you could walk one out with the FEL, so I wanted to give it a shot. I rolled the bucket all the way down, put some pressure on it and rolled it back up to move the tractor. However, for every inch the tractor moved back, it moved an inch down. It didn't take me long to figure out that wasn't going to work.</p><p></p><p>So we got in my truck (because I <em><strong>had</strong></em> followed the road coming up the hill) and left to get his buddy that had a winch truck. We told him to look at the ground real good because we didn't want to get his truck stuck. Because of the way the tractor was positioned he couldn't get to it from the road, but he said he thought it would be okay. So he set up and let the cable out to the tractor. Got it out okay. We're in business now. Until he got ready to leave with the winch truck. It was sitting on a little bit of an incline, and when he tried to move it the front tires were pushing up sand instead of turning.</p><p></p><p>I neglected to mention earlier that this guy owned a bulldozer or two, and at least one of the big articulated 4WD 8 tire John Deere tractors with two dirt scrapers behind it. He said he'd let the truck sit there for a few days until he got his tractor out of the shop, then he'd come in and pull the truck out with it. I was sweating bullets about this time, since the way our luck had been going I figured we'd get it stuck too, and if that happened I'd have to buy it and let it sit there, but he assured me it would be okay. Anyway, a few days later it was out of the shop. It was so big that we had to take a gate off the hinges and pull a post to even get to the truck, but it turns out he was right. Pulled the truck right out without any problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rafter S, post: 1355615, member: 21194"] I never had one stuck quite that bad, but had a situation where I kept getting bigger and bigger stuff stuck. I took my 2wd pickup to check on some heifers one morning before work about 25 years ago. It was at a rent pasture that had a lot of sandy ground. I drove through a flat and got stuck. I walked out and got my father to come with his 65hp tractor with a FEL on it. I told him that the ground felt hard close to my truck so I didn't think we'd have any trouble pulling it out with a chain. And I was right. We pulled it right out. Then we're heading back up the hill going out and instead of following the road he cut across a corner with the tractor and got it stuck. He fooled with it a little while, and I asked him to let me try. I had always heard that you could walk one out with the FEL, so I wanted to give it a shot. I rolled the bucket all the way down, put some pressure on it and rolled it back up to move the tractor. However, for every inch the tractor moved back, it moved an inch down. It didn't take me long to figure out that wasn't going to work. So we got in my truck (because I [i][b]had[/b][/i] followed the road coming up the hill) and left to get his buddy that had a winch truck. We told him to look at the ground real good because we didn't want to get his truck stuck. Because of the way the tractor was positioned he couldn't get to it from the road, but he said he thought it would be okay. So he set up and let the cable out to the tractor. Got it out okay. We're in business now. Until he got ready to leave with the winch truck. It was sitting on a little bit of an incline, and when he tried to move it the front tires were pushing up sand instead of turning. I neglected to mention earlier that this guy owned a bulldozer or two, and at least one of the big articulated 4WD 8 tire John Deere tractors with two dirt scrapers behind it. He said he'd let the truck sit there for a few days until he got his tractor out of the shop, then he'd come in and pull the truck out with it. I was sweating bullets about this time, since the way our luck had been going I figured we'd get it stuck too, and if that happened I'd have to buy it and let it sit there, but he assured me it would be okay. Anyway, a few days later it was out of the shop. It was so big that we had to take a gate off the hinges and pull a post to even get to the truck, but it turns out he was right. Pulled the truck right out without any problems. [/QUOTE]
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