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Posted by: okiedude
Block and tackle
Block and tackle
Block and tackle
Block and tackle!!!!!!
Posted by: TIC
Oh boy, I have been there... I vote for the hi lift jack also... Man those things are a pain to carry around, but they are a life saver.
Posted by: NLWarrior01
My grandfather used a system for his snomobile when he was getting older. He had changed the track on the machine, and kept the old one. He cut about 4' of it, and tied a good stout rope through the eyelets, rolled it up and stored it on his machine. If he ever got stuck up in the woods, he simply stomped down the snow in front of the machine, unrolled the old track (grips facing up) and got it situated in contact with the track of the stuck machine. The he'd run that rope out around the nearest tree and back to the grab bar on the snowmachine .. the machine would then pull itself out with the grip it was getting on the old track. You could try something like that? Good luck in any event ..
Posted by: swampyjunior
Recon,
We get stuck like that a bunch up here on the beaches. You cannot pull it unless you lift it up first. to do this you need a high lift jack and some 2x10's.
Jack up each tire by the bumper closet to the tire and place the board under the tire. After all 4 tires are clear of the ground. Give it a tug. If its real soft ground the process may need to be repeated.
If you try to pull it straight away the front bumper, alxles and under carriage are plowing ground.
You can use pulleys, and a block and tackle set-up to double, tripple, etc.your pulling power. However, it then becomes easier to snap the pull line.
Good Luck
SJ
Posted by: CaptainQuint
Best bet is a trip to the local farm or industrial equipment store for heavy duty snatch blocks, block and tackles, chains, spools of cable and related rigging gear. Pick up a couple of hi-lift jacks while you're at it and a bunch of cribbing. Survey the situation and construct a properly anchored and thought out rigging using mechanical advantage and the cribbing to lift the vehicle out of the mud if possible before pulling it. Trying to use brute force is just going to bend and break both stuck and the recovery vehicles as well as increase the possibility of people getting hurt. Lots of force being generated and if something breaks loose it can be deadly.
Posted by: Catterman
Wait until the ground freezes, then do the jack up trick.
Posted by: 700vtwinman
A couple of sticks of dynamite should do the trick....LOL....
Posted by: deanz400
tie the rope to a big tree or double it up ,then run it thru the rim of the tractor wheel and put the tractor in low gear and reverse and the tractor acts as it's own winch ,or chain some small logs like 4" in diameter and wider then the tire of the tractor and it acts like a paddle .couple of ideas ,
Posted by: deanz400
lsat time i've seen a truck stuck like that it took 2 full size trucks on 60' snatch straps hitting it in tandem to break the truck out.
Posted by: tencubed
Find yourself an older fellow that has "been there, done that" and have him come help you. Nothing like experience and know how when this kind of stuff happens. Watch and learn.
Posted by: tencubed
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Originally posted by: wolfman111471
You can use two chains and two 3 feet logs for the tractor. Strap the chains through the tractors rear rims and around the log on the front of each side of the rear tires of the tractor , then in low you should be able to use the tractor to lift its self up out of its ruts then use additional logs to make a type of bridge untill you are out of the ruts. Good luck
Using this trick to get out of the mud is dangerous to say the least if you try to go forward with the tractor. This is very apt to lift the front end and cause the tractor to flip over backwards way faster than you can put on the brakes to stop it. If you must use logs and chain put the tractor in reverse which will still lift it out of the mud but hold the front end down. This is also an easy way to ruin a clutch or tear out the final drive in the rearend.
Posted by: pwillie
I stuck my tractor down to the axle in a swamp behind my house,and I used a chain fall hooked to a tree and used reverse in the tractor to pull it out.It wasn't easy,but a little work and a lot of luck it will work.
Posted by: weez440
i guess i am at an advantage i got an 835 4wd versatile tractor at my disposal. we did get stuck that bad before with a pickup and here is how we got it out. first we tried endlessly to pull it out straight and it wouldn't budge, so i told everyone that on the farm i learned that if you pull something straight on it takes about twice the horsepower to pull something out. so what we did is pull it at a slight angle and it breaks the suction and it will crawl out. BEWARE doing this could potentially twist your frame so i wouldn't go at an extreme angle but just a slight one. some people may be against this but desperate times call for desperate measures. oh btw we used a tow truck then we had to chain a one ton pickup to the front of the towtruck to keep the front end down.
Posted by: 4wheelerfred
last feb, my uncle got his 03 Sierra 1500 4x4 stuck back on tha land, well it was sitting on the frame, the rear axels was not even above ground anymore... the front end was also compleatly gone under the mud.
it took a 250HP case 6 wheeled Tractor to pull him out, and that was about at its limit in the mud...... it took al thta tractor had, it could have gone either way, then becasue they left it over night in febuary. the mud in the fron end Froze and when they toes the truck a mile back to the house the front end dug into the mud like a plow the hole way, im surprized nothing got riped off.....
jack it up boards under the tires and then get a truck hooked to it, slowly get some tension in the chain then mash both trucks and hope for the best!
good luck!
if you lived any were neer me id just barow a dozer from the farm and pull you out. as long as you payed for gas.'
that what you should do, go to a local farm and offer to pay them to come pull you out.
Posted by: scrammersam
cant you unstuck the tractor with the bucket
Posted by: ihop
y dont u just get some one with a dodge?
Posted by: ihop
jk ur best bet is a bulldozer they will pull anything or try hooking two tractors up to it or 1 tractor and 2 trucks.
Posted by: squeege
This is how I got unstuck....
2 Things you will need: one large tractor, 6-8 or more chains.....
hook up 1 or 2 chains between the truck and unstuck tractor and drive them until the tractor is in large ruts...then unhook the tractor and move forward out of the ruts....hook another chain to the first ones....and repeat untill you are able to drive out.......It took me about 100yds of chain
Posted by: squeege
I got my parents full-size blazer stuck real bad.....I got that sinking feeling driving across a field and didn't know what to do.....I used the trusted method of hammer the gas and hope for the best.....as stated earlier, It took a large Full size Case Cab Tractor to pull me out...LOL Sorry Mom...HAHHAHA!
Posted by: xFreebirdx
Any luck getting the truck out yet???
Posted by: recon342
my freind has a 96 z71 ext cab with tires and all he got it stuck in a bad hole it is realy just a real bad low spot in a feild that is on a slope agaisnt the woods the back end is buried to the axle the front is buried a little bit he tried to pull it out with a small sized tractor and it got stuck to we tried to pull it out with a f 150 and another z71 and they ony pulled it like 2 feet it is burried to both axles and the front bucket wont pull it no further we have to pull it up hill we had a small come a long that we had hooked to a tree and it helped some then it broke we cant get a big tractor to were it is and i saw on dicovery channel one time that the army got a humvee stuck and they used snach blocks and what not and rigged it up to some trees and stuff and they were able to use 5 people pulling a rope to get out but i dont no how they had the stuff rigged any suggestions on how to get them out we mainly need to get the tractor out cause we think we can get the truck out
Posted by: recon342
well see we tried that but its so bad it gust keeps mashing then into the mud i dont think there is a bottom there he has some of rope on those big spoils like you buy at the store he has 2 rolls full of roap were going to put then togather and trinthenm to a tree on the outher side of the feild then hook 4 come a longs to the ropes and attach the to th bar on the front of the tractor then we are going to hook a cable on the top of the bar and to the tree and take a small chain come a long hook to the cable and then on the hooks that are on the bucket then while 2 people crank them 4 come a longs i am going to get on the tractor and raise the buket that way when i raise the bucket it will pullthe cable up and that way the tractor can pull its self out and them come a longs will make a big difference cause we have used them before in outher problems
Posted by: flyinscrammy
Wow been there, done that. Swampy Jr is all over it. Follow those instructions, they've always worked for me. They work in the sand too.....
Posted by: mudfriendly
Sounds to me like you need a friend with a bulldozer. I was in a similar situation a long time ago and that's what it took to finally get my truck out after fighting with it for a little less than a week. Good luck.
Posted by: wolfman111471
You can use two chains and two 3 feet logs for the tractor. Strap the chains through the tractors rear rims and around the log on the front of each side of the rear tires of the tractor , then in low you should be able to use the tractor to lift its self up out of its ruts then use additional logs to make a type of bridge untill you are out of the ruts. Good luck
