Re: Stuck! H E L P ! !
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Posted by K.Ray on August 16, 1998 at 10:46:03:
In Reply to: Stuck! H E L P ! ! posted by Jim Van Winkle on August 15, 1998 at 13:34:39:
: Well, I did it -- got my 9N stuck for the first time. I was clearing brush and found a mud hole I did not know existed. : I'm sunk in nearly to the axle -- I can't go forward and I can't go backwards. The mud hole just laughs when I chain the 9N to my 4x2 F150 and try to pull it out that way. : Any tricks to try before I go calling neighbors with bigger tractors? Hello Jim, It sound like you are in for a big lesson. You are lucky in a way that the only thing you stuck was a 9n . A 9n is a pretty light tractor and there is a lot of tractors that are bigger than it that might be able to help. The safest, easiest and best way to get it out is to get a bigger tractor to pull you out. Just chain high on the tow tractor and low on the stuck one with as short a chain as you can use without getting the other tractor stuck. That will put a lot of weight on the back tires of the towtractor for traction
If that is not an option, it will have to get itself out. Short of a lot of digging and jacking that will probably be excessive work and marginally sucessful, you will have to rig it to climb out on it's own. This can be very dangerous, you must be very careful. You can chain a log in front of the stuck wheel/s and then drive out over the log. Make sure that the log is big enough that the tractor will not break it and be ready to get that clutch in as soon as you are out. If it gets away from you, it can come around and knock you off of the tractor. It can get worse from there. Good luck an be careful no matter what you do!
K.Ray
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