Re: the stuck pictures

Posted by Billy NY on January 23, 2017 at 16:45:45 from (74.76.4.60):

In Reply to: the stuck pictures posted by larry@stinescorner on January 23, 2017 at 14:05:45:

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.

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