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Getting truck stuck in mudd out

Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by joseph1853, Mar 11, 2017.

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  1. Mar 18, 2017 #141
    crb

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    Could use your airbags to help get drives up. Over inflate air bags blocks up deflate, repeat process.

    Tractor should pull you out.
     
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  3. Mar 18, 2017 #142
    ChaoSS

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    Good lord, man, it's been a week. By this time I could have walked to wherever you live, handcrafted enough blocks and rope to pull that truck out by hand, and been back at my house.
     
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  4. Mar 18, 2017 #143
    SAR

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    I love this thread, @joseph1853 you have got to have the most patience I have ever seen in someone. Your getting lots of good ideas here. I just hope it don't rain soon then your back to square one.

    I would not use a chain, unless the next vehicle has a hard bite and not spinning. I would use a rope or strap so you can have a little give or tug, within reason of course. Good luck
     
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  5. Mar 18, 2017 #144
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    i might be ending up with a bit of my own mud reclamation project this spring. where i normally park my pickup along the side of my house, the frost is coming out of the ground and i piled a bunch of snow up hill from there from some big storms we got this year cause i ran out of room in my normal spots. so its getting a bunch of run off from the snow melt. and its not the best ground to begin with kinda has gravel but there is top soil below it. was starting to rut up pretty bad pushing the top soil to the top .

    brought the skid steer home from the shop today and smoothed it back out but its so saturated it was basically just pushing mud around. couldn't get any sort of compaction on it. moved some of the uphill snow pile down to the low end. parking out on the street till it can dry out some. hoping once the snow melts and things dry out it will be fine if not i might have to dig it all out and fix it. if i was going to half ### it though now would be the time to dump some 1.5 inch ballast rock on it and drive it down into the mud. i wouldn't be able to add much material in there though without taking some out or it would mess with the slope of the grade away from the house to keep the water from running away from rather than towards..
     
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  7. Mar 19, 2017 #145
    joseph1853

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    Right, I need a good tow strap anyways. Have to get a heavy duty one though. Thanks for the patience recognition. Yes after 3 kids and being married for almost 20 years not to mention my truck driving history I have developed a bit of patience or thick skin whatever you want to call it. I can go through days that would kill an average joe and say at the end I'm still alive were good lol..
     
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  8. Mar 20, 2017 #146
    joseph1853

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    well I tried chaining up the drives before airing up the bags to get the rear to lift the front drives up and they only came up about an inch or so. i guess since there's no weight on them they weren't sunk down enough to do any real lifting on them. i mean with all the air out of the bags they barely came down an inch or so.. still waiting on catching my neighbor at home to get him to bring his tractor over..
     
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  9. Mar 23, 2017 #147
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    Woohoo! Got it out finally. Remembered one of my neighbors has a 3/4 ton chevy 4x4. He came over and we had it out in 2 minutes.. I've moved it onto an area on our lane/driveway that has gravel. still thinking about getting something set up so I could park her closer to the house as using my power tools to work on it becomes a real pain when the trucks 80 feet away.
     
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  10. Mar 23, 2017 #148
    joseph1853

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    i can get some picks of the holes it left and were it is now if yall want.
     
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  11. Mar 23, 2017 #149
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    For a permatemp solution, I would look into a poured 14x24ish concrete pad, 6" thick, with a steel canopy, 14' sidewalls.
     
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  12. Mar 23, 2017 #150
    Cat sdp

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    You work less than I do..... it's been 2 weeks.
     
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