Getting truck stuck in mudd out

Need a strong chain and got to yank it... also be absolutely positive your not going to sink further down to your bumper... No personal experience but saw a video awhile back similar situation guy ends up tearing his bumper off cause he sank down further

 

Yanking it is a good way to break stuff. There's a reason a professional tow truck operator will use his winch rather than hooking a chain between them and yanking a truck out. Slow and smooth is the way to do things without creating more damage.

 

Yeah, gotta get rid of the dirt before putting down gravel. Otherwise it's going to sink into the soil and be worthless.

 

something with a real slow winding winch would work really well .

 

ideally you would push the top soil off first before putting in the gravel. would be a easy job with any kind of loader tractor or skid steer. push the top soil off get a big scoop of gravel and drive back and forth over the sub soil till its packed in good then spread the gravel out.

 

Unless bedrock is 20 feet below ground!
Out on eastern plains in Colorado, I was about 12 or so. My dad was in management at the local utility company. Now power lines tend to run in as short a distance as is practical. If they can get easements through private property, they will do so.
Anyway, there was this access road underneath a high voltage transmission line. It crossed what was normally a dry wash. Except that it really wasn't dry, just underground. So trying to keep a road across it was problematical.
They'd lose the road and end up having to do a recovery on one of the trucks there, several times a year. Building a bridge, or even putting in a culvert was expensive. So they hired a guy to bring out his cat, they brought out a lot of bags of cement, dumped the cement into the bog, then the cat skinner went in and had a good time playing around and mixing the whole mess up.
That crossing lasted for years!

 

that has been becoming popular around here they even have machines that mix the cement into the soil, they refer to it as soil stabilization. but for a driveway if i was down 24 inches and hadn't found clay/rock layer yet id just backfill with 12 inches of crushed concrete with a road gravel ontop of that.

 

That sound about right. i'm still not sure i believe a 4x4 truck could pull it out by itself.

 

yeah i bet.

 

not really in a big hurry as im not using this truck, but here in texas its rainy season so i dont want it to sink even more. eventually if it sinks any more it will start bending the skirting on the front bumper area. right now it's about 2 or so inches from digging into the ground. but i think your right once it gets into the hot summer season the ground will get hard as rock and i will at least be able to get it out easier. we live in an area were there's clay so if its wet its slippery as heck but when it drys it's hard as rock.