What if it Muds?

Fair enough, stupid hurts. But if a company is going to stick me in a truck with 3 inches of ground clearance and no lockers and send me to a muddy lot to load/unload then that's on them as far as I'm concerned. Not my problem they buy trucks with crap specs lol.

 

Good description of a real experience.

 

First clue is when the steers sink to the hubs.. Think fast.. Reverse faster.

 

I took a shortcut the other day.....didn’t even phase me that it rained the night before.....

Well I made it 1/2 way, threw on 1 set, made it 3/4 way and then had to throw another set and a steer to get out.

This mud was the super fine gross stuff when its dry, when its wet it is like a super slide.

 

Here is another one.

This was back 12 years ago when I was a pup. This was a normal drop of mine....only this time the company ripped up their back parking lot to put a new tank in and didn't fence it off to tell me about it.

Needless to say the wrecker bill was on them.

 

ugh. hate mud. but you gotta do what you gotta do...when the hole is done it's time to go, on to the next one.

 

Hauling cattle out of the mountains can be a real derby, as @Cattleman84 was talking about. I came tooling down a forest road a few years back and a cattle pot was sitting astride the road, obviously stuck.

I offered to help him hang chains, but he got a pained look on his face, and said “all that’ll do is make the rig taller”. And in that gumbo, he was right. We shot the breeze for a while till the freeze started biting hard, and he got enough grip to move.

 

beautiful sunny northern Alberta day, miles from anywhere on a resources road, and the only black cloud in the sky decides to open up right where I'm going. le sigh

 

DM Bowman ...I got stuck in a mud hole that was covered with snow ..They put it on my DAC report

 

In the 50's my uncle had a small flatbed company pullin beams out of Beth Steel and pre-fabs for Miles Homes.

Dad helped part time and they went to pick up empty flats from Miles loads in New Rochelle, just being built up at the time.

Somehow one of the trailers was mired up to the deck. Uncle said it was even with the mud at the back end.

Just happened to be near a rail spur and along comes the local drill. Uncle flagged them down and mentioning his dad worked for a railroad offered lunch money if they would let them hook a chain to the locomotive and the crew gladly puled it out.

2 men, 4 trailers, one really coated in mud and dad found the crank to the contractors small crane [he was an operator by trade] fired it up and decked the flats and they got outta dodge.