Worst stuck..

Themaddness

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What is the worst stuck that you have ever been in? Came across this poor fella today. GPS was taking him through the burr trail to Escalante.

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”Poor fella”? I hope that was sarcasm.

GPS is trying to clear the roads of morons, but someone always seems to be there to pull em out.
 
Getting oak logs out of a dry creek bed area, that turned to pudding really fast. Hard to get a trackloader stuck too. Had the grapple bucket on so that made it worse.

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I stuck a little red Toyota truck in the Navasota riverbottom when I was 16. 3 months later it dried enough I could get a tractor to it and pull it.

Changed to oil and inspected the carburetor. All good and she cranked right up.
 
High centered on a snow bank (nearly froze) while turkey hunting. Had all 4 chained and 4 wheel drive breaking through drift. Thought the snow piled up by someone's bumper from earlier on was soft as well and it wasn't. When your stuck in 4 wheel drive and chained up, you're stuck.

Dropped off down into a rut while elk hunting, thought I could straddle it. Nope. High centered. Had to jack up each tire on the front to chain up and add a base (logs, rocks). Had to use a Highlift jack (widow maker) to raise the back up to add a base and clear the median causing the high center. Took almost 2 hours, while snowing off and on.
 
I've never been stuck, I drive a Cummins?

Back in the old days, front dump cement trucks used to to pour foundations into forms.

Ever seen a cement truck try to drive out of a basement? Dude slid down in it. Watching them pull the barrel and remount it on another truck before hardening, was NASCAR chit
 
I was out with the grandson on the elk hunt this winter and got stuck in a snow drift and high centered on a big rock with the front differential.

Grandson was wide eyed and asked "now what do we do?"
I got out and handed him the shovel and said dig and pray! Haha

A three hours of digging later and a new differential cover at my local garage the following week and all was well.

This isn't the worst but certainly the most recent.

Zeke
 
”Poor fella”? I hope that was sarcasm.

GPS is trying to clear the roads of morons, but someone always seems to be there to pull em

Where's Matt's Off Road Recovery at? He'll get'em out! ;)
He had a "local guy" I posted this because of the human errors that were happening. Tow truck did not have synthetic ropes or shackles. He was constantly crossing the winch lines when they were under pressure.
After this photo was taken I went south on the notom road. Made it 100 yards before I turned around. The intent was to take the burr trail. Mud stopped me. Turned around to inform them and they had the truck facing south with their tow rig in front of the semi.
I spoke to the driver to make sure they did not try to force him to driving south. They ended up trying to backing that rig to the sandy ranch from the a mile into the park. Instead of turning him north and letting him drive out.
I left after that decision from the "professional".
 
One of my co workers drove a D7 over a lettuce waste pit. He had to step up off the tracks to reach dry ground.

It took maybe 10 minutes to pull him out, but we never let him forget it.
 
Slid my truck off the road into a creek back in Region G in Little Greys River. Last day of the season and every hunter and outfitter was gone. 26 mile walk out to Alpine. Came back the next day with another truck!!
 
Elk hunting in Nevada, my transmission went out on Oniel Basin Rd. You can't get that "unstuck". Pretty expensive tow charge too.
 
Me and the homies met at the local Walmart parking lot one morning for a shed hunting trip into the bone zone. By the time we got out of the parking lot, the sheds had bedded down for the day and it was pointless to continue. So we headed across the street to Denny’s to rest up.

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One day when I worked in the woods the cat skinner didn't show up and they asked me if I wanted to fill in. Sure! I did great all day. About quitting time the hook tender pointed at his watch. I signaled 1 more turn.

I hooked onto two logs and dove straight down the mountain to an existing skid road. There was about a 6' drop off onto the skid road and when I did the left corner of the blade dug into the dirt of the road. There was a stump buried in the road that I couldn't see and the blade caught it and I was hung up to dry. I couldn't go forward and I couldn't back up.

I took the walk of shame down to the landing where everybody was sitting in the crummy ready to go home. They had to get another cat to go up and dig me out. The hook tender forgave me, but he never forgot.
 
Our log loader operator got the cat 988 stuck one time.

The hook tender told him and I to take the 988 down the road to an old landing. There was still a couple truck loads of logs left. We had to grade and sort the logs and wait for a truck.

The old landing was just a wide spot in the road and it was almost a straight drop off on the downhill side. The creek was about 200' below the road.

I was filling out a load ticket and I looked up just in time to see the forks of the loader disappear off the edge of the landing over the hill. He had backed the 988 off the landing....

My heart sank as I ran over to the edge and looked. All I could see was a big cloud of dust with no loader in sight. It's hard to lose a 988. There one second and gone the next.

The bottom line was that he rode the loader backwards clear to the creek. It did not get sideways and roll over. He had some cuts on his head from bouncing against the roof but that was all. A one in a million shot at living and he won.

Anyhow, the loader was stuck. It took 2 full days to build a road down to it and then drag it out. All it had was a hole in the radiator when it hit the bank on the other side of the creek. They fixed that and it was back in service.

The operator later bought a logging truck and I used to see him at the sawmill quite often.
 
Not me personally but I did get to see the aftermath. That is a D11r dozer with a 98yd blade.

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So, what’s the deal? Collapse of the underground workings? I’ve been around a lot of D-11’s over the years and figured it would make a bigger hole.

We had a tractor slide into a multiplate tunnel collapse once. It was a pretty slow motion deal. It was for a rather demanding mining client, so we shored it up with stacks of paperwork and a large chunk of my arse.
 
Bridged underground feeder, the train loader didn’t communicate the feeders he ran. Pretty bad situation really, but it could have gone way worse.
 
Looks like the D 11 was on it's way to hell. Think how much coal the devil could move with one of those. We had 3 TD 25s get washed over a cliff in the oil shale....insurance didn't like that.
 
One time I got stuck on the beach in Alaska. Luckily, I was above the high tide line. I had to jack it up and put a log under the tires. Trying to reverse and not fall off the log was tough! It took hours and hours to get out of there. Quite the counselling session for my wife and I! :)
 

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