Thread: An interesting afternoon!

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Reconditioning by Dulux, Gordie?

Errr umm, yes something like that! Although I did weld in some patches for the rust on the guards!

I must be doing it wrong,

I was using a landrover to recover a tractor..........

rkie.jpg
on the left as you look at it, is the RHR corner of Arkie,

Arkies aldi winch on a 2:1 to a post with the yota on the right 2:1 back to itself anchored by a kubota mini tractor thing and another 4x4 (funny thing about 2:1 1:1 the yota wasnt moving, 2:1 back to itself the yota was moving so we tied a heap of extra weight on it and it wasnt moving)

best guess is around 8T of effective pull.

Did you have a win, Dave, or is it like John's tractor, still stuck in the paddock?

'tis the season, drove past an MQ patrol bogged to the axles on the way home this afternoon in the middle of a paddock.

Regards,
Tote

Hi

Originally Posted by JDNSW

And an interesting morning! Now have my tractor bogged as well, went to get next door's bulldozer - flat battery, and to cap it off, started to rain. Given up until it dries out a bit.

It's still raining so you have time on Sat morning to back back and get pics for us :-)

Thanks
Mike

I used my 30T snatch strap a couple of years ago to extricate my bogged header 6 times, although I didn't use it on my bogged semi when one side tri went down crossing a paddock. FWA tractor with large duals on the rear, a lovely hydraulic clutch gearbox and a heavy chain worked wonders after removing about 8T from the trailer.

Originally Posted by Saitch

A wise move, JD. Now this may or may not be from experience but..........never, ever bog a dozer!!!!!

About 1985 when the Brisbane Airport runway extension was being built, the contractors were pumping sand from Moreton Bay onto the site to make new land. One David Ogle had a Fiatallis 41B dozer (D10 equivalent, 75 tonnes) spreading the water/sand soup as it was pumped in. Murphy's Law applied and the operator bogged it. Nothing anything like big enough on site to shift it. By the time gear had been assembled a couple of tides had come and gone and the 41 was well and truly grouted in. Two largish Komatsu swamp dozers, a crawler crane, and two biggish excavators eventually dug out around it and lifted and pulled hard enough to get the 41 out of the mire.