Thread: An interesting afternoon!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

With some near sunshine this afternoon, I went and had a look (and took some pictures) I did not drive into the paddock, but walked in!20200816_151634a.jpg20200816_151700a.jpg20200816_151748a.jpg

Thats a good job on the Fergie! we went out to the farm today and it was strictly quad bike travel in the paddocks.

Regards,
Tote

Tyre on backwards, and no diff lock , but doubt it would make any difference in that ‘orrible country.

so some cheap firewood for the bloke on a quad bike😎

Originally Posted by JDNSW

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Once had a heading-eye collie dog that would sit all day if told to. Tail and the eyes would be the only thing moving. That's a well trained tractor, sitting there waiting for you all this time.

Going to be interesting getting that vehicle past the tractor ruts.

Once it dries out a bit, and I get the Chamberlain out (some planks and a hilift I think), my intention is to get a very long chain and put the Chamberlain on solid ground. The Fergie was almost climbing out, and jacking it up and putting some logs in the ruts plus the pull should move it. Then just put the chain on the Great Wall and with the Chamberlain on solid ground I think it will come - well, the bullbar will, anyway.

up around Mudgee we called it Vomit country when we had a club Christmas in July at a member's brothers property.

Everyone got bogged and we spent all day recovering.

One bloke broke a snatch strap which took out the tailgate of an RRC.

Another with a D1(same at broken snatch strap) had a 12000 lb winch which just pulled him along like the Queen Mary with mud half way up the drivers door, so he couldn't get out.

We eventually got him out by placing my exhaust jack under the front then pulling the car up onto it and rolling it a bit.

Regards PhilipA

My experience is that if you can winch or pull the bogged vehicle out it will just walk back up onto solid ground, power on the wheels will just dig it in further

I don't have a picture of the recovery but the mud on the wheels gives an idea...

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Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by JDNSW

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4 chains, 2 railway sleeper dimensioned logs about a foot longer than each wheel, looks like a slasher deck, so grab some sandbags and grass...

fill the sandbags, press down on the 3 point and chuck them in as best you can, while the 3 point is taking weight chain a log to each wheel so about 1foot or so of it is sticking out past the rubber. (in some situations you only need to get level with the rubber)

lift the slasher to just clear the ground (if you dont have a slasher or other attachment on the back I highly recommend not trying this recovery technique, the tractor will wheel stand) first gear and if the fronts not buried she'll paddle wheel out.


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No slasher, no 3-point linkage. The frame in that picture is for the blade that I took off to reduce the weight on the front wheels. Last time I got the front wheel like that the blade was on, and I was actually able to lift the front out with logs under the blade - after the ground dried out.