Too Wet to Hoe

[Magicman]

When what you want to do overpowers what you should do, trouble is generally just ahead.  It's quite obvious that what I should not have done is get into that low place.  One half turn, and it was down.

Another bad thing is that you'll notice that the right stabilizer is broken, so no help there.  I'll probably go back this afternoon and try to use the bucket to raise that side up and slip some 2X12's under it.






I shoulda known that it was too wet..... :-[ ;D

[Coon]

 God hates a coward eh?  ;)  :D 

[Raider Bill]

Shoulda, coulda woulda.........................
Patton said, No guts no glory :D

[Hilltop366]

I would pull with the rear bucket and roll the font the front bucket at the same time while lifting the hoe off the ground when I was stuck with our old Case. When That won't do it then you know your stuck! It would be nice to have the legs working it can get kind of tippy doing this.

Note: real hard to do with most newer hoes because of the fancy excavator style controls are too far apart to push at the same time with one hand while running the front bucket with the other onless you have three arms. :D

[chevytaHOE5674]

Thats how I unstick my hoe. Pull with the back bucket and roll the front at the same time. Puts the operator in a funky situation, one hand on the hoe controls outback, one up front rolling the front bucket, and a foot on the reverse pedal. Look like a circus clown :D but it gets the job done.

[WH_Conley]

I have forks on mine and can usually put the forks down at an angle and pull with the hoe to get it out. If that don't work it is time to get the dozer. :(

[stonebroke]

See magicman, This kind of thing doesn't happen when the ground is frozen hard as concrete. Course we just have to wait a little longer for our mud.

Stonebroke

[Qweaver]

Been there-done that.  And before we got the dozer it could be a days work to get it out.  I came within a whisker getting the dozer stuck last summer...don't know what I've have done then.  Things were puckered for a few minutes until I got her free.  I don't go there anymore.  :D

[SwampDonkey]

Hey Magicman, just need the right feller on that thing, eh? :D :D :D

I seen a  guy with a D8 bury himself in a spring hole at the source of a brook. That was fun fishing out with a hoe. :D :D  He couldn't see where he was, the grass was 8 feet tall, then he disappeared. ;) I never seen grass grow so tall in my life.

[Magicman]

A happy backhoe....no ME..... :D

I'm crippled without that outrigger.  I swung the hoe around, lifted a wheel up, stuck 2X12's under and let it down.  Same on the other side.  Then lifted the front up and did the same under the fronts.  Drove that sucker out.  Wonder where I got 2X12's from  ???

[woodmills1]

the hoe wouldn't pull it out musta been mucky.

[treefarmer87]

that looks like where we are cutting yellow poplar now in a swamp bottom next to a creek, mud just like that cant drive in the same place twice. we got the tractor stuck just loke that pulling a huge 20 ft log out, had to get the cable and the 450c deere to get it out.

[WDH]

MM,

When it dries out, you can use the offending Hoe to fix the mess  :D

[Magicman]

the hoe wouldn't pull it out musta been mucky. 

I'm sure that the hoe would have pulled itself out.  The problem was, that was in the edge of a yard, and I didn't want to tear it up.  I just tried the simple way first, and it worked.  If I had been back in the boonies....I wouldn't have had 2X12's..... :D

[treefarmer87]

i bet if you had the other stabilizer it would have been easier too

[Magicman]

i bet if you had the other stabilizer it would have been easier too 

Yup, I've got to weld a new side plate on that outrigger.  I was on a sidehill and when it broke it put all of the weight on the hydraulic cylinder, which snapped the piston rod......about $500..... :'(  That old backhoe weighs 14K lbs.

[Coon]

Where's your sense of adventure?..... you never backfilled your ruts.  ;)  ;D

[ErikC]

  I remember the saying "you can never get stuck if you have a backhoe" You can sure make a mess getting out though Nice job on that, no worse than a pickup rut hardly.