Pulling around Logs and getting Stuck.

[treebogan]

Today me and two mates went out to an old job to pull some Larch Logs one of the guys is going to use to Clad his House.Good thing I forgot the Tyre Chains and we all had a great time un bogging the Truck.Oh yes we did.Alls well that ends well and soon the Logs will be off to the Mill and then onto the side of Rubens new Pad.

 

[stig]

Serves you right for not using a skidder

Looks like a fine day, for Bergen.

No rain.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

So in other words, you have have been out mucking about.

 

[treebogan]

Serves you right for not using a skidder

Looks like a fine day, for Bergen.

No rain.

Skidders won't sit on 80kmph and carry three guys and gear,Mr Pastry.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Skidders won't sit on 80kmph and carry three guys and gear,Mr Pastry.

But they will pull logs out without getting stuck

Actually, I can remember a few times I've had to winch myself unstuck in the biggest baddest skidders

 

[pete mctree]

Looks like fun Mike. Mog is looking well - would look good with a little tray back IMO.

 

[Al Smith]

The novelty of swamping wears off rather quickly .Tire chains or as you say tyre are fine except once you spin them they can have you down to the axle before you know it .Then the fun begins .

I'll tell you from years of sticking anything that can possibley be swamped you're better off to snatch them from high ground with a long line rather than go in and get them in most cases .

 

[Cobleskill]

My bud tried to help me unstick a tractor by backing his F-150 in to hook up. I told him no, does he listen, no. Now I have 2 things to get out. It is funny now, then, no.

 

[stig]

Actually, I can remember a few times I've had to winch myself unstuck in the biggest baddest skidders

Just goes to prove that the right guy can manage to get anything stuck!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Then there is the stick trick
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[Greenhorn]

what language is that?

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Just goes to prove that the right guy can manage to get anything stuck!

Oh definitely. I used to have a Hemek 18 tonne 8 wheel drive clam bunk skidder. Working in a wood, I accidentally reversed into an old ornamental pond. With all the leaf fall, you just couldn't tell it was there. It took quite a bit of unsticking!

 

[kevin bingham]

thats great

 

[woodworkingboy]

What you get stuck seems slightly less important than where. How about in the middle of a mud flat in some nowhere in Baja.... Can't remember what I used for a shovel.

 

[Cobleskill]

The first lesson a intelligent person who gets stuck learns-your stuck, stop trying to get out. You need pulling. I remember learning it as a teen.

 

[HolmenTree]

what language is that?

Norwegian

 

[Al Smith]

Oh if you have enough chain or cable and something to use as a cross tie you can usually waller yourself out of a hole .The best of course is not to get in the hole to begin with but things happen .

Snow you can bull your way through ,mud you just sink like a rock .

 

[arborworks1]

I remember watching the forestry cutter guy get in a bog. He wouldn't stop trying. It was coming in the cab in less than 3 min.

 

[sawinredneck]

The first lesson a intelligent person who gets stuck learns-your stuck, stop trying to get out. You need pulling. I remember learning it as a teen.

The second lesson is "you stuck it, you hook it!"

 

[Paul B]

indeed, thats how its always been with me and the guys, you get your rig stuck its YOUR ass thats going in the muck to hook the line to the bumper.

 

[sawinredneck]

Had a buddy get drunk and take his truck through a lagoon and bury it one night, hooked it to a Jeep and broke the driveshaft on the Jeep, hooked it to a Blazer and it just spun. Finally had to run to ropes, one to the Blazer and one to my Suburban and finally got it out.
I wouldn't ride in that truck for six months after that!

 

[tntree]

I want to float over bogs, I need to test these more

 

[Cobleskill]

My bud called me one afternoon all drunk. He said bring chains and come-alongs. He had come up on a 20 drop off on the edge of a creek, hit the brakes and had none. His truck was about 30 feet out from shore, the cab sunk in the water and the wood flat bed floating. I had him swim out and hook a chain to the truck. The only thing I had to hook the come-along to was a sapling. I winched it in until it started pulling the sapling over. I told him we were done for the day, we needed bigger gear. I took the come-along off and bit the chain around the tree to anchor it, as it was trying to float downstream.

The next day I went back with a tractor and pulled it home. I pulled the dipstick on the engine and water flowed out like a hose. We drained the engine, tranny, and rear end. Flushed them out and refilled. He drove it for years after that. I named the truck "Swamp Sucker" and he painted the name across the hood.

 

[arborworks1]

I want to float over bogs, I need to test these more

Like the general idea of that. Did you make an adaptor to mount duals??

 

[Al Smith]

About the only way to negoiate a swamp is with a lot of flotation ,either tires or tracks .

A standard pick up truck with duals is not the answer though .Once those duals get muddied up it becomes worse .

I worked on a pipeline once where they had a regular swamp crawler .D6 Cat with a long seven or eight roller undercarriage heavy duty steering clutchs and 36" wide tracks with high grousers .That thing could go over mud a person would sink knee deep in .All that plus it had a tail end winch .If it ever sunk it could drag it's way out .

Aspludh has a few swamp bucket rigs on crawler track you see every so often .They haul them around on a low boy most times but I have seen them going down the roads about 20 MPH .They have rubber faced tracks more like a sno-cat .