Almost made it. :)
 

Wow! At least the FIL and box scraper might help keep it from sinking more. I think some people mistakenly tractors can't get stuck.

I got a tractor stuck in far far less last year. Would have been funny if it weren’t me.

BTDT. Worst I've been stuck was with a Cat 380 trackhoe-a full size excavator- borrowed from a buddy with a sitework biz-was doing some work on a pond at our farm in Pa when I backed up and the ground collapsed under me-turned out there was an old foundation that I didn't know about that had been poorly backfilled and the pond had been leaking into it a few feet down-immediately down to the top of the tracks. Mud suction prevented me using the boom to pull out. Had to call one of those big rig wreckers, between that and the boom we got it out, but there was much bullet sweating going on.

That happened with my unimog one time…

That caused the Tourettes to come out big time.

It required my backhoe and a bunch of redneck ingenuity to extract.

Four wheel drive/all wheel drive/locking diffs are all good . But mother nature is better 😋 . Back when I was young and stupid I quickly found out my Jeep CJ was not invincible . Hard lesson to learn .

What's your plan?

The recovery is probably gonna look something like this:!

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First... lots of beer.
Second... not to get my truck stuck!
Third... shovel and winch.

Took a few hours but get her out. :D

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The important thing is to get it out before the neighbors see it.:D

Growing up on a lake as a kid, I remember when they would drain/dredge it empty.
Backhoes would make mats of railroad ties and create their own pathway across the muck, raising the mat behind the backhoe, bridging it around to the front, and dropping it in front, making it's own road as it moved along.

Id go back into town and have somebody get a ****load of 4x4's (whatever is around) and run them under the FEL bucket to give something for the bucket to lift against and un muckify the front end.

I'd also run 4x4's etc crosswise behind the rear tires to give it something to ride over as it goes back.

Same for the front if you can get the bucket to lift off something solid.

The rear box hopefully will lift enough to get it clear, but I'd be trying to get at least plywood under it so it doesn't get it's arse stuck in the mud too during all the other excitement.

I can almost see the tow cable snapping and slingshotting it's arse through the truck rear window like all the youtube videos. Unless it's an easy pull, I'd be thinking, up, and then across the mud, rather than through it.

Excellent.

I have three small diesel tractors in the class you got stuck. I bet it was over as soon as the exhaust was covered in mud:cool:

I dropped a tire in a ditch snow plowing, a bigger MF 235, and if my neighbor wasn't such a gentleman and equipped with a MUCH bigger tractor, it might still be there.

Glad it worked out.:D

Only got stuck once in my old Dodge 4X4 pickup. My deceased best buddy David was in the timber Industry. Deer hunting, told me he had a great spot lined up for a drive that always yielded a nice buck. Should known when he had me go on a logging road up "Swamp Mountain", not misnamed.
Assuring me it was a shallow puddle, telling me the spot wasn't far, he talked me into driving on.

Yeah, I got buried! No way to drive out. David assuring me he thought it was shallower, protesting innocence, he watched me cuss, fuss, and muss for a good 45 minutes. Once I'd decided that we'd have to hike miles out, he dug out the walkie-talkie he had hidden in his coat.

I heard a diesel start...his brother came around the curve driving the skidder to pull me out. The whole thing a set up...lots of laughter as they explained they wanted me to realize that 4 wheel drive was great for getting you further from help before you got stuck.

Oh...should explain...a skidder is a machine used to drag logs through the brush. Huge rubber tires...

I saw a situation like that once. The driver stuck the bucket in the mud then used the hydraulics to push it resulting in the tractor going backwards. Five minutes he was out of the swamp.

Looks like grounded docks in the background. Were you going to try some dredging?

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Not when you're that deep, trust me.
Compact tractors don't have a lot of loader force-intentionally-so you can't lift something that will roll it on its nose. You can still flip one that way, but you need to have a load on forks way in front of the bucket or you catch a raised bucket on something unyielding and roll it backwards. Lotsa folks get killed in tractor rollovers.

I had a situation like that about 55 years ago working in the Sierras doing general construction. I was using a tractor with a back hoe and loader to clean the sediment out of a small pond and got tthe tractor stuck in the mud in the pond bottom. I tried everything - sing the loader and back hoe to push/pull wouldn't get traction. I lifted the tractor up using the back hoe and loader to place 2x12 boards with cleats under the wheels. The weight of the tractor broke the boards. I finally got out using the loader bucket and back hoe to lift the tractor up and move it for ward a bit at a time. Took me about four hours total to get out.

Grading for a boat ramp.
Waited a couple weeks for the last bit of water to go.
Should have waited another week!
The water wasn't there when I got stuck Friday.
Rained all day sat and sun just to make the extraction fun!

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Just refill the lake and no one will ever know you fu... it ever happened.

Ah contraire, mon ami, it was immortalized the moment he clicked the "Post" button.

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