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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas
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.
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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.