1010 stuck + future winery pictures

[dustin]

Well everyone, Here's a few pictures of me getting Big Bird (its big and yellow right?) stuck along our new fence line. The other pictures are of our fence... 8ft to 10ft tall for a 800ft border. We put chicken wire a foot or 2 in the ground so the rabbits won't dig under the fence and eat our plants. We planted a few dozen apple/cherry trees, 200 raspberry plants, 100 strawberry plants, 60 grape vines, blueberries, and a large garden for now. This is our dream, the future Lake Superior Winery.

Thanks for viewing, please ask questions! No 1010's were injured during the filming of this broadcast. (yea yea we pulled it out of the mud with the case 580 backhoe)

[Willyr]

Kind of makes me glad I havent taken that winch off of my tractor. So if I did get stuck, At least I would have an alternative?

[dustin]

Not much around for a winch to grab besides mud and loose fence posts! Could always hire the local high school wrestling team to pull you out with a rope.

[Tigerhaze]

Not much around for a winch to grab besides mud and loose fence posts! Could always hire the local high school wrestling team to pull you out with a rope.

They manufacture ground anchors for winching that supposedly handle the weight of smaller crawlers. I've never tried a ground anchor and not sure it would work well with a crawler, but have pondered getting one for my medium duty truck. Here is one example of what is out there:

http://www.pullpal.com/ppspec.html

[dustin]

Hey delete your post before my wife reads it! If she sees one of those she wont let me buy another dozer to pull this one out next time...

[Tigerhaze]

There is always a mudhole deeper and wider than what can be winched out of- thus the need for another crawler

[dustin]

Oh my ,if I told her that, there'd be a for sale sign on the 1010 by dinnertime! And maybe one on my head after that. Still cant get her to drive the dozer... she swung the backhoe boom around a few times though, and pulled the dump truck out a few times.

[dr1zsk1]

Its good to see the work being done by these machines!

[Rick Kr]

Thats a big pile of bare root stock.

I did 2000 spruce this year, always look forward to planting. Lots of work, but lots of fun.

Rick

[Ray III]

Not much around for a winch to grab besides mud and loose fence posts! Could always hire the local high school wrestling team to pull you out with a rope.

They manufacture ground anchors for winching that supposedly handle the weight of smaller crawlers. I've never tried a ground anchor and not sure it would work well with a crawler, but have pondered getting one for my medium duty truck. Here is one example of what is out there:

http://www.pullpal.com/ppspec.html

That is an interesting concept but it would have to be very large to pull a crawler out of wet clay. It would be dragged through the stuff easily, while the ground has a death grip around the machine.

[dustin]

Ive heard of people digging a whole, and burying their spare tire down in it with a chain through the rim.... and usin anyone evg that as an anchor point. I guess you cant pull the tire sideways through the dirt. Anyone ever tried this?

[digitup2]

I was pulling some large white pine logs out a swamp and had one that wouldn't budge so I chained the dozer blade to a swamp maple and started to winch as I realized the log wasn't moving I looked around and the swamp maple and I were surfing across the swamp towards the log .It made for a long day as that was the solidest anchor around .Digitup.

[Paul Buhler]

Hi: I've used "deadmen" when the only anchor was too slight to do the job; ie: a rubber tired backhoe wouldn't hold against a stuck dozer, but after digging a hole and burying a hardwood log with a choker attached, I was able to self extract the dozer (and not damage the backhoe). The wheel and tire could work too - worth a try when options are few.