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Message: <blockquote data-quote="864wood" data-source="post: 363" data-attributes="member: 38"><p>Yes its true, it is possible to get a track machine stuck. I accomplished this dubious feat on a backfill job. The dirt that I originally did the backfill was pure clay and I did this work in the winter so much of the material rolled into the holes was frozen and saturated with water. On a susequent trip to the foundation I had capped this muck with about 10" of decent bank run and sand. By the third trip for final grade we had been getting rain every other day which did not allow the ground to ever really dry up. At the rear of the lot was one little pile of clay left over from initial backfill and the contractor wanted to loose it during the course of the work. So having so much luck with the floatation of a rubber track machine I did not fully appreciate how saturated the ground was. I drove to the clay pile, opened the combo to take a bite of the pile, carved off a piece to drag clay to a more firm piece of ground, managed to back up @10' which put me on backfilled clay with the dirt cap. It was here that the problems started................. The clay/mud finnaly pumped through the cap and gushed to the surface. The right front track sunk @ 20" nose low. Having been mired before I did the age old trick of trying to use the bucket to push myself out backwards. However by raising the bucket ever so slightly to right front track sank another 10". So after a slight adrenline burst I gently pushed the bucket back down to original position to have the right rear of the track to sink @ 20". Mind you I never motored the track forward or aft knowing it would sink machine further. So I proceeded to dig the whole side of the machine out by hand. It scavenged recycled concrete and boards from the job had the machine to the point where it looked like it would drive out. This took about 2 hrs! I climbed back in went to move just a tiny bit and the damn machine plunged another 12" right nose low. I would say I had it mired right nose low at @45% angle. Pretty pathetic overall. So I called Team Fountain and he brought his 580XL 4x4 Case backhoe out to job to drag me out and the hydraulic/static pressure on the machine was so great it almost didn't come out. I only wish I had a camera for pictures and so did Team Fountain. I could win photo contests with the results and Team Fountain could have had great blackmail material.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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