Redneck Day at the mud hole

[Griff]

Sorry that none of these are actually a JD crawler but I think most of you will enjoy these. Here in Austin we haven't seen rain in months and most of our tanks are dryed up so we decided to have a redneck day and tow and old junk car around in the mud and through the reeds (reed surfing), before the day was over we managed to get everything stuck (including a JD4955 with duals). Hope you enjoy.

Those back duals are about 6' tall and the fronts are about 4' and it is all wheel drive. All six wheels were spinning free.

You might ask how do you get a tractor like that stuck...Pulling out a redneck truck that got stuck towing a redneck car. They are all hooked together with 1" steel cable.

This is what the duals looked like after it was out

Now you might wonder how you get something like that un-stuck. Well a Cat D8 is all we had available (sorry about the bad word)

And what do you do to get over end the day?
Crush the car that started it all.

[Lu47Dan]

Hmmm , this thread might be better in "Off Topic" but it has pictures of a crawler in it . Looks like fun . Dan

[digitup2]

That looks like one of my mud muckin projects. I have found that 1 inch cable is a good thing to have lots of .While finishing off a drainage job this week there was a farm auction sale just down the road .The auctioner sold a 1&1/2 inch pull cable about 20 feet long to me for 5 bucks .He laughingly guarenteed that I would not break that one!! to me and the croud .One farmer piped up and said you sold it to the wrong guy then!!. A laugh came over the croud and I asked for that in writing .I got one for you a 4955 and seven furrow plow deeper than that with a 4850 that deep in front all I had was two 3/8 chains , the 650J and a 310J4x4 backhoe that had to paw it's way across the field to get them out that was good for half a day of mudding.Unhooked the plow with the hoe and pulled the tractors out seperately . It took all both Js had to break out the plow backwords for the first few feet .With a foot of snow and no frozen ground under it things have become a black and white mud hole fast up here .Digitup .

[Griff]

Wow that does sound like a mud fiasco. I should have the 350 going by saturday afternon, FedEx is dropping off the last of the parts tomorrow. I can't wait to have her done. Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. I'll post up the url for the redneck days youtube video as soon as I get it uploaded

[digitup2]

Great I'll watch for it .Digitup.

[Griff]

Here is the youtube url for the rest of the fiasco at the lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1airEQfJ0k

[steamfitter99]

Now that is funny. Looks like a good time. LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Tom

[Lavoy]

That is HILARIOUS! Next time though, you need a dash cam on the sled so we can get the full effect from the surfer's point of view.
Lavoy

[Lucky]

WAY, WAY funny.

[Tigerhaze]

That is great! I thought people did funny things around here when they got bored but that takes the cake!

So did I see correctly that there were passengers in the car, and if so did you have harnesses for them? Surely it would be a wild ride. I agree with Lavoy- a cam inside the car would have been great. It would have been really funny to have a remote cam installed in the car when the dozer crushed it.

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

I see a potential problem here.....

What do you use to unstick the D8 should it get stuck, too????

lol lol lol

I like to use a series of crawlers, by size, so that one has hope of unsticking one with another!

lol lol lol

Stan

[Griff]

We had a plan for that as well, the D8 has gotten stuck before and we had an huge old excavator on stand by. Last time the D8 got stuck they used the excavator and picked it up out of the mud and set it on dry land. Thats actually the machine we are thinking of using for the next redneck day...car golf using the excavator as the club with it extended the speed ate the bucket full swing is about 44mph. There will definitely be more reed surfing as well with an in car camera.

[Ray III]

That was awesome! You should have sold tickets to go on the sled. Of course, you would have been sued out of everything you owned...