2/ I've already disconnected the Brushog and used recovery straps, a come-along, and a Burke bar to move it ~15 feet back. I then used a chainsaw to remove brush from the area so I could work. Come-along ratchet broke trying to give the tractor some help, so I walked away.
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3/ Will head out there again today with a shovel, some chains and chain hoists. Will dig ramps behind the rear wheels and fill them with chunks of wood, then use the chain hoists to try to pull the Kubota up the ramps. This is gonna be 4+ hours of sweat, suck, and sore muscles
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4/ MISTAKES. WERE. MADE. https://twitter.com/SirSarcasm5/status/1393847302666825729 …
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5/ but, to go into detail - I was brushogging high grass, brambles, etc. Which kinda definitionally meant that I couldn't see the ground underneath all the garbage. ...and even if I could, what I could see LOOKED dry / solid. ...'cept, it wasn't.
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6/ how's the ground look? "looks dry" YOU SAID DRY!!! "I said _looks dry_" well, how's it look now? "...looks dry."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-TFWVQY5w …
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7/ wheel treads are entirely full of mud; you can throw whatever you want in there, and the treads-plus-mud disks just spin smoothly atop it https://twitter.com/StevieDougie/status/1393849925402726401 …
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9/ fair bit of digging, plus a ramp made from 5' lengths of 2x10 plus cross bars for tractionpic.twitter.com/KOqgGAvZbw
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10/ Part way out. Cheap Harbor Freight come-along broke, so I swapped in a cheap Harbor Freight chain lever hoist. I'd cinch it 4" tighter (no movement, all tension in the straps), hop in the seat, put it in reverse, back up 4", hope out of the seat, cinch it another 4", etc.pic.twitter.com/614LsdjTul
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11/ Big bolus of mud blorped out of the wheel hub. Can't really see it, but I also dug trenches behind the front wheels, to the back wheels.pic.twitter.com/F1CL6Pq9zo
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12/ FEL has a single acting hydraulic cylinder (read Escape the City to learn details of that! :) ), but bucket has 2-way cylinder, so I used the "knuckle" function to help inch backwards. 3' back at this point.pic.twitter.com/4mEwNLZ5f3
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14/ The pit more or less closed up after me. The two ramps I made just sunk into the liquified ground. Gone.pic.twitter.com/3f9h4AahYd
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