Worst Stuck Equipment Recovery Of My Career Yet! Will We Get Them Out?

#heavyequipment #farming #recovery

[@bearswartz2907]

Good work! A tip for you, from the peat swamps of Alaska... when you're digging your mats out, lay one behind you and grab the next. Get on top and back out with the last one. You can walk them all back without risking getting stuck. All those passes you were making going back to grab the mats had me groaning lol. That field wasn't as bad as some of the swamps I've worked in, but it wasn't far off! It's a sinking feeling when you start to sink😆

[@dennisenright9347]

Our old family farm had a low flat field that we literally called the swamp. Beautiful black earth, always wet. My father had gotten permission to have a shovel take out some big rocks on the neighbors property that kept it from draining. Unfortunately they tried to take a shortcut back onto our land. When the surface sod broke his excavator almost disappeared. You could just see the top of the cab. It took two others to get him out. They cut about two dozen big maple trees to put under themselves to have a "solid" place to work from. The stuck one had a wide bucket and they grabbed on both sides of it. He was almost coming out of that hole vertically. About a four acre field and it was shaking like a bowl of jello. We never went near that field again.

[@peteschiavoni]

Man that was some serious stuck!! Thank you Craig for allowing the video.

[@2nickles647]

It's great to have friends who have heavy equipment.

[@AhTechus]

It's great to have friends who own heavy equipment.

[@jackbraithwaite8345]

What a mess! Glad everything is out on stable ground and no one was injured. 👍🇺🇲🙏😄

[@raymundo7687]

I know where there is a dozer and tractor/disk buried forever in the same kinda situation. Good job getting it out.Once I got a call to help, my backhoe wasn't gonna do any good considering there was already one out there with mud over the floor, and countless other tractors with logs chained to the rims and trucks on big swampers already out in the field. Luckily we are in south texas where its an oilfield boom town and hit up a bunch of companies for old work over rig cable, put it together about a miles worth with pole trucks and finally got everything out. Hell of a couple days.

[@andylarner3531]

I think he needs some new field tile great job guys

[@garymessina1609]

A muddy mess but by a team effort you've got it done great video thanks Brandon and family and friends

[@TheNotdonedreaming]

Really enjoyed the experience it's so many people that have never experienced that and some might have thought it was boring but to another heavy machine operator it was brilliant. Great job to you and your family working together, to get the job done. Now you have another surgery to do when the ground dries up. Thanks for the video.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Thank you!

[@artillerest43rdva7]

great job un mucking the sprayer and the bucket. it is a astounding how badly stuck it was, and that you got it out! it is so bad in how fast you will get swallowed up by the nasty muck! so you put sand in that area to stop that from happening again. you are great friend to go out and help them out!

[@jamarie1972]

A few years ago Probably 20 we had two excavators stuck in wet conditions We dug a hole 15-20 feet away maybe 10 foot deep left it for a day and the water drained off into the hole allowing the surface to dry out a bit. Great video guy’s, glad you got them out

[@ronniewilliz153]

Ive had to do that being a operator in fl its very wet here

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

What a mess. I'll bet that field is really productive in a dry year, but after all that it makes one wonder if it is worth the trouble. Great teamwork. Congrats.

[@jeremyhartman1225]

Great video!! Thanks for bringing us along. That was bad stuck. 👍

[@stevehetrick2676]

WOW, what a mess!!!! Great operator's and big equipment saved the day👍👍👍👍

[@vettemaniac2237]

It's so good to have REALLY big toys ... Nice job!!!

[@multitoolish]

I love how when I'm doing stuff like this and there's 20 people standing around watching and everyone of them thinks they know how to do it better then you. They aggravate me to no end!

[@crazymtbrider]

Love getting the hand signal's that make no sense from the folk standing around as well

[@rogerschlitter5116]

In my area we have went from 80-100’ spacing of tile “where needed” to splitting those into 40-50’ lines and eventually pattern tiling the whole farm.

[@robo1210]

Could see a piece of tile flopping around when he was lookin for mats. I’d say he had a plugged or broke tile there anyway for it to be that soft.

[@danshobbies13]

Boy what a mess. Thank you farmers for all you do.

[@Russkiify]

everything will get out, you just need brain and have to chill, like this dude! great job guys!

[@jonathancrissinger2301]

Wow that had me on the edge of my seat. It really looked like you were stuck for a minute there. I've been around muck, and that was sketchy. Great job guys.

[@CaryGuyer]

Awesome video and great recovery. Reminds me of a time when CFS got a sprayer stuck in one of our fields over by Bruce Lake in the muck. Kirk Ingram brought his excavator and spent 6 hours into the dark getting it out. Hats off to you.

[@michaelcogdill9534]

Nice to see a post from back home, I grew up in Kewanna, take care

[@Cletrac305]

My neighbor was digging with a small dragline in peat. The bucket broke through and he let it free fall and measured the cable. 70 feet of clear water beneath it! I know where there's a D4 cat that fell through. Divers found it 30 feet down and wrote it off.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

That's wild! I've never seen a pocket like that that's kind scary!!

[@williammatzek4660]

Most of us quit playing in the mud when we were children! I'm glad I don't have to work the ground when it dries!!!

[@tombishop5835]

When stuff happens it’s good to have friends with big toys!

[@stevejorden7087]

Good job,loved the in cab exsper.going to classes now to be a operator...thanks

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Thank you!

[@Dan.Whiteford]

What a mess - I think you are lucky to have been able to recover that equipment from that swampy situation - appalling conditions!

[@craigadair128]

I guess the bright side on this is that it didn't seem like anything got torn up. Keep up the good work.

[@RomeKG471]

Except for the field tile, lol

[@dirtgrainsteel]

There's been thousands of feet of tile thrown at that farm over the years so it's hard to tell what's good and what's junk but nothing ever seems to help it

[@RomeKG471]

@@dirtgrainsteel I imagine the sand dont help either with plugging tile.

[@RomeKG471]

@@dirtgrainsteel Would cutting a ditch through it help?

[@dirtgrainsteel]

@cletrac12c what would help this farm and it's a major undertaking but it needs the top all pushed off and a foot of sand brought in and the top put back on like the spot we just did last week with the D8 we have done alot of that over the years and it helps tremendously

[@declanoshaughnessy7733]

Great job guys one thing that field needs is heavier mould drainage 😮😮

[@medvedmedvedoff4803]

Hail to the men of labour! My father (who`s still alive today, God bless him!) was a farmer in the past, and all my childhood and youth were spent in the fields. What happened with tis Cobelco? Is this field was a dried swamp in the past or so? With best wishes from Russia.

[@Jack_Rabbit_1]

Thanks for the video guys. Well that’s what bogged to the eyeballs looks like. 😂 Hopefully that doesn’t happen again or any time soon. Keep up the great work.

[@alithemagicbum]

Wow.....she's stuck, great recovery! Looked sketchy for a minute.👍👍👍🍻

[@Budd56]

Good job. Half dozen years ago north east of Hanna someone got a JD combine stuck in the muck From what i heard they were not as lucky on no damage 😳😳

[@garymessina1609]

Great job great video thanks Brandon and George and family

[@AndrewHCann]

Holy Crow Brandon :) that something like happened in 2008 in my area when working with my cousins Heavy Duty Equipment when take trees out for house going be built in near Lake Ontario west of Port Hope Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 ! All most machinery got stuck in and we had lots logs with tons skids put machinery in track of dozer plus backhoe out plus my tow truck and float trailer with 2 wrenches tow lines ! Used the biggest hoe to yank and each dozer and small plus hoe then wood chipper ! That was long 3 days to do and afterwards had wait for dry up 3 month's before foundation be pour in to ! Funniest part well drilling fast 100 feet get done loads water for years ahead too ! Thanks for the Summer Season Weather was hot 🔥 with lots humidity to dry up on 2800 square feet foundation of house too to dry up on ! Hopefully does same hear to for all too !

[@andychristopher3887]

Great recovery video

[@Brad772006]

Great job and team effort. I own a Kobelco sk150lc and every time I get in that stuff, I get a little nervous. Luckily, I have not sunk mine yet and hopefully never will.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Thank you!

[@paulcollins8296]

Great video, very entertaining, but to be honest the sprayer should never have been on that land in those conditions. Perhaps it was an agricultural contractor who did not know the land. Let us hope that it wasn't the landowner who took the decision to drive on that land in those conditions. The whole drama has done substantial damage to the soil as soil is a medium full of life that needs a structure to flourish. Squeezing all that wonderful top soil flat in wet weather is exactly how to diminish the fertility and water infiltration ability of that wonderful black soil.

[@skidoojosey6037]

I love this channel. The most exciting content on KZbin!

[@markgamble8377]

That sucks. Good to have family n friends with big equipment

[@brittblanton8342]

WOW Brandon I have never seen a worse mud mess than this!!!😮 I was afraid you were going to get stuck also.

[@whathasxgottodowithit3919.]

Good job on bad ground, if they can get the water away they need a tile drain plan sooner than later. With the sprayer one needs to take great care when pulling, it is easy to pull one of those in half :-(

[@thomasr.miller5553]

Fantastic recovery. Time for TILE in the swamp. Thanks

[@CPUDOCTHE1]

I like playing in the mud twice as much as most people but this is ridiculous. With it being that wet, the sprayer can't be used for a couple of days anyhow. If it would have been drier there would not have been as many chunks of mat left in the field that will cause frustration and maybe even damage to planting and tillage equipment or even running a chunk of wood through a combine.

[@ronaldradtke8577]

Great job boyz. U guys have some nice toys !!! Great teamwork !!!!

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Thank you!

[@young11984]

Regular old soup hole, when i buried my IHI 175 track loader a guy came down with a JD 325 and plucked it out the creek like it was a toy canoe. After that i bougt a 110 JD excavator and its surprised at the power it had when i stuck the loader again though, wasnt as easy as the 325 but hooked the bucket and it helped it pull itself. Both times was a rotten stump collapsed with soup dirt under it

[@jpenny01]

Those machines are absolute beasts, was an operator for about 22 years. If you stack mats for yourself, it's a whole lot safer.

[@PA-ek3ul]

Why do some people just keep driving on into trouble 🙄 good job on the recovery 👏

[@tncountryboy06]

more often than not, it actually looks solid, until youre in the middle of it, then its too late

[@Holzplatz]

You can hear in your voice that not the excavator only is working. Thanks for sharing

[@yenerm114]

don’t look good for them on planting that spot this year , w how deep and as many holes are out there now , least the machines are all out n safe , good job brother 👌🤘🤘

[@gregprocknal9232]

Up here in WNY Region farmers have been putting drainage lines in their fields on account of soft pits that swallow equipment. Now they have the fields already planted now. 2wks earlier than past. Costly yes, but the difference is still being able to farm ,without equipment sinking!!

[@minnesotatomcat]

Ha I used to build those case sprayers here in Minnesota at the benson assembly plant, and they are big heavy pigs and I’m not surprised to see one buried!

[@DarkVoidIII]

They say there is no use for hovercraft that float on a cushion of air over a field. I think this would be an ideal addition to some sprayer manufacturer's list of farming equipment that they could sell. That sprayer could hover over the field and stay above the mud problems, hovercraft have little to no issues at all with a slightly muddy patch as they're designed to float over such obstacles anyway.😃💡

[@randybedker1584]

That's some crazy muck . My uncle's farm was just like that till they put tile every 20 feet. It was nasty stuff. Firm on top then fall through and your done.

[@billdoyle514]

Great team work !

[@PatrickKelly-e7b]

Some badass operators good job dude 👍

[@bludoe1]

Just found your channel on YT, what a great recovery!

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Welcome aboard! Thank you!

[@chrisjohnson4666]

Reminds me of peat bogs no bottom... seen this in happen in Southern WI jet black loam soil zero bottom...

[@AuctionIndiana]

The sprayer was like I don't know how many Excavators its going to take....but i know how many they are going to use😳

[@anthonymartinez4760]

5 Klyify I'm

[@anthonymartinez4760]

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[@branonjohnson8617]

Ron white would happy to hear you say that... Or play the copy right card?

[@michaelkonrad4055]

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[@colingunn4822]

I have a Kobelco 330. I been stuck in muskeg as well. If you can keep the cab out and the engine running.... Well 3 foot round and 20 foot long wood you can go any where. We have loss equipment and lives in that muskeg it is no place for a green horn.

[@rongrace479]

Your right about one thing you never know what you're going to see on your videos that's why I like them

[@chadshidler8903]

That was a great video. Lot of hard work but the pros got them out.

[@josephkovalcik8266]

In some cases if applicable and securing the stuck machinery, wouldn't it be better to let the ground drain and dry a bit for a couple of days rather than fighting the soft muck?

[@jerryventricelli8176]

Thanks for the video! Great job.

[@beyondmiddleagedman7240]

That'll be a nice smooth field to till.

[@Bill-sp8kb]

Looks like Louisiana swamp land. Didn't know one could farm on quicksand.

[@rayarthur586]

Great video and a tip of the hat to the editor 👍.

[@lanceluxton-jh9mh]

The field is good and plowed now for next plant!

[@andrewbrenneman9592]

First thing is to make a RIDICULOUS MESS OF THE FIELD. Lol. Second is to get machines out. Third is go home & have a beer round with the crew who helped.

[@jimrobin98]

WHAT were they thinking? A heavy machine --on wet soil? What did they think was going to happen? Just asking!

[@eddienash5426]

Need to build a pond at the low point in that field. Drain tiles to the pond from the field to the pond.

[@SlackerU]

That's so many machines & time that you might ought to dig out the sediment in all of your ditches so that more of that water can be off the prize-land.

[@robertpeters9438]

I have often wondered if air filled bag rollers like they use to launch ships could be placed under the belly of machines and anchored like rollers to traverse swampy areas.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

I have often thought about this the problem is these sprayers have so much plumbing under them that something would end up getting broke now if the had belly pans like a dozer you would have something!!

[@Stratos53100]

Good one, i see this was last year, How long did it take the field to dry out, As well as did they ever get the ruts and holes filled it, Overall that was a Mess no doubt. 1st watch of channel.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Welcome to the channel!....about a month later it got dry enough they got over it to spray it what really surprised me was it had been planted prior to us going out there and after the corn came up you really couldn't tell where we had been with the excavators it grew a very good corn crop and they were able to get it harvested last fall they just went around the spots where the ruts were they will probably fix them this spring....thank you!

[@xyzzy4567]

Very nice

[@dsdragoon]

Looks like that field needs a Dirt Prefect drainage system installed to drain it better.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Nothing against Dirt Perfect or his setup but this is no place to take his plow what really needs to be done is peel the top of haul in 16" of sand put the top back on then tile it right now you would never get across it with a plow really it should be tiled with a bucket wheel trencher on some very wide tires or tracks

[@OOpSjm]

The field already appears o have a bunch of drainage tile.

[@johnwarwick4105]

How quickly the situation goes from bad to shit😂. Not sure I would like to be sat inline with that tow rope pulling hard 😳. All ended well 👍

[@chrispine5731]

I didn’t know you were related to Tim and Jamie. I knew the back in the truck pulling days.

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Ahhh the truck pulling days!! I've been thinking about getting my truck out of retirement lol

[@thomasdesmond2248]

Looks like that field needs tile. God bless

[@evriellesmith6659]

best argument for field tile I have seen

[@gregdiaz5788]

Nice work gentleman

[@GWAYGWAY1]

Dig that out and make a pond there with drainage piped going to it, then in summer use the water.

[@jaapbruijn1300]

A little playing in the mud. Always nice😎

[@Herbybandit]

Looks like the ideal spot for a pond 😂

[@stevejorden7087]

I was there,laying mats and tighting my grip on the arm of the chair,,and i added a little pedel work,and we did it..nice sloppy recovery..lol

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Lol I do the same thing when I watch videos or I start yelling at the TV lol

[@robertcoutts926]

Just build a matting road so you have fighting chance of getting them onto something solid.

[@rongrose3746]

WOW. 3” . We hardly got a sprinkle down by Indy .

[@coryweber6188]

We use to have a Hitachi 750 it didn't last long maybe 4 months it was the slowest and under powered machine we replaced it with a cat 385 we also have a few Komatsu which are nice machines

[@randycharest4507]

I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO CHRIS 😊

[@rodneywroten2994]

It is amazing how you guys are movig at all. Nlce job guys

[@stanley-rn7xo]

I think you need to get master pipelayer to come in with his machine and put about 3 mile tile in that field😂😂😂

[@clintsessions5949]

I think a little more digging right of the getgo and ramp down to the tracks then the climb out on the mats wont be so steep! Just my 2 cents you cant ever have enough mats! And use that bucket to DIG!

[@MASS1866]

That looks like fun from your vantage point

[@trickstothetrades1801]

I just want to know who thought it was a good idea to take the sprayer across the field that day 😂 and was it worth it. (Just kidding around) great job

[@tncountryboy06]

it usually looks much dryer than it actually is, and you dont know until its too late

[@timstevens2866]

Planting on that looks about as difficult as frying eggs on soup

[@PaulBruce-lz1lc]

Next time just leave the sprayer in the field till it dries out..but hey it makes a good video 😅

[@maddog2771]

Nothing like farming on quick sand

[@davidwipf5198]

Trust me here in our fields in Montana with 3 inches of rain you couldn’t drive with an excavator even after 3 days of sunshine you’d be sliding tracks in one spot (gumbo dirt)

[@johnnyholland8765]

What a mud fest. NOW STAY OUTTA THERE TILL IT DRIES UP SOME!!!!

[@lounar482]

Man...the perils of farming never end. Guess we missed the final pull on that excavator?

[@dirtgrainsteel]

Well you missed the final pull because I was trying to get my self out lol once he came up out of the hole my uncle pulled with the 330 Hitachi from up on the high ground and finshed dragging him out if you look close you can see the blue rope pulling on the track frame

[@bmd1825]

That was a family reunion! 😂😂😂😂

[@thadsmith2889]

I’m assuming that this is part of the area that was the Grand Kankakee Marsh. That’s some mud for sure.