Okay, my farm has become a vehicle graveyard...

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Basically, it started with our pickup getting stuck on the far end of the farm. No big deal, brother-in-law comes out with his pickup to help us out and gets stuck 200 feet from our pickup. Neighbor comes by with his big tractor (which is 2WD) and beaches his tractor trying to pull out 2nd pickup truck. He then gets his little 4WD compact tractor, and sinks that too.

It gets better... we use a 3rd pickup truck to get the big tractor yanked out. We dug out the little 4WD. The 3rd truck comes around to pull the 2nd truck, gets stuck. Use the big tractor to pull out the 3rd truck, stuck again.

Right now we have three pickups and a large tractor stuck out in our field. My concern is my brother-in-laws truck. I need to get that pulled so we can get it back to him. Our truck can before a flowerbed, and the neighbors can pull their own stuff out (I don't have keys for their stuff anyways). I was going to just call AAA, but I don't know who they'd send out and I'd rather work with someone I know.

Any suggestions on who I can get out here (Fenton) to try to get out my brother in laws pickup? AAA preferably, but the brother-in-law gave us his debit card info. We need it pulled out of the ruts, and it should drive.
 
Did the 4WD tractor have Ag tires? A tow truck is probably going to get stuck, you'll probably need a bigger tractor.

If a tow truck winch is reachable from the road that would probably be your best bet.
 
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It did, but it was a compact tractor. Might weigh in at a whopping ton. The large tractor was easily three times that. A lot of the issue here was operator error. The tricky bit is that once you cut through the field grass, you have about 10 seconds to move it or you start digging in. My father in law suggested finding someone with a Jeep or something that has 4WD, swampers, and a winch. But I don't know anyone like that.
 
Dang George. Crazy day there. And nice farm! We got 15 acres now and once we have another barn (for the animals) and some more fencing plan to have a few goats. I will have to check in with you guys on tips. Say hi to Tracy!
 
yeah, you really need somebody with a winch.

In an emergency, you can use a hi-lift as a manual winch. Just don't get too close with the rescue vehicle
 
Hugger Z said:
Dang George. Crazy day there. And nice farm! We got 15 acres now and once we have another barn (for the animals) and some more fencing plan to have a few goats. I will have to check in with you guys on tips. Say hi to Tracy!
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Will do, and thanks! This is year two of farming, and it's a blast. We have... 14 goats right now, 5 milking. Just gave my new milking rig a test drive, and it's doing about as well as I could've hoped for it's maiden run.

derbydad276 said:
unless you get a dozer or a tractor with flotation tires on your gonna need to wait untill the ground dries up
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That is a possibility for our truck, but I want to be able to get my brother-in-laws truck out. The neighbors got their own shit stuck, and I think they are having someone come out to haul them out.

DetroitStyle said:
yeah, you really need somebody with a winch.

In an emergency, you can use a hi-lift as a manual winch. Just don't get too close with the rescue vehicle
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If I had one, I'd hook it to the back of my 300C and try to pull his truck. We tried to lift it with a floor jack and get rocks under it, which almost worked. I ran out of daylight and quite frankly, energy. I'm pretty badly sunburned, too.

Teef racing said:
J&m towing has there monster truck lol
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Where is J&M? Do they cover Fenton? I mean, I know I can flip through the phone book, but I was looking for a "Motown Tested, Motown Approved" towing co. I know there is a shop a couple miles away, but I also know from talking to the neighbors that they are pretty crooked. I'd rather give the business to a fellow member, if I'm honest.
 
FBODGRL said:
That sucks George!

Place looks great btw. Tell trase I said hello :wavey:
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Yes, yes it does. Local tow shop came out and pulled both of our trucks. We are down to only two field ornaments, and they ain't ours.

And thank you! We've put thousands of hours into it. Ducks, chickens, goats... and we'll probably get a llama pretty soon. It's a lot of work, but we love it.
 
Just have a few yards of gravel dumped. Once unstuck, lay down logs level in the ground where u often travel about.
 
We ended up getting them pulled by the local towing co. These trucks were pretty far out, would've needed a lot of gravel carted out to them since a dump truck would've sank down. For now, we just plan on staying out of the field until we get better tires and a winch. It just gets too muddy otherwise.
 
It's on Linden Road, south of Center Road (Exit 75 on 23), west of 23. We got the vehicles pulled yesterday thanks to my brother-in-law; he footed the bill for the recovery as we are tight on cash. For now, we are staying out of the field with vehicles until we can get them properly equipped (boggers and a winch). We can let the goats graze out there though.
 
yeah i was going to say a tow truck with a boom should be able to reach pretty far. we got a newer f150 stuck in an ice/water pit up north one time and the tow truck was easily 100foot away and yanked the truck out like it was nothing. the tow driver was like yeah im out here all the time lol.
 
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