27 Replies to “The Truck Got Stuck”

  1. Reminds me of the time my company got three bulldozers stuck in the mud in Peace River county. Fun times!

  2. That reminds me of building our house on 40 Acres in Beaver County, Alberta, just West of Tofield, back in the early 2000s.
    A wee tribute to the county boys back then.
    I was planning how to work out the logistics a week after they all had it worked out.
    Salt of the earth helped us bigly and I am grateful for all those county dudes.
    By the way, they laughed at me for cutting and piling 3 acres of poplar, when they bulldozed the stumps.
    God Bless the West.

  3. Been there. The worst one was when I got stuck and it caught on fire axle deep in alkaline mud(dry on top~wet sticky mud for likely miles deep).

    Broke a hose on backhoe. Broke a winch line on digger. Broke driveshaft on another backhoe. Can’t remember the cost the tow company charged. Lots is the easy answer.

    Plus all the OT paid to the crew trying to get truck out and lost time

    That was Thursday. I skipped Friday. Tried to get a hold of my boss at his house all weekend he was never home. Finally Sunday night he’s home. Ring bell and his wife says he is in garage. I knock on the door. He yells WTF do ya want now!
    My 22 yr old self s*it’s pants.

    Oh. I thought you were my wife.

    I come in we chat for 10 min then he asks. What happened. I give me best.

    He sighs. Asks will it happen again?

    Nope.

    Lesson learned and I gave lots of sweat for that company after that.

    1. Whenever people worry about GMOs I send them to watch that song. Now with the COVID virus it’s rather prescient isn’t it? Only this time it wasn’t a bunch of yahoos with a sack of seed, it was a bunch of Chinese military scientists with a bat virus playing truck got stuck.

  4. The truck’s are out now, just the pup left to retrieve.

    This was a complete self-help (with John Deere assist) job.

      1. 2 inches of rain the last week. The driver decided to take the scenic route through hidden swamp.

        1. You are lying, lady.
          The CBC itself told me that the “Climate Emergency” was destroying Canadian agriculture this spring.
          Just two week ago! It’s the CBC so it must be true! LOL.
          You must be experiencing the weather differently.

          https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/agriculture-canada-farming-drought-rainfall-cattle-praries-1.6026782

          “While droughts are part of the agricultural cycle, Pomeroy said what is unusual this year is the scope of the dryness, extending “from Vancouver Island to southern Quebec, down into the United States, into California, right into Mexico … it’s enormous.”
          …… says John Pomeroy (Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, University of Saskatchewan’s lab in Canmore, Alta)

  5. Gotta love that Saskatchewan gumbo, it sure separates the men from the boys, or in this case the theory from the practical.

  6. Neighbor got his cat down in a creek bed in BC loggin. Came got me and a friend. The water was up to his testicles on the seat. We went and got my friends skidder and a couple chain saws and logging rigging etc.
    Ended up dropping a tree and chaining a log across the tracks at the front, so the cat could walk itself up onto the log with the skidders help.
    Got the cat out but what a screw around working the chain out from between the track plates….
    That cost him mucho cerveza. We were thirsty.

  7. M & I did a moto trip to SSM 2014, got detoured off #1 around Sintaluta due to a washout. Overnight in Kipling. Saw a few 4wd tractors stuck in fields. Back on #1 at Virden. Lotsa westbound semis backed up there.
    Finally lost the rain by Wawa.

  8. Buried a skidder crossing some north Saskatchewan bog on a diamond drill rig move. About 75 meters out there. Sunk to filling the cab before we hit hard sand. Took down 6 or so big spruce, buried them in the sand “on shore” with the cable wrapped a few times around, as an anchor. Sucked that cable through on the first pull. Skidder didn’t budge. The drill crew spent a week digging a trench back to solid ground, up to their necks in swamp crap. Cold too, as it was early June. Backed it out. Found another route.

  9. Wait! Swamp? Hidden swamp!? Call the EPA (Canadian equivalent) before you get permission to dig up a waterway such as that! Think of the delicate biosphere being disturbed! This little equipment fiasco is probably going to alter the migratory bird flyway for the next 25 years! Ohhhhhh ma’aammmmmaaaaaaa

  10. It’s like this old song my dad used to sing to us kids.

    “She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
    She swallowed the cat to catch the bird..
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider…
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.

    I don’t know why,
    She swallowed the fly
    Perhaps, she’ll die…”

    1. “There was an old woman, who swallowed a horse…
      – She died, of course!”

      Oh, and you missed “She swallowed the bird, to catch the spider –
      – Which wriggled, and jiggled, and TICKLED inside her – “

  11. Back in my young pup pipelining days, a subcontractor dropped his D4 in a hole in a swamp. Just the top of the canopy was above water. The contractor spent a long time pulling him out. I didn’t see it happen. I did see the subcontractor cursing a blue streak at the company owner who just presented him with an invoice for the rescue. No sack of beer rescue there. You had to be tough to run an oilpatch company back then. I think you still do. One contractor I know only goes to the bar with the biggest dumbest toughest scrapper around as his buddy. Oilpatch workers aren’t Rhode’s scholars and often react negatively to being fired.

  12. My mother-of-all-stuck story is set in Vietnam, 1968. A tank was up to it’s cupola in a muddy field next to Hwy1. As I drove my Deuce and a half past on the way to Saigon a tank retriever (giant unarmed tracked vehicle) was just hooking up it’s tow cable.

    Returning some hours later two of the beasts still could not pull the tank out and it looked to be another foot deeper in the mud. I pulled over to watch the show. Finally a huge Skycrane helo winched straight up while both retrievers pulled forward. The tank kind of popped up like an airbag had gone off beneath. Better than a monster truck show.

      1. This stuff happened in ancient times also. When they didn’t have much equipment. Imagine what stories they had to tell! So hats off to them, whom we will never hear tell their tale.

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