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

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😆

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think he needs some new field tile great job guys

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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