Extreme Tractor Recovery

[Peter]

How did he get down there and stay there without sliding right in?

 

Good effort on the recovery.

 

[tobimax]

Das war ein Hollander wasser zieht ihm an! Ooops wrong language:laugh1:

[Scott Walker]

wonder how much that cost?

[Highland Forestry]

It's videos like that that make me feel glad I took our debogging and recovery insurance for our machinery!!

[detritus21]

I'm guessing he'd been flail mowing the bank and slipped over the edge. Reckon the flail digging in has prevented the tractor going over.

[Peter]

Yeah, can't see any obvious skid marks though.

[Daniël Bos]

Been there, done that.

When I still lived in the Netherlands I worked for our local waterways authority for a while.

Got a wee hurlimann with a slasher type mower out front, mowing the path and an offset flail on the back mowing the bank with a conveyor moving the grass up and onto the path.

 

I'd be chased by a little holder with a finger bar on a long reach arm, mid-mounted and a long reach belt-rake on the back. He'd mow the actual underwater bit of the bank and drag his mowings out behind him.

 

Going along a canal which turned out to be dead end. Reversing out again the whole bank suddenly slid down into the ditch. No way forward, no way back.

I could just side-shift the flail so it wedged on the bottom of the ditch to stop sliding down further.

Fortunately there was a road on the other side of the water, to park a crane on and lift the whole combo up and over the water...

[oldwoodcutter]

Nice one Peter.

Ve haf vays of getting you out.