Got Stuck yesterday..

[gant]

Nothing major.. Was pouring some duct bank at a new casino we are doing..its right on the Mississippi so where I was, was nothing but sand.. We had a truck sink and start to lean to the passenger side with 10 yards on it earlier that day that almost turned over.. the driver side duals were off the ground.. only reason it didnt turn over was it was burried in the sand..but anyways.. the batchman said hey josh I got a St. Louis load for ya.. and of course I say sweet cause its an extra $10.66 an hour to go to the city..then he tells me where its at.. and I was like isnt that the place rick had some problems.. He tells me yeah but you will only have 5 yards on, so I say ok no problem..So i get up there to the job back and look at where they want me to go.. So i tell the guy shouldnt be too bad.. well I poured about 3 yards out and didnt have any traction problems, didnt even have it locked in so I could steer better.. steering was the main problem, kept pushing the front end all over the place.. and dont you love it when the laborer tells you how to drive?? lol..but anyways I moved to the other side of a sand pile to pour the other part.. He's like I dont know how soft its gonna be.. So I take the chutes off and get a run at it.. I had to in and then back up along the ditch.. well I made it about 25 feet in and it started to spin so I stopped and locked it in and it started to move but then just sunk.. wouldnt go forward or back.. had to pull me out with a track hoe.. then I tried to back up to get to the ditch and it burried itself again so I stopped .. I poured into a bobcat bucket after that.. after I got empty it was still sunk so I told them to let me try to get it out..So I put it in Drive and eased into it and it started to go so I eased into it a little more and more and it started spinning but was still moving so I nailed it and started turning left and right and it came out..anyways enough babble here are a few pics

[Mort]

Well done. I've done the pour-into-a-bobcat-whilst-stuck thing before, its kinda nice. I'm glad you were safe about it, though, it could've been a lot worse.

[concreteman]

Wow! That is stuck! You did well to get out of there

[LEAD DOG]

WHEN THE PUMPKIN IS DRAGGING ASS....YER STUCK MISTER YA NEED SOME NEW TIRES TOO. NOT MUCH TREAD ON THOSE TIRES....

[gant]

the tires dont even have 10k miles on them.. they are in good shape.. just packed full of sand

[dwfnga]

Well I always say there are two types of driver those that have been stuck and those that are gonna get stuck it happens to us all. I like my belt sometimes I can swing the belt around to shift the weight and get myself out and then are time it takes a wrecker. Everybody stay safe and keep your head low so the layoff sword don't get ya.

[LEAD DOG]

HMMMMM......THEY LOOK STUCK TO ME TOO!

[Mort]

It seems like senior drivers at my work get stuck more often than junior guys. That makes me feel better when it happens to me.

I saw one guy yank out the guy that trained him once. I thought that was ironic.

[concretejoe]

If you're going to do something then you should go full bore. If I'm getting stuck they're going to need a couple of wreckers to get me out. When I do something I pour my heart into it. My truck never gets stuck. The driver, on the other hand, has been known to push the limits occasionally.