After you spend all of that time and energy digging down to feed those boards down under the tracks, what is the next step?


A slow steady pull to allow the sticky wet clay to move out of the way as the machine is pulled back. The little track hoe could to be chained to the biggest tree behind it, maybe even 2 or 3 trees. Then the chain we can see laying in the mud attached between the grapple on the hoe and BOTH sides of the loader. Finally thick boards placed to protect the windshield of the track hoe so when that little chain breaks, it does not kill that operator. Then if they work as a team, they might be able to pull it free.

It will take a pair competent operators to extract that machine. But we know from the situation, at least one of them is not competent, else he would not have driven so deep into the mud.

It often does not take much to free a stuck machine, but you need to be careful, else you end up with two machines stuck.