Track loader stuck in deep mud - GIF

[Frank S]

If you take a close look at the surrounding wooded area, I think you will see that the mud he drove off into could have been hidden from view probably covered with foliage and crusted over. He could have been well into the bog before the machine even started to sink.
Bogs like that can be very deceiving sometimes only a foot deep while other times as much as 8 or 10 feet deep. I've seen farm equipment like combines sink all the way to the cabs in just the length of the machine trying to harvest. And requiring as many as 3 dozers to pull them out.
Their only chance of recovery with that small excavator and the what looks like a 3/8" chain will be like landing a 15lb black bass with 4 lb test line. It can be done and has been done without breaking the fishing line, it just takes a while and lots of care not to pull too hard or too fast.
2 things they have going against them though is 1 he had already partially bogged before much closer to the the excavator and 2 they are set up at an angle to the stuck machine