GeoffDiamond
LawnSite Bronze Member
- Location
- Maine
Well my own, is kinda different, the truck wasn't really stuck. It was back in my earlier days of plowing. I was plowing a residential drive about 150 long 20 feet wide, streight up to the garage. I was pushing the snow off to the side of the garage, and then backdragging infront of the doors. Well, there had been a freeze and thaw cycle, between storms. So where i had been pushing snow on the side of the garage was all icy. Well i was pushing about 8" of powder up the drive, when i made the turn off to the side and hit the pile. I hit the pile slow, and didn't raise the blade in time to stack the snow any higher. So I came in for a second attempt, and when i did the whole truck slid sideways towards the trim on the edge of the garage. Well the rib on the outside drivers side of the plow got stuck between the trim boards on edge of the garage.
So what could i do, could go foward more damage, couldn't go backwards more damage, couldn't lift the plow or the board would come off.
So what did i do? i disconnected the 8' fisher plow, and backed the truck up, then reconnected the plow. Talk about a pain in the @ss, moving that plow, was hard, disconnecting and reconnecting it in a full angle position was even harder.
So the truck was stuck between two trim boards.
Worst stuck story by employee.
in 1995, the 1988 GMC 1500, was on its last year. It had been reduced to a residential plow truck, all it should have ever been ( only thats another story). The truck was set up with, a 4.3 V6, auto, 9' fisher plow. Well i had an employee with plenty of plowing experience, and just wasn't use to that plow set up. The regular driver of that truck was out sick, or had a weekend off or something. So i was going to have someone with less experience on the other guys route, because the truck was set up correctly.
Well the drive came off a development road, went into the woods about 150', the drive was about 11' wide, went down a hill about an 8' drop over 75 feet, then back up the hill over 75'. The dip in the road was caused by a small stream at the bottom, the good news is, the roadbed was very wide where the stream was, the bad news was the there was a turn on the the stream bed.
Well the employee, steve, was heading down the drive, with his 9' fisher and foil, came down the stream bed, tried to make the turn. However the turn he was trying to make was opposite the direction the snow was being cast. The end result was he didn't make the turn. The other driver new, that you had to go down the hill, very slow, and cast the snow in the same direction of the turn. This driver was trying to cast the snow all to one side, something he always has and still dose on residential drives.
Anyways the gmc, went down the side of the stream bed, the rear bumper was about 8' from the edge of the drive, the front plow was about 20' from the stream, to give you a size of how wide this road bed was built.
The employee got on the radio and said he was stuck with the gmc. No big deal the gmc got stuck on average of 2 times a storm. We pulled it out of ditches, when the fram was on the ground, with a 3/4 ton pick up. When he said bring the big truck ( at the time F 350 dump with sander), the big truck came, plowed out the drive, then sanded the p!ss out of the drive, and pulled the truck out.
To this day, these two guys said that they almost needed the backhoe, for that one. So far, have never needed anything other than a truck to get a truck un stuck.
Geoff
So what could i do, could go foward more damage, couldn't go backwards more damage, couldn't lift the plow or the board would come off.
So what did i do? i disconnected the 8' fisher plow, and backed the truck up, then reconnected the plow. Talk about a pain in the @ss, moving that plow, was hard, disconnecting and reconnecting it in a full angle position was even harder.
So the truck was stuck between two trim boards.
Worst stuck story by employee.
in 1995, the 1988 GMC 1500, was on its last year. It had been reduced to a residential plow truck, all it should have ever been ( only thats another story). The truck was set up with, a 4.3 V6, auto, 9' fisher plow. Well i had an employee with plenty of plowing experience, and just wasn't use to that plow set up. The regular driver of that truck was out sick, or had a weekend off or something. So i was going to have someone with less experience on the other guys route, because the truck was set up correctly.
Well the drive came off a development road, went into the woods about 150', the drive was about 11' wide, went down a hill about an 8' drop over 75 feet, then back up the hill over 75'. The dip in the road was caused by a small stream at the bottom, the good news is, the roadbed was very wide where the stream was, the bad news was the there was a turn on the the stream bed.
Well the employee, steve, was heading down the drive, with his 9' fisher and foil, came down the stream bed, tried to make the turn. However the turn he was trying to make was opposite the direction the snow was being cast. The end result was he didn't make the turn. The other driver new, that you had to go down the hill, very slow, and cast the snow in the same direction of the turn. This driver was trying to cast the snow all to one side, something he always has and still dose on residential drives.
Anyways the gmc, went down the side of the stream bed, the rear bumper was about 8' from the edge of the drive, the front plow was about 20' from the stream, to give you a size of how wide this road bed was built.
The employee got on the radio and said he was stuck with the gmc. No big deal the gmc got stuck on average of 2 times a storm. We pulled it out of ditches, when the fram was on the ground, with a 3/4 ton pick up. When he said bring the big truck ( at the time F 350 dump with sander), the big truck came, plowed out the drive, then sanded the p!ss out of the drive, and pulled the truck out.
To this day, these two guys said that they almost needed the backhoe, for that one. So far, have never needed anything other than a truck to get a truck un stuck.
Geoff