[TheForge] Adventures in steel delivery.

[Geoff Nelson]

That sounds like the clay soil we have here. I have seen a tractor stuck 
whilst trying to pull out a 4WD that was being pulled out by a back 
actor that was being pulled out by a front end loader. The last one only 
managed as it was on a paved road. Clay and lots of rain = avoid it at 
all costs. Until I moved here I did not believe that it was possible to 
get that stuck. You live and learn.


Andrew Vida wrote:
> This road was cut from the mountainside.  It is 2 years old + and 
> stable.  Been using it when reasonably dry, so it is pretty well 
> walked-in.
>
> This clay may not be anything you've encountered before - it is like 
> concrete when dry and like ice when it gets too wet. Murderously so 
> and ANY vehicle including tracked can get completely hosed in it, 
> especially if there is more than about a 2* grade.  If you have not 
> seen it first hand you would have a hard time believing it.  When this 
> shit is REALLY wet, a D6 would have a very difficult time getting out 
> of this driveway.  Twenty feet east and it would bury itself in no 
> time and would have to sit until things dried out before it could 
> climb out of the bowl.