[TheForge] Adventures in steel delivery.

[Andrew Vida]

Yeah, that is how I managed.  Learned by getting stuck and waiting and 
digging a lot.  Even with the very capable offroad tires on my truck and 
the mild 3 to 4 degree grade behind the house I have had to leave the 
vehicle back there for a few days until things dried out.  The 4Runner 
also had moderately aggressive tires and had to spend the night by the 
barn more than once.  Carrying 100# sacks of corn on my shoulders when I 
can't get the vehicles to the barn is an exercise in avoiding death by 
absence of friction.  The SLIGHTEST grade - like one degree and you are 
slipping down the mountain.

When I hit that billion dollar lottery I will bury this place under 
gravel. :)

On 3/16/2013 5:24 PM, Geoff Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
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