Good work! A tip for you, from the peat swamps of Alaska... when you're digging your mats out, lay one behind you and grab the next. Get on top and back out with the last one. You can walk them all back without risking getting stuck. All those passes you were making going back to grab the mats had me groaning lol. That field wasn't as bad as some of the swamps I've worked in, but it wasn't far off! It's a sinking feeling when you start to sink😆

It's great to have friends who have heavy equipment.

Our old family farm had a low flat field that we literally called the swamp. Beautiful black earth, always wet. My father had gotten permission to have a shovel take out some big rocks on the neighbors property that kept it from draining. Unfortunately they tried to take a shortcut back onto our land. When the surface sod broke his excavator almost disappeared. You could just see the top of the cab. It took two others to get him out. They cut about two dozen big maple trees to put under themselves to have a "solid" place to work from. The stuck one had a wide bucket and they grabbed on both sides of it. He was almost coming out of that hole vertically. About a four acre field and it was shaking like a bowl of jello. We never went near that field again.

What a mess! Glad everything is out on stable ground and no one was injured. 👍🇺🇲🙏😄

Man that was some serious stuck!! Thank you Craig for allowing the video.

I think he needs some new field tile great job guys

I know where there is a dozer and tractor/disk buried forever in the same kinda situation. Good job getting it out.Once I got a call to help, my backhoe wasn't gonna do any good considering there was already one out there with mud over the floor, and countless other tractors with logs chained to the rims and trucks on big swampers already out in the field. Luckily we are in south texas where its an oilfield boom town and hit up a bunch of companies for old work over rig cable, put it together about a miles worth with pole trucks and finally got everything out. Hell of a couple days.

Great video!! Thanks for bringing us along. That was bad stuck. 👍

A muddy mess but by a team effort you've got it done great video thanks Brandon and family and friends

What a mess. I'll bet that field is really productive in a dry year, but after all that it makes one wonder if it is worth the trouble. Great teamwork. Congrats.

Wow.....she's stuck, great recovery! Looked sketchy for a minute.👍👍👍🍻

great job un mucking the sprayer and the bucket. it is a astounding how badly stuck it was, and that you got it out! it is so bad in how fast you will get swallowed up by the nasty muck! so you put sand in that area to stop that from happening again. you are great friend to go out and help them out!

What a mess - I think you are lucky to have been able to recover that equipment from that swampy situation - appalling conditions!

In my area we have went from 80-100’ spacing of tile “where needed” to splitting those into 40-50’ lines and eventually pattern tiling the whole farm.

A few years ago Probably 20 we had two excavators stuck in wet conditions We dug a hole 15-20 feet away maybe 10 foot deep left it for a day and the water drained off into the hole allowing the surface to dry out a bit. Great video guy’s, glad you got them out

Wow that had me on the edge of my seat. It really looked like you were stuck for a minute there. I've been around muck, and that was sketchy. Great job guys.

WOW, what a mess!!!! Great operator's and big equipment saved the day👍👍👍👍

everything will get out, you just need brain and have to chill, like this dude! great job guys!

They say there is no use for hovercraft that float on a cushion of air over a field. I think this would be an ideal addition to some sprayer manufacturer's list of farming equipment that they could sell. That sprayer could hover over the field and stay above the mud problems, hovercraft have little to no issues at all with a slightly muddy patch as they're designed to float over such obstacles anyway.😃💡

Thanks for the video guys. Well that’s what bogged to the eyeballs looks like. 😂 Hopefully that doesn’t happen again or any time soon. Keep up the great work.

I love how when I'm doing stuff like this and there's 20 people standing around watching and everyone of them thinks they know how to do it better then you. They aggravate me to no end!

It's so good to have REALLY big toys ... Nice job!!!

When stuff happens it’s good to have friends with big toys!

Good job. Half dozen years ago north east of Hanna someone got a JD combine stuck in the muck From what i heard they were not as lucky on no damage 😳😳

Glad you got them out wow thanks for sharing

Awesome video and great recovery. Reminds me of a time when CFS got a sprayer stuck in one of our fields over by Bruce Lake in the muck. Kirk Ingram brought his excavator and spent 6 hours into the dark getting it out. Hats off to you.

Great job great video thanks Brandon and George and family

Good job,loved the in cab exsper.going to classes now to be a operator...thanks

I like playing in the mud twice as much as most people but this is ridiculous. With it being that wet, the sprayer can't be used for a couple of days anyhow. If it would have been drier there would not have been as many chunks of mat left in the field that will cause frustration and maybe even damage to planting and tillage equipment or even running a chunk of wood through a combine.

Up here in WNY Region farmers have been putting drainage lines in their fields on account of soft pits that swallow equipment. Now they have the fields already planted now. 2wks earlier than past. Costly yes, but the difference is still being able to farm ,without equipment sinking!!

Great job guys one thing that field needs is heavier mould drainage 😮😮

Holy Crow Brandon :) that something like happened in 2008 in my area when working with my cousins Heavy Duty Equipment when take trees out for house going be built in near Lake Ontario west of Port Hope Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 ! All most machinery got stuck in and we had lots logs with tons skids put machinery in track of dozer plus backhoe out plus my tow truck and float trailer with 2 wrenches tow lines ! Used the biggest hoe to yank and each dozer and small plus hoe then wood chipper ! That was long 3 days to do and afterwards had wait for dry up 3 month's before foundation be pour in to ! Funniest part well drilling fast 100 feet get done loads water for years ahead too ! Thanks for the Summer Season Weather was hot 🔥 with lots humidity to dry up on 2800 square feet foundation of house too to dry up on ! Hopefully does same hear to for all too !

Most of us quit playing in the mud when we were children! I'm glad I don't have to work the ground when it dries!!!

WOW Brandon I have never seen a worse mud mess than this!!!😮 I was afraid you were going to get stuck also.

The sprayer was like I don't know how many Excavators its going to take....but i know how many they are going to use😳

Hail to the men of labour! My father (who`s still alive today, God bless him!) was a farmer in the past, and all my childhood and youth were spent in the fields. What happened with tis Cobelco? Is this field was a dried swamp in the past or so? With best wishes from Russia.

Boy what a mess. Thank you farmers for all you do.

That's some crazy muck . My uncle's farm was just like that till they put tile every 20 feet. It was nasty stuff. Firm on top then fall through and your done.

Good job on bad ground, if they can get the water away they need a tile drain plan sooner than later. With the sprayer one needs to take great care when pulling, it is easy to pull one of those in half :-(

I guess the bright side on this is that it didn't seem like anything got torn up. Keep up the good work.

Great team work !

That sucks. Good to have family n friends with big equipment

Regular old soup hole, when i buried my IHI 175 track loader a guy came down with a JD 325 and plucked it out the creek like it was a toy canoe. After that i bougt a 110 JD excavator and its surprised at the power it had when i stuck the loader again though, wasnt as easy as the 325 but hooked the bucket and it helped it pull itself. Both times was a rotten stump collapsed with soup dirt under it

You wouldn’t have to tear up their sprayer if they wouldn’t have gotten it stuck in the mud 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Great recovery video

Man...the perils of farming never end. Guess we missed the final pull on that excavator?

Great job and team effort. I own a Kobelco sk150lc and every time I get in that stuff, I get a little nervous. Luckily, I have not sunk mine yet and hopefully never will.

Ha I used to build those case sprayers here in Minnesota at the benson assembly plant, and they are big heavy pigs and I’m not surprised to see one buried!

don’t look good for them on planting that spot this year , w how deep and as many holes are out there now , least the machines are all out n safe , good job brother 👌🤘🤘

I love this channel. The most exciting content on UKposts!

That'll be a nice smooth field to till.

I have a Kobelco 330. I been stuck in muskeg as well. If you can keep the cab out and the engine running.... Well 3 foot round and 20 foot long wood you can go any where. We have loss equipment and lives in that muskeg it is no place for a green horn.

Nothing like farming on quick sand

You can hear in your voice that not the excavator only is working. Thanks for sharing

Fantastic recovery. Time for TILE in the swamp. Thanks

Reminds me of peat bogs no bottom... seen this in happen in Southern WI jet black loam soil zero bottom...

Just found your channel on YT, what a great recovery!

First thing is to make a RIDICULOUS MESS OF THE FIELD. Lol. Second is to get machines out. Third is go home & have a beer round with the crew who helped.

Looks like that field needs a Dirt Prefect drainage system installed to drain it better.

Looks like that field needs tile. God bless

Just build a matting road so you have fighting chance of getting them onto something solid.

The field is good and plowed now for next plant!

That was a great video. Lot of hard work but the pros got them out.

Dig that out and make a pond there with drainage piped going to it, then in summer use the water.

That field need a whole new drainage system. You could see the ground shaking like jelly at one stage

What a mud fest. NOW STAY OUTTA THERE TILL IT DRIES UP SOME!!!!

Great job boyz. U guys have some nice toys !!! Great teamwork !!!!

Looks like Louisiana swamp land. Didn't know one could farm on quicksand.

That's so many machines & time that you might ought to dig out the sediment in all of your ditches so that more of that water can be off the prize-land.

It is amazing how you guys are movig at all. Nlce job guys

Need to build a pond at the low point in that field. Drain tiles to the pond from the field to the pond.

Why do some people just keep driving on into trouble 🙄 good job on the recovery 👏

Your right about one thing you never know what you're going to see on your videos that's why I like them

Where abouts in the US are you guys located? That looks some seriously rich soil but jeez them fields must need miles & miles & miles of drainage tile.

I’m really wondering why the sprayer operator drove into that mess… i know I certainly wouldn’t have even thought about going into that with my sprayer or tractor or half ton or quad…

WOW. 3” . We hardly got a sprinkle down by Indy .

I think a little more digging right of the getgo and ramp down to the tracks then the climb out on the mats wont be so steep! Just my 2 cents you cant ever have enough mats! And use that bucket to DIG!

We use to have a Hitachi 750 it didn't last long maybe 4 months it was the slowest and under powered machine we replaced it with a cat 385 we also have a few Komatsu which are nice machines

Another 2 feet deeper and it's technically a pond.

At 21:22 was that piece of field tile on top of the mat?

🎶 BOB the builder can we fix it 🎶 🎶 BOB the builder yes we can 🎶 🎉🎉🎉

Great video and a tip of the hat to the editor 👍.

I mud bog for fun, and one thing i learned in Mi and Oh......never underestimate the bottomless depth of a farmers field

Trust me here in our fields in Montana with 3 inches of rain you couldn’t drive with an excavator even after 3 days of sunshine you’d be sliding tracks in one spot (gumbo dirt)

Planting on that looks about as difficult as frying eggs on soup

Nice work gentleman

Good one, i see this was last year, How long did it take the field to dry out, As well as did they ever get the ruts and holes filled it, Overall that was a Mess no doubt. 1st watch of channel.

I was there,laying mats and tighting my grip on the arm of the chair,,and i added a little pedel work,and we did it..nice sloppy recovery..lol

That sucks.and gotta fix the field after

I’m assuming that this is part of the area that was the Grand Kankakee Marsh. That’s some mud for sure.

Is that drainage tile pipe flopping around in the mud when you were digging out the swamp mats?

seriously needs to dig drains around that field

Next time just leave the sprayer in the field till it dries out..but hey it makes a good video 😅

Maybe Santa will bring the farm owner a bunch of field tile for Christmas, doubt he will install it though, that's asking a lot for a bunch of very old reindeer. Guess I wrote too early, saw a piece sticking up, later in the video.

Man that soil structure is just ruined isn't it. Would the field take some tile draining?

Looks like the ideal spot for a pond 😂

Geez!! Amateurs…🙄 ‘ya all’ got there in the end but geez…a mess! 🙄

And we still ain't got sprayer out😅

A little playing in the mud. Always nice😎

Much easier and safer for the wellbeing of the sprayer to have pulled it out backwards. It's a good job that it is structurally strong - many pieces of equipment would have been trashed by pulling them with two excavators sideways when buried like that. I guess you had reasons to do it like that, but it certainly didn't look to be the best method...