[AT] Continuing "What to do"

[Cecil R Bearden]

In Dennis'  defense, this Oklahoma mud is really something else.    It 
is about as sticky as super glue and as slick as greased owl S**T !   ( 
My Dad's favorite expression ).  You can get stuck in a truck with mud 
grip tires in as little as 2 inches of this stuff.    It is a very 
sticky and slick clay.  To drive in our mud, you have to have aggressive 
tire tread and enough power to spin the mud out to take another bite 
when the tire comes around again.   A friend has a pickup with a high 
speed rear end but with only a 350 engine, and it cannot spin the mud 
out of the tires.

On a tractor, the mud will build up in front of the front tires and then 
stick you.  If you put any load in the bucket, the tires will sink.  You 
have to keep moving fast enough over the ground to stay on top of the 
mud.  When it dries, you need a pick and hammer to get it loose.  When 
you wash the last of it you need a detergent to loosen the last film 
that is left.
If I park a truck on a dry place and it sits without moving for a year, 
it is down to the axle.  If I park it on boards to hold it up,  it lasts 
another year.  We have to design foundations with piers down as much as 
6 to 8 ft to hit a shale layer.   My house was built in 1985 when I was 
not really familiar with this soil, and has a conventional 12 x 18 
footing with no piers.  It was also poured monolithic.  It has sunk 
nearly 4 inches in the 30 years since it was built.  That is an entire 
structure 34 x 66ft and functions as a solid slab!

Just FYI about the mud in most of OKla.

Cecil in oKla



On 1/12/2016 8:19 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 1/12/2016 1:01 AM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
>> Ralph, Larry,
>>
>> Maybe I need to practice being stuck more to develop that. Tried it 
>> earlier without a lot of success.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dennis
> Hope this picture is not too big for the list. I took it last June 
> while filling in a muddy crossing with sand. Loose sand on
> top of mud and water so the Massey sunk almost to the front axle as I 
> pushed into it with the bucket. I thought it was
> worth a picture before getting backed out of there using the bucket.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>>
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