Use Lime on Wet Grass/Mud to get unstuck?
Years ago, I used to work for a ready mix concrete co. When it rained, The mixers were required to carry a couple of sacks of lime with them in case they got stuck on a muddy jobsite. Usually, the...
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I call shenanigans on this lime myth.
Dad drove ready mix trucks for several years before I was born. He never heard of this lime trick.
After I was born he bought a small dairy farm. We had lime trucks on the farm almost every year to balance the pH levels in fields as they needed it. The trucks would inevitably go somewhere they shouldn't and get stuck. Not once did they ever get themselves out by throwing lime in the hole. We always had to pull them out with a tractor, sometimes two.
Every day we would sprinkle lime along the backs of the stalls to neutralize the residue from the cow's "leavings." When that got a little moisture in it, it made a paste that was slick as snot.
As for carrying a bag of lime with you... It's dusty, gets everywhere. Burns when you get it in your nose and eyes. There are a LOT of much less obtrusive things you could carry along with you to get yourself out of a jam that take up less space.
Dad drove ready mix trucks for several years before I was born. He never heard of this lime trick.
After I was born he bought a small dairy farm. We had lime trucks on the farm almost every year to balance the pH levels in fields as they needed it. The trucks would inevitably go somewhere they shouldn't and get stuck. Not once did they ever get themselves out by throwing lime in the hole. We always had to pull them out with a tractor, sometimes two.
Every day we would sprinkle lime along the backs of the stalls to neutralize the residue from the cow's "leavings." When that got a little moisture in it, it made a paste that was slick as snot.
As for carrying a bag of lime with you... It's dusty, gets everywhere. Burns when you get it in your nose and eyes. There are a LOT of much less obtrusive things you could carry along with you to get yourself out of a jam that take up less space.
