Super C Saved The Day!!

Well long story long, today I was out back spreading horse manure. I usually spread it in the neighbors field out back. Well, for the last few weeks, we've had non stop rain here in Michigan. The ground has never really got too soft out in the field, like it does up by the barn after a lot of rain. I have a certain path that I usually spread on, but today for whatever reason, I decided to run along the edge of the field that butts up to our land. All was going good, until the old M dropped like a rock about a foot into the ground. It was one of those moments you just knew you weren't going to walk out of easy. I tried backing back out onto the harder ground, but with the fully loaded manure spreader, it just spun tires and didn't move. My only option was foward. I tried to just drive through it, and made it about 15-20 feet, and it just dug itself down further. By this point, I was almost late for work, and the only tractor I had near me was my Super C, so I walked over, hopped onto it, and drove out into the field. I had little faith in the tiny little SC even budging the big ol M and spreader, but I hooked a chain to it anyways, got onto some solid ground, and gave her a yank while my Uncle drove the M, and it yanked it right out like it was nothing! Sure wish I had my camera on me at the time, but I had to just grab some "after" pictures instead. So I grabbed some shots of the ground, the little SC that could, and the big ol M and spreader. Notice how the ground up by the barn is...and they're calling for more rain all week...awesome!!

Nice solid ground..that all of the sudden turned to quick mud.



Front tires just dug and dug and dug.



Water almost instantly came up from the ground.









Tried backing out of it, front tires just knifed themselves deeper, probably the weight of the loader off the front.



The Super C that saved the day!!





The M that could...'nt

Most people know enough to stay out of the soft
fields, those ruts will be hard to smooth out!

(quoted from post at 20:56:01 05/02/11) Most people know enough to stay out of the soft
fields, those ruts will be hard to smooth out!

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That's the thing, I spread in that field every day lol..and have never had an issue. I just went along the tree line this time, which appeared to be just as dry as the rest of where I spread, and turns out it wasn't!

I love our Super C...it constantly amazes me! If I can only take one tractor to a pull (STOCK) it is the Super C and a whole stack of weights...just keep adding weights and being competitive!
Similar amazing story not involving a Super C but another amazing machine: Was plowing with our JD 70 gas and 55 3-14 JD plow, rears loaded and one set of weights so #7500 of tractor plus whatever the plow weighs and my fat azzzz, Condenser cooked half way down the field, used the starter to raise the plow, was waiting for a tractor big enough to pull me out when the plow day"s coordinator"s wife pulled up in her Kubota RTV and told me sha was gonna pull me to the edge of the field...YEAH RIGHT! LOL well she did, tractor, plow and me accross plowed ground, through the hedge, down the rail road bed rip rap access road right to my truck. Keep sayin" we are gonna reenact on video as an ad for Kubota!

Had kind of a similar disaster when I stuck my 800 Ford and tow type brush hog in a beaver run that they'd made over winter. I went through the skim ice on the frozen ground. Walked back to the house and got my only other running tractor, the Cockshutt 30. Hitched a chain to the brush hog a made sure the Ford was in neutral. Crazy old Cockshutt pulled them out like nothing! No chains, no loaded tires, nuthin'. Amazing.

If I were spreadin with a loader bucket on the front, I would put the bucket about an inch off'n the ground, then when you see it pushin mud, you know you're sinkin.