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My own version of Your Going to do what with that Tractor

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Gibby

03-10-2001 05:56:15

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As two two younger gentlemen were back filling my the basement to the new house, it seems that Bobcat 1 slipped off the edge into the trench - up against the side of the fresh basement wall. I guess figuring Bobcats could do anything, Bobcat 2 appearantly tried to pull Bobcat 1 out of the trench - for which he failed terribily - up to his axles/undercarrage. When I got there Bobcat 2 was trying inch himself back to the drive way with his bucket - a slow process and was tearing up everything in it's path. After talking to the two "operators" they informed my that they had called to get the companies bulldozer out the pull them out. I told them I had a tractor and we could probably save a lot of time if I tried. They both told me that there was no way tractor would pull them out. So I quietly walked in the equipment barn and picked up my heavy chain (walking past my JD) and jumped up on Bertha (My Farmall 300) and fired her up. Bertha must have been watching out of the window of the equipment barn, she fired up with only a half turn of the flywheel - with no choke!! By the way the wheel weights I had just put on, hadn't even had a chance to harden the paint yet. As I backed up to Bobcat 2 The "boy" started to laugh and informed me that we were going have a triple header - three stuck pieces of equipment. Never the less, we hooked up and I put the old girl in first with the TA on. To say Bertha did it with ease is a little bit streching it. But she did pull him out and I don't think she broke to much of a sweat. With Bobcat Operator two humbled, I turned my attention to Bobcat 1, he had her running already and was standing there waiting for the chain. Bertha really had to work on this one!! While controling wheel slipage with the brakes, the old girl pulled her guts out and slowly Bobcat 1 came creeping out. Pictures will be supplied as soon as my wife has them developed ( she had the digital camera and I could only find a cheap throw away to use)..

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Dick (IL)

03-10-2001 15:57:21

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Re: My own version of Your Going to do what with that Tractor in reply to Gibby, 03-10-2001 05:56:15

Seventeen years ago when we were still living on the old home place, my oldest daughter had a high school girlfriend who had just bought her first car, a nice '70 Caprice. One morning soon after, the girlfriend stopped at our place to pick my daughter up for a ride to school. We all know how two giggly girls can sometimes forget what's going on around them, and that is what happened to my daughter's girlfriend. She backed out of our driveway, right in the ditch across the road.
That ditch is a deep one and the Caprice was stuck good, the frame was down on the asphalt, the rear wheels were hanging suspended, not touching a thing. Not wanting to do any damage to my old Dodge truck's transmission I headed for the shed. Of the three tractors in the shed, a 450 Farmall, an Oliver 88 and my Case 500 diesel, the Case required the least amount of effort to start and get out of the shed. It started right off and I headed for the road. In low gear, throttle just cracked that Case dragged that Caprice up on solid footing with little effort.
And off to school they went.

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kev@ia

03-10-2001 11:57:28

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Re: My own version of Your Going to do what with that Tractor in reply to Gibby, 03-10-2001 05:56:15

Good one! How much did they take off the bill for you extracting them from the mess they made? kev

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Dick

03-10-2001 08:58:52

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Re: My own version of Your Going to do what with that Tractor in reply to Gibby, 03-10-2001 05:56:15

When I was a kid we were out in the country and came upon a guy in the ditch. We had no chain, so my dad took the top row of the fence and gently pulled him out, so if someone noticed part of his fence was gone, we were guilty.Dick

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Bob M

03-10-2001 08:14:25

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Re: My own version of Your Going to do what with that Tractor in reply to Gibby, 03-10-2001 05:56:15

Gibby - good one! Here's a somewhat related (though non-tractor) incident that happened to me during a blizzard a couple years ago.

Came upon a guy in a 1/2 ton Chevy 4x4 who'd slid off the road into the ditch - was bellied out in the snow and had no traction. I offered him a pull with my wife's beat-up '84 Plymouth Voyager but the guy just laughed. But after thinking a minute he figured (correctly) he had nothing to loose. So we hooked a log chain to his bumper hitch, then my 20,000 lb rated tow strap to the chain and hooked the strap to the minivan's hitch. Got about a 10' running start with the little van - the strap tightened and stretched, then PU popped backward out of the snowbank enough to gain traction.

I declined the guy's sheepish offer of $20 for the "service" - figured it was worth more than that just to have had such a delightful experience to tell my friends...

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Dave 2N

03-10-2001 07:27:03

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Re: My own version of Your Going to do what with that Tractor in reply to Gibby, 03-10-2001 05:56:15

As I've said about these situations before, you don't have to convince me. I was brought up on an M and know what they can do. I love this kind of stuff. Waiting for the pictures.....

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Charlie

03-10-2001 07:26:20

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Re: My own version of Your Going to do what with that Tractor in reply to Gibby, 03-10-2001 05:56:15

I think a lot of people think of a usefull tractor as one having a cab, 8 wheels and a couple hundred gallon fuel tank. A lot of people can't imagine those great old tractors doing anything more than idling in a parade somewhere. It is a shame you got mud on your new paint.

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