STUCK and TROUBLED

Ken Christopherson

Well-known Member
Hello all! Well, I figured I would share with you my lovely adventure that I had this last weekend. Was messing around in the back yard, which much of is part wetland... Looks like with all the rain the water creeped in a little further than normal. We just moved into this property in March, so I am learning a little about it day by day. Thought to myself I could get one more push of brush and dirt down in there. Boy was I WRONG! Had her buried up to the drawbar and oil pan. Tried using the JD A to get it out. Nothing. Tried the Super M. Nothing. Called a friend with a Bobcat T200 trackloader. It took everything that trackloader had to get it out, but eventually did...

Moral of the story... When you have that gut feeling, STICK with it, or you'll be STUCK with the consequences! (LOL)

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I walk places I am dubious about being wet. If I can't walk on it I stay out of it. I then stay out of some places even if I can walk on it.
 
Now what you do is find a small tarp to bungee over the hood. Find an open spot put it in reverse crank the wheels one direction or the other. Pinch down on the coresponding brake and pull the throttle to as near as wide open as you can stand. Merry go round that mud right out of the front wheels. Used to do it with our Farmalls back on the farm all the time. Although we didn?t worry about the tarp just trying to minimize what was going to fly onto you. Which often times was manure. Lol.
 
Had my M stuck more than once. It will dig in far enough the tractor ends up sitting on the drawbar and then your done.
 
Too bad someone had cut the long axles off. This is the method my Dad would use on the IH SC, (Note, I am not suggesting anyone to do this). He would take 2 long chains, put two wraps around the outside rear axle and hook the end into the rear wheel weight and hook the other end of the chains to a tree or another tractor that was shut off in first gear and brakes locked then he would start the SC and and depending if he had to pulled forward or reverse put the SC in 1st or Rev and let it roll up the chains on the axles and winch itself out. Sometimes he would have to work the brakes to keep the wheels pulling even. Those NFE can be a problem in mud or snow as the mud or snow will just push in front of them and the wheels will not turn.

JimB
 
been there before with both H's and M's. There's another trick to try next time, chain a small log or strong board across the tire at 90 degrees down at the ground, slip the clutch real slow and lift yourself out. we had a stretch of swampy ground that you could drive over if we had a long dry spell, unless you went in the same tracks more than once then you'd break through and be buried.
 
That's also a great way to kill yourself. You can be as careful as you want, but all it takes is one muddy boot slipping off the clutch pedal, or a moment of bad judgement, or a 70 year old tractor drivetrain failing at just the wrong moment, to end up eating that board chained to the tractor tire, or to have the tractor fulfilling a Yakov Smirnof joke: "In America, you sit on tractor. In Soviet Union, tractor sit on you!"
 
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
I don't dig myself down as deep as I used too. I now get help sooner than later.
My son hates driving tractors, but he will help me out.
I also have a winch now.
Although, tractor ruts can be used to bury fish.
 

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