Stuck A Few Years Ago

rusty6 · Jan 15, 2019

While looking for something else I found this picture of my old Super 90 stuck in the mud. Spring thaw and the ground had really softened up more than I realized as I carried a bale to the feeder. Front end dropped to the axle. Those skinny 7.50x18s sliced right through the mud. 2090 Case had it out in no time. Spring of 2011.

lee little · Jan 15, 2019

Its been that way in Tn. all fall and winter !

Bob · Jan 15, 2019

WHY didn't you just drop the bale and push yourself out with the loader, that's what I would have had to to.

You never mention anyone else out there on the tundra with you, but there must be someone, if you have the luxury of an assistant to pull you out!

Or you pulled it out by yourself, unmanned, just for the drama?

Adirondack case guy · Jan 15, 2019

Geeze Bob, He didn't post more on getting it out, just preparing to hopefully pull it out.
Don't under estimate the pulling power of a Case 2090. HeHe
Loren

rusty6 · Jan 15, 2019

(quoted from post at 19:16:08 01/15/19) Geeze Bob, He didn't post more on getting it out, just preparing to hopefully pull it out.
Don't under estimate the pulling power of a Case 2090. HeHe
Loren

Help is only a phone call away but I'm the independent type that is so used to doing it myself I rarely call. Some would be amazed or shocked at some of the things I've done. And using the loader to push the Massey out was not an option as I had the bale spear on. No bucket. I pulled that Massey out of the mud with the 2090 with no problem.

Paul from MI · Jan 15, 2019

When I was 15 getting stuck in the mud or snow was great sport. At 75, not so much!! Maybe you should move that bale feeder or invest in some crane mats?

Brendon Warren · Jan 15, 2019

Still beats rolling them by hand!

JWA · Jan 15, 2019

Sure has in the west end of the state. I'm about tired of it. What part of the state of the state are you in?

Billy NY · Jan 15, 2019

That is the most noticeable feature of narrower front tires in soft ground. Even more fun sometimes with a tractor with non live pto, no O.R.C., mower running, run into soft ground, forward motion does not stop until the back tires are now where the front ones just were. Done that a several times, all but one, loader got me out without too much hassle. Last time was bit worse, it bottomed out where it was a little deeper. Could not pull it out, eventually used a small diameter black cherry tree and chain hoist rigged to it, came right out after things dried up, during the usual annual dry spell.

At least you did not churn the back wheels in like many often do when fooling with a stuck tractor.

rusty6 · Jan 15, 2019

(quoted from post at 19:42:08 01/15/19)

At least you did not churn the back wheels in like many often do when fooling with a stuck tractor.

Its rare to drop a tractor that deep , that fast here. I knew right away there was no way out of it so no point spinning the rear tires down. This was at the point where the snow was gone and most of the field was firm enough to drive. Those who keep cattle will know that around straw/manure/snowpack, it takes a lot longer to melt or firm up. I'd been going along fine til I got near the edge of the manure ring and with no warning it dropped.

MF#1 · Jan 15, 2019

Been there twice this year. It's amazing how mushy the cows can make the ground around feeders! Of course it didn't help that we had the most rain on record last year. :-(

olgentdc · Jan 15, 2019

my neighbor done that to a 65 MF and broke the front casting under
the motor, that was 45 yrs ago.

Geo-TH,In · Jan 16, 2019

My neighbor wanted me to make a rear ballast for his Massey. He
said his front wheels would do the same as yours, go down in the
mud.

I estimate 55 gallons of concrete is about 1200#.

The concrete is approximately the same distance behind the rear
wheels as the bale of hay is in front of the front wheels.

BarnyardEngineering · Jan 16, 2019

Yup, and that will just ensure you're good and stuck, and have no hope of just simply hooking a chain to it and pulling it out backwards by yourself.

David G · Jan 16, 2019

I generally stick a bale on the back first if in doubt or icy, tends to balance tractor out.

rusty6 · Jan 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 06:35:14 01/16/19) I generally stick a bale on the back first if in doubt or icy, tends to balance tractor out.

Not an option here for this tractor as it has no three point hitch. And getting stuck with that tractor is a rare occurrence. Its why I took the picture. If it was a problem I'd be looking for a better method of moving bales but 99% of the time this one is all I need.

DRussell · Jan 16, 2019

I've watched several of your videos and based on them and the pictures you've posted you do a nice job of maintaining your equipment and keeping it looking nice.

1130Leo · Jan 16, 2019

My neighbor has a ballast like that on the back of his loader tractor, good thing he does, he was hit by a car from the rear, while he was way over on the shoulder by the way. Anyways, had he not had that barrel full of concrete on the back, he would have likely been killed, the car hit the barrel, and the rear wheel of the tractor, broke the axle, but no one seriously hurt. Still no explanation from the driver as to why he hit the tractor.... scary day that was.

Geo-TH,In · Jan 16, 2019

What kind of damage did the car have?

Geo-TH,In · Jan 16, 2019

Bob,
When I get stuck with dirt in front bucket, I'll lift the wheels out by applying downforce and slide out on the bucket.

Or if that doesn't work, drop the dirt and push out with front bucket. If that doesn't work, use the backhoe and pull myself out.

Never had to have backhoe pulled out.

Bob · Jan 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 15:36:06 01/16/19) Bob,
When I get stuck with dirt in front bucket, I'll lift the wheels out by applying downforce and slide out on the bucket.

Or if that doesn't work, drop the dirt and push out with front bucket. If that doesn't work, use the backhoe and pull myself out.

Never had to have backhoe pulled out.

George, as (almost) always, I agree with you 100%.

But taking care of our own business doesn't run up our "post count", or (more important to roosty) his Youtube hit counter.

rusty6 · Jan 16, 2019

Never had to have backhoe pulled out.

George, as (almost) always, I agree with you 100%.
But taking care of our own business doesn't run up our "post count", or (more important to roosty) his Youtube hit counter.[/quote]ttps://forumphotos.yesterdaystractors.com/photos/mvphoto29961.jpg[/img]

showcrop · Jan 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 13:36:06 01/16/19) Bob,
When I get stuck with dirt in front bucket, I'll lift the wheels out by applying downforce and slide out on the bucket.

Or if that doesn't work, drop the dirt and push out with front bucket. If that doesn't work, use the backhoe and pull myself out.

Never had to have backhoe pulled out.

Yes George, but how about when you have no bucket, just a bale spear as Roosty already told us?

showcrop · Jan 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 19:16:08 01/15/19) Geeze Bob, He didn't post more on getting it out, just preparing to hopefully pull it out.
Don't under estimate the pulling power of a Case 2090. HeHe
Loren

Actually Loren He did in his first post tell you that the 2090 pulled it right out.

showcrop · Jan 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 06:29:48 01/16/19) Yup, and that will just ensure you're good and stuck, and have no hope of just simply hooking a chain to it and pulling it out backwards by yourself.

Yes, barnyard that will happen now and then, but for each time that it does there are probably forty times when some ballast in the rear enables the rears to push the front and its load right on through a poor traction spot. That works for me and tens of thousands of others who ballast the rear wheels of their tractors.

formenwhogrow · Jan 16, 2019

That's why you move the feeders around every time you feed

. Helps with this sort of thing.....

rusty6 · Jan 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 21:10:50 01/16/19) That's why you move the feeders around every time you feed . Helps with this sort of thing.....

Mine stay where they are all winter. If it starts to get too muddy in spring I will sometimes move them to high ground where its dry. But our ground is frozen solid from November to April most winters so its not a problem til spring thaw.

MF#1 · Jan 17, 2019

Oh yeah, they get moved. This was from a one-time feeding. Shows how muddy the ground was.

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