stuck and troubled

What is the worst you have been stuck,in mud or whatever. I have had my share,requiring a large heavy duty winch truck to get me out.Worst was with a 1370 case buried near a lake with the possibility of heavy rain,which could cover the tractor.

The Misses (than girlfriend) and I got my car stuck in a field once,had to get my cousin to tow us out,not going to say why we were there thou thought lolol.

Without going into long details, I worked for a neighbor one summer when I was in high school.

We had a field of plowed ground that had been flooded, and after it was somewhat dry I went out to pull some machinery back to the farmyard. I made one trip out and back OK. The second trip, I wound up with a 44 Massey laying on its belly in the mud. It was too far out into the field to get too close with another tractor, so we rounded up the two biggest tow trucks in the county, kept one on solid ground for an anchor and ventured out on the field with the other to hook onto the tractor with the winch.

Then, using the winches on both tow trucks, we winched the whole schiess out of the field.

My boss had buck teeth, and from the way he held his mouth, the more p----d he got, the more prominent his buck teeth appeared. His buck teeth were sticking out before that day was over!.

Was helping a guy with harvest, fall of 1982. He was southeast of Sioux City, Iowa, in the flat. I was not allowed to run the combine (long story), so was on wagon duty. It was muddy, so he tells me not to stop in the mud! Anyway, he waves me over to him, he has stopped on the drive, I am in the field. He unloads, and buries that wagon to the axels! I was in the 4040, he goes home to get the 4430. Barely got out! He never mentioned the mud again! Greg

Not with a tractor, but was the most stuck and troubled I have ever been. This was miles out on Lake of the Woods a few years ago.

Spring of 88 the first year renting this one farm . This farm had not been plowed in 35 plus years and was use as free range cattle . This farm layed just a little way south of where the glacier stopped , Bit hilly but not to bad had nice long flat area next to the creek with close to twelve acres in it another 12 acres sorta flat for this part of the country a 24 acre flat field a ten acre field that was on a slight hillside AND then there was that six acres on a slight hill side with a grass water way. I had a 706 gasser and a set of 710 4 bottoms . From all the years of cattle being on it it was hard plowing and the first time that i ever has the ft. weight bracket full of 100 lb weights plus i had two 150 lb wheel weights hanging from a chain on the ft. The 706 was a narrow ft and with that much weight one soft spot and she was gone . I had a lot of trouble plowing because of it being so hard most of it was done in 2nd low with the T/A getting a real work out and with the ft. end two to three feet off the ground alot . All that was left was the 6 acres and i had maybe seven or eight more round to go and had not had a problem with the water way not so much as a trace of wetness . As i came up on the water way i lifted the ft of the plow and was just getting ready to lift the back as the ft wheels got out on to the water way and i backed out of the throttle and looked at the ft end to see if it was going to go down or go across , the ft. end started up the other side as i brought up the back of the plow and all of a sudden the ground just went out from under the tractor both side straight down . The plow was in over the top of the mold boards to the third bottom the platform was level with the ground , The tail wheel was better then a foot off the ground . Not a speck of mud on th tires . All i had at the time was my 3/4 ton 4x4 Ford a chain and a set of tire chains . Went and got a friend to help and we tryed with the pick up . That did not work . So went to another friend that had a fancy 1086 with new radials including suals ( He had money and was not affaid to spend it as he bought 4 brand new radials .) so he comes down with more chain and he tryed for a couple hours and we got nowhere , went over to a neighboring farmer that i did not know all that well but he had a 4840 . Well like all good farmers he came over to help and he told me that in all of his 6o years he has never seen anything like that . With the two tractor we never shook it we could not get the plows unhooked . So we gave up on that deal and i made a call to another friend and went and borrowed one of his dozers with a winch . It was a JD 550 and figured that it would get the job done. Not , After breaking the winch line twice i took it back and came back with the 750 JD with the hyster w6f winch and 1 1/8th cable on it . Figured that it was going to come out in one big piece or lots of little pieces . I had to set the dozer in by setting the blade down and spinning the tracks in to build up dirt behind the tracks and make deep holes to hold it . It did come out in one big piece with out any damage . The only thing that i can to this day figure out is that a auger hole from when they were mining coal up on the upper part of the farm had collapsed . While i had the 750 i filled in the hole and in all the time that i farmed the place never had any problems with it . Back then i did not have a camera to get pictures of that one But to all that did see it they all just shook there heads .

I was venturing across some ice that was where we dug out topsoil to fill in for a shed with our 1755 w/loader on it.

The front tire broke through the ice and the pin that holds the axel tubes together broke. The axle was folded under the tractor. Left it sit until the neighbor came out a month or so later and pulled it out with a payloader.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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Got a field cultivator stuck one time,so deep they were eating with chopsticks

the worst ive ever been stuck was with a ford 2000 loader tractor and it was due to a gopher, the little bugger dug a tunnel from the roping arena to the irrigation ditch and flooded the arena, i was going to just scoup out the mud and replace it with dry dirt, i hit the middle and the tractor sunk the front end all the way to the oil pan, i could lift it up with the bucket, but as the rear was still in mud it wouldnt move, i got a minny mo jetstar3 which happened to be handy as well as larger and tried to pull the ford out, it stood the minny mo up on its hind wheels and i almost bought the farm, i finally got the ford out after 9 hours of jacking and placing timbers under the wheels , moving the length of the wood and doing it over again, not fun!

Close here but no cigar. That's why I have three tractors! Now if I get all three stuck I shouldn't have been there to start with. David........

Had 2 bad situations that I got mired down in. First one was about 15 years ago. I had went to a job interview at a dairy farm in Capac Michigan. After I left the farm I saw there was a Deere dealer in town. I pulled in the lot and after looking at the equipment, noticed they had a pile of parts tractors out back. I drove my 80 Cutlass Supreme out behind the building to get a better look for parts. Well it just so happened it was wetter than heck and the car sunk down to the frame. I was scared I might get in trouble for being out back, and it was getting late and I had a 3 hour drive home that night. I went looking around and found they had left all their load binding chains on the semi over night so I went looking for a tractor to borrow. I found a Deere 2350 that had the keys in it so I fired it up and hooked up to the Cutlass. Even with the Cutlass in nuetral it wouldn't budge and the 2350 sat there spinning. When I unhooked the chain the 2350 wouldn't even pull itself out. So I went snooping around the lot again. This time I found a 8870 with the keys in it yet( this dealership was brave). So after borrowing another chain from the semi, I hooked to the 2350 to get it out if the way. Once it was gone, I pulled the Cutlass out like it wasn't even hooked up. I put the tractors back and used a hydrant on the side of the dealership to wash the chains up a bit. I put everything back and left a letter on the door explaining and thanking them, and then signed a fake name,lol. It took me a good hour right at dusk and no one ever stopped to see what was going on.
The other time was when working at a dairy in Shelby Michigan. I was using a 2+2 pulling a 4500 gallon liquid spreader. We were spreading out of the slurrystore and hauling it about 6 miles from the farm. I had run about a dozen loads that day and as I got to the east side of the field found a wet spot that had never been there before. I got into it and the 2+2 sunk in a good foot. I stopped and emptied the tanker before trying to keep going. I tried crawling out but within 10 foot it had the tractor setting on the rails. I knew it would be a long walk back to the farm so I unhooked the tanker. I managed to crabwalk the tractor out but it was sure throwing some mud to get it out. I took the tractor back to the farm to get chains. By the time it was all over with it took the 2+2 and a 4840 to get that tank out on solid ground.