Re: What's the stuckest you've ever been?
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Posted by Randy Putz (rms) on June 18, 1998 at 11:39:48:
In Reply to: What's the stuckest you've ever been? posted by Keith on June 16, 1998 at 13:27:34:
: I was about 14 (part of the problem) when I got stuck. I was disking with a cab equipped IH 966. The window was dirty and I was driving into the evening sun. It was hard to see and it was my first pass down the field. I got the tractor so stuck that the underside of the tractor was resting on the ground.
: My uncle wanted to beat me to death (he didn't). We broke chain after chain. We pulled it out with 2 JD 4430s. Okay I read some of these storys, and there all good, and I dought I can compete, but here is my "true" tail, I was about 15 yrs. old and my father put me to work on our brand new Ford 4000 attached to a rotory tiller, Our farm was in the Fraser Valley area, which once was Lake Sumas, but was drained to make way for farming,any how the ground is always a bit moist and soft, I was rotor-tilling away, and drove to close to the creek, ( hey here a story for the stuck in the creek piece) and that got me stuck good and proper! My father came out with our little 8N, but it got stuck too! then over to the neibours to borrow his Case tractor, but it could only get the little N tractor out. Now my father, who was a Army tank mechanic stationed and CFB Chilliwack, which was only a short few miles from our farm, and the neibour with the Case tractor was his commanding officer, they decided what was needed was a Tank recovery unit, so off ta the base they went, arriving a short time later with this harge crane like towtruck rigging. they parked it on hard dry ground and swung the turret and extendable boom out over to the stuck tractor, and it lifted the whole machine with the tiller still hooked on, and placed in on hard ground like a gaint hand! Now that was impressive to see as a young kid of 15!
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