Posted by the tractor vet on November 22, 2021 at 09:58:51 from (108.220.145.239):
In Reply to: Buried farm machinery posted by Charlie M on November 22, 2021 at 06:33:35:
Well don't know about the rest of the world but sofar in my life time i have PLANTED A FEW and also been on the HARVESTING CREW getting them out . Now do you want and itemized list ranging back 65 years?????? With some being of top U/Tube quality but happened when the only thing normal people had to shot pictures were like a Brownie camera . With working excavating , oil field, and coal hauling , Farming Yea we have seen STUFF PLANTED . Here in Ohio spring field work ya got to have atleast ONE big time stuck and also late fall harvest ya got to have one to finish out the year . Back in the Clinton formation play when we were drilling like mad men and almost a drilling rig on ever corner of ever road and goat path we were not building mega locations it was blow them in as fast as you could and only put down stone on the first 150 feet of the lease entrance and cut a one blade width wide down to the yellow back to the pad cut three pits and on to the next one , we had some real wild STUCKS , Construction Oh yea, ya play in dirt your going to get stuck. Farming on this one my one stuck and troubled was in 1989 , tis was the granddaddy of them all . It was my second year on a rented farm and i was adding a new 8 acre field , it was part of and old pasture and it sat next to the one huge strip mine spoil pile and behind the old barn . had one squall that i was going to leave with grass . I had walked just about every inch of this field looking it over and layen out a game plan and marking boundary . So i started plowing it turning it out and it was rolling real nice , the tractor was a 67 706 Gas narrow ft real good 18.4x34's tires loaded with three sets of donuts on the land side and five weights on the furrow had a 1000 hanging on the ft as 750 sometimes would bring on the pucker factor going up hills and i really hated looking down the opening of the muffler when she was standing straight in the air , So you really had to watch for soft spots . this field sat high and dry even the squall was dry . I had made a lot of passes over the grass strip just fine , all but this round as the ft end hit the middle i raised the plows and when the back tires hit the center of it the ground opened up and the back end of the tractor went down , the 4 bottoms had the ft two bottoms down in the hole and the back two standing up out of the ground and the tail wheel was over 6 feet in the air . I had to step Up about a foot to get off the tractor . I only had one tractor at the time , all i had extra was my Ford F 250 4x4 , yea i tried that and never shook it , called a friend that had a 1086 he came down and we never shook it , went over to the neighbor farmer who i had never meet before and asked for help and he came with a 4840 and the 4840 and the 1086 hardly even shook it no matter how we tried and even added in the pick up with tire chains on all four . Well plan A, B,C, and D did not work out on to plan E . I went up to another friends place and borrowed one of his 750 Deere Dozers with a W6 F hyster winch , that is 60000lbs of straight line pull add in a snatch block and ya have 120000 lbs of line pull . I have pulled many drilling rigs that weighed in at 200000 lbs and trucks of all sizes and other stuck dozers , This 706 is coming out . The down side is getting the dozer in to the farm , can't come across the bride as it is a covered bridge a wooden covered bridge. can't bring the semi in the long way due to the other little bridge , so i have unload up on the other road then come down to almost the bridge then cut into the pasture and ford the creek with out getting the dozer stuck in the creek or the far bank . Get this all done and up to the tractor and hook straight line pull line out about fifty feet drop blade set brakes and start to pull , tractor no move but doer pulls back to tractor , i sucked 40000lbs of dozer back to the tractor , plan B line out set dozer in and pull so i line out around fifty feet sink the blade into the dirt as far as it will go and spin the tracks digging them down in and building up dirt behind , i had them down in to the top of the tracks and started my pull and sucked the dozer up out of the holes . New plan cut a trench a tee trench down about four feet then back the dozer down in the tee and add the snatch block , now something will either come or bleed . My one buddy Sid was helping me and Sid and i worked the patch together so he knew all the how to and what fors . we had some spectators watching all this That was the ticket and we got her coming and out . That nice job of plowing was now a total mess with all the holes that got dug from spinning all the plowed ground that got packed down and the HUGE almost bottomless hole in the water way . Sid and i worked three days filling that hole with the biggest rock we could put in the back of the old 65 ford one ton dump from back in the old strip cuts then load after load of shale that i was cutting off the old spoil banks with the 750 and sid was loading with a 990 David Brown loading the old ford like a Euclid with shale running off all four corners . Best we can figure was that either a bore hole or a old deep mine gave way as coal mining has been and ongoing this down here . That farm had a massive strip cut thru the middle that was done back in the early 60's , back then they mined for miles cutting thru township roads and everything . The back high wall on that farm was over a 175 feet to the water level and another 90 plus feet to the bottom . the old org cut was 900 feet wide . then they would auger what they did not strip back up under the hills . Up on the back of that farm was just a shade over 90 acres that was lightly over grown that had i stayed down there i was going to open up but needed to do a smalll back fill of the cut to get to it and do some bruch cleaning that i figured would take two weeks with a 750 of building a easy accesses that you did not have to go four wheeling on a dry day to get up there. . Then the granddaddy of oil field stuck was the drilling rig that had to pull off a hole that went down total weight of that rig was 210000 lbs of Stuck stuck like six feet deep from ft to back . On that one i was working for my one friend as the boss of all mobile equipment and field operations . When the cal came in for two dozers for a stuck rig i had two J D 850's setting and one operator BIG BUTCH , super Guy great operator BUT HUGE Ok yep i can send two Hey Butch load up and i will take the other off we go , haw how hard is this going to be between us straight line pull we have 140000 lbs pull plus we each have two snatch blocks . We will be in and out faster then it took to drive down . It was and hour and a half drive . When we got there there were two D 6 D's there already working with four pulling and pushing nothing moved only broken winch lines then in come two D 7 F's and two mechanics with new spools of 1 1/8 dia . winch line . then two more D 6 D's . We have seen the sun go down and we saw the sun come up and we pulled a brand new west Coast Dickerson setup Mack tractor double frame get pulled in half ( Butch and i did that ) as we were hooked to the ft. then Burdett Drilling brought in thee Huge Oshkosh all wheel drive with the 24 inch I beam frame and as the sun went down on the second day the rig was on the pavement . everything else was just momentarily delays.
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