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Rainy day story. The Old Backhoe Saves the Day (Again)
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Posted by bbott on February 23, 2002 at 12:57:03 from (206.13.45.135):
The neighbors hired hand showed up on my porch a few hours ago. It's been pouring rain here for the last couple of days and he had stuck his 3/4 ton Chevy 4x4 (with a stock trailer full of heifers) on the place across the street. They'd already tried dragging it out with another 4x4, but had been lucky to get the second truck out of the field after doing nothing but digging everything in deeper. Got on the old (1967?) JD400 backhoe, drove over and found his rig bedded in very nicely up to the axles, with a tandem axle stock trailer mudded in behind him pretty good too. I politely asked him if he just wanted me to finish burying that Chevy where it was, but somehow he didn't think it was that funny. Being a Ford man, I had to get a few licks in (grins). He was stuck so bad that I thought I'd have to 'plant' the machine and use the dipper stick to pull him out, but lo and behold we chained the hoe bucket up to his bumper and it walked him out of there, hardly spinning a wheel. Sometimes this old piece of junk just amazes me. I think the thing that makes that machine pull so well is that it is balanced so that it has about 90% of the weight on the rear wheels. At any rate, I'm expecting a bottle of Mr. Daniels finest out of this one.
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