About sixty years ago my my father had a nearly new Farmall C. My mother was driving it hauling a wagon to pick up hay. The man on the wagon had loaded the front about four bales high. When Mother stopped in the middle of a steep hill, and dumped the clutch hard enough to bring the front wheels off the ground the partial load slid backwards, pinning the guy against the tail board of the wagon.
More recently (1970's) a girlfriend of our hired man got going downhill too fast with the Super C and a load of hay. The Super C had the standard ineffective, improperly maintained/maladjusted Farmall disc brakes. When the brake didn't do any good she put the clutch in, and rode it to the bottom of the hill where she finally managed a wide U-turn and got it stopped facing back uphill. Her boyfriend was on top of the load all the way, hollering at her to let the clutch out.
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Today's Featured Article - Talk of the Town: What's The "Stuckest" You've Ever Been? - by Edited by Kim Pratt. Another great discussion from the Tractor Talk Discussion Forum. The discussion started out with the following post: "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
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