Must be Monday!

[kcm.MN]

Puzzle: https://jigex.com/uoEjU

 

[rick n ohio]

That's definitely a Monday.

 

[caterpillar guy]

How does one work a tractor that deep when stuck was about a foot and a half ago shallower. They just pull out that much harder. If he had duals on it would need to set there till it dried up almost. Then lifted out if you didn't want to break anything.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 03:53:31 06/26/23) How does one work a tractor that deep when stuck was about a foot and a half ago shallower. They just pull out that much harder. If he had duals on it would need to set there till it dried up almost. Then lifted out if you didn't want to break anything.

When you have worked ground for a few years you learn that you don't always have to spin your way down. There are places where at times there is a lot of water, and a tire will suddenly just sink.

 

[muleman51]

We had a sprayer stuck one year. It was only down maybe eighteen inches. We walked out to get shovels to dig out some of the mud infront of the tires, when we got back probably 20 minutes later it had sunk to the hubs. We're talking 14.9 46s so it can happen by itself. Ten feet away it was dry.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

A few years ago I came back home here to find a younger fellow with his once nice 4x4 pickup in the road ditch. The ditch was a mess where he had tried to keep going. His comment was 'I almost got out'! He was clueless. At no time did he almost get out. And the side of his truck was a mess. He looked old enough he should have been on his own. But it sure seemed like a situation where mommy and daddy were providing the goods. If he had let off, and stopped, damage to the truck would have been minimal.
Once when I was delivering fuel, a snow plow forced me off the road on a curve. It was either slice the left front of the fuel truck into the vertical cutting edge of the one way plow, or the ditch. When I slid into the ditch, the empty fuel truck rolled onto its side! Once extracted, I drove it off without any damage.

 

[valleview]

Been stuck in the past- maybe not quite that bad. Seems like it can happen despite being careful.

 

[danofarming]

First rule of getting stuck. Know when to STOP!!!!!

 

[jon f mn]

We get frost heaves here, that is about 30
seconds of spinning in one of them. Was
plowing one spring with an on-land plow
when I came to a sudden stop. When I
looked back I first thought the furrow
wheel had broken off as it was gone. Then
I realized it was under the mud. The
tractor had just broken the sod. I went
and got another tractor, but when I got
back the tractor was sitting on the belly.
You could step directly into the cab.

 

[chcase]

We all can smile when it's someone else
stuck. But for the few of us that farm
land that has wet sink holes we can see
the problem. If the ground is wet and you
break the surface,then you have a mess.
Only hope you have big enought equipement
to pull it out or acess to the bigger
stuff.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 09:02:02 06/26/23) We all can smile when it's someone else
stuck. But for the few of us that farm
land that has wet sink holes we can see
the problem. If the ground is wet and you
break the surface,then you have a mess.
Only hope you have big enought equipement
to pull it out or acess to the bigger
stuff.

This is probably a good time to tell how we used get a stuck tractor out when it was a fifteen mile walk to get a big tractor. You pass a chain through between the rim and center and chain it around a log which is placed against both rear tires. Then you do the same on the other side. Then you just BACK the tractor up and out over the log. NEVER going forward! it works on military tanks too. Many tanks photographed or recorded in Ukraine are carrying logs.

 

[2 9600]

(reply to post at 10:30:58 06/26/23)

hole is half dug finish it and throw that poor excuse of a tractor in it and cover up

 

[caterpillar guy]

Only time I saw anything that stuck here was when My youngest brother was working on some muck in the swamp and he had never doe that before . The Cat was down to the top of the radiator in front and top of the tracks in the rear. We tried pulling it out the night before and no luck, so waited till morning and pulled it out after pushing some of the dirt out around the sides of the tracks. Put all the tractors on one chain as they hooked one to the other biggest first and samller as they went. And put the biggest one out on a 100 feet of cable. then pushed with the D-4 against the bucket on the No.6 When it came out I was setting facing straight down with the D-4 could just barely back out.

 

[SweetFeet]

Even I, would have the good sense to stop
trying before that stage.

So it must have been Monday. LOL