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Post by ironoxide on Apr 5, 2017 17:36:33 GMT -6
I was pulling out the driveway this morning and a neighbor pulls in before I got out. He said he had got his 4430 JD stuck. I told him I had to go to town but would stop by and see what I could do. "Stuck" was an understatement. The belly of the tractor was in the mud and the drawbar was a foot or more in the mud. I drove the backhoe up to his place and dug down to the drawbar so we could hook a clevis to it. After breaking the 3/8" chain a couple of times he found a bigger chain and we got him out. There was mud around the crank pulley and radiator.
It looked like he found a wet weather spring. Just a few feet either way was solid rock and gravel.
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Post by Bigun on Apr 5, 2017 17:39:18 GMT -6
Sounds like my luck. Ive got to spread fertilizer this weekend, hope I remember all the wet spots. Would sure hate to fool with a stuck tractor all weekend.
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Post by ironoxide on Apr 5, 2017 17:58:35 GMT -6
Kent I just noticed our pichers, I better keep shaving or folks can't tell us apart
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Post by Bigun on Apr 5, 2017 18:15:37 GMT -6
LOL...I didnt pay any attention to it...
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Post by Butcher on Apr 5, 2017 19:04:38 GMT -6
Kent I just noticed our pichers, I better keep shaving or folks can't tell us apart You can upload a new piture iffn you go to your Profile page. It seems to be pretty easy to do I think. Maybe. |
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Post by billinohio on Apr 5, 2017 19:12:18 GMT -6
There is no fertilizer spreading going on around here. It was just about as wet as it gets and we just got another inch this evening.
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Post by Bigun on Apr 5, 2017 20:13:51 GMT -6
think i figured out the picture change....hey even a blind hog finds an acorn ever now and then.
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Post by Butcher on Apr 5, 2017 20:29:26 GMT -6
think i figured out the picture change....hey even a blind hog finds an acorn ever now and then. If only I had a hog that would root out truffles... but that would mean having to live in France I guess. |
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Post by bgoathill on Apr 5, 2017 20:36:35 GMT -6
I've got a big honkin chain that I make my truckdrivers go drag over when they manage to get stuck in some dumbass position where I can't push them out. They're always bitchin' and moaning about how heavy it is. I just tell them we're not pulling 8n Fords around.
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Post by f2036 on Apr 6, 2017 14:53:14 GMT -6
Gettin' stuck isn't bad, uh huh, but after you dig under the tractor axle for enough room for the jack and a plank, get it all set and then start jackin, and the plank goes down and the water comes up !!! So after about three planks under the jack the water stops commin' up and the ole M starts to raise up out of the mud.
Finally got the M out, left the disc there, then pulled it out backwards. To start with the wet spot wasn't any bigger than the disc was, I figured I'd just raise the disc up a little and walk on through, ya right !! some days a fella shouldn't even start a tractor !!
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Post by Erstwhile on Apr 7, 2017 5:58:31 GMT -6
Old stump hole maybe.
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Post by haywood on Apr 11, 2017 0:14:01 GMT -6
Heck it snowed here this morning, more Rain this Spring as well.
The dog piss really smells when it rains.
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