Know how to tell when you're REALLY stuck?

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When you're on a 4 wheel drive tractor with R1 Ag tires, locking differentials on both ends, all 4 tires are turning, you're not moving and mud and water are starting to seep up onto the footboards.

That, my friend, is STUCK!

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"Guido" is an Italian Pasquali tractor, 20hp 1-lunger diesel, 9 speed (3x3) transmission, fully articulated. Little sumbitch will go anywhere as long as it can find traction. I was hauling a trailer load of the sand the Town was so kind as to throw off the street and into my yard all winter. Wanted to dump it in a hole in the back corner of the pasture. First load went fine. Second, not so much...taddy-bit softer than I anticipated...
 
reminds of the time one of my MD Nat'l Guard compatriots sunk our all terrain forklift (John Deere center articulated loader with tines in place of the bucket) in the marsh. Up to the top of the 5 foot tall tires... about 300 ft off the tarmac of Philips Air Field at APG... took me three M-82 trucks, each loaded with a 5k lb 'pet rock', with multiple 10k chains to drag that sucker out! Almost had to call for a tank recovery vehicle!
 
I unloaded about 1/3 of the sand with a shovel (ewwwwww!) and dumped it in the ruts. Then I was able to back up enough to get the trailer up on relatively solid ground, dumped the rest of the sand, filled in the ruts in front of the tractor and drove out.


I have a home-built dump trailer that I use for such things. Originally it had a straight lift cylinder with no linkage. Cheap, as I had all the parts laying around, but it had limited capacity. I eventually built a scissors hoist from a kit with a bigger cylinder. The first load of sand was it's first real test and it lifted it effortlessly. So, of course, I had to put MORE on the second load. That's what buried the trailer and me being too stoopid to stop when the wheels started slipping is what buried the tractor.
 
Cool trailer!
Patience weed toker, Patience.
Why I sold the Loegering tracks for the skid steer. Without tracks I'm not tempted to charge in where a wise farmer won't drive. I've not had a single project that refused to wait for the soil to dry out before I went after it. I have to move some dirt to fill in at last fall's horse water big dig. Wheel barrow work, lawn's too soft for the skid steer.
 
If it makes you feel any better, she HAD to have horse trailer out, I should have used the 4wd pick up but noooooo went in with the van. Result; drag the van out out with a long rope to the pick up. Then use the pick up to get the trailer out and, swap once on the drive way. Bonus, more yard work.20180424_072028.jpg
 
Dang-it DE - you just made me snort again!

Holy cow WER - that tractor is IN!
 
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