MHarryE
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- Joined
- Feb 15, 2009
- Messages
- 2,946
- Location
- Northeastern Minnesota
- Tractor
- Kubota M7-171, M5-111, SVL75-2, RTV900XT & GR2120; CaseIH 1680 combine
I am out checking fields to see if we can spray. I've gone through this ditch before when the water was higher, but I plunge and get stuck. Okay, time to try out the diff lock, but no improvement. Why - the water is only hub deep although the engine and transmission are dragging , but this should not be a problem. Nothing to do but walk the half mile to the house and get my wife with a tractor. We get back, everything hooked up, I start the RTV up, check the panel, and see that the 2WD/4WD lever is in 2WD. Case of terminal stupidity. So before my wife even starts pulling I am able to back out of the mudhole. I unhook the chain, throw it in the back of the RTV, and send my wife on her way. She knows better. She moves a few feet and then watches me knowing from experience I guess. Well I move over and charge at it again. Only this time the left front goes in the right track and the left rear slides on the slick bank into the left track and it won't make the bank on the far side. Furthermore it won't back up because it is sitting katty-whompus. My wife waits patiently as I take off my boots, wade through the water (it really is over knee deep at the bottom of that ditch), hook up the chain, and she drags me out. She doesn't even crack a smile. All in a days work for her. She did say later that evening that at least I didn't break anything or injure myself.