Robert_in_NY
Super Member
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2001
- Messages
- 8,588
- Location
- Silver Creek, NY
- Tractor
- Case-IH Farmall 45A, Kubota M8540 Narrow, New Holland TN 65, Bobcat 331, Ford 1920, 1952 John Deere M, Allis Chalmers B, Bombardier Traxter XT, Massey Harris 81RC and a John Deere 3300 combine, Cub Cadet GT1554
Besides the fact I need a larger tractor to help out on the farm people keep getting their tractor trailers stuck on our property and my TN is way too small to get them out while hooked up. Tonight the power company managed to back their tri axle tractor with tri axle detachable neck lowboy down our driveway to load a large crawler with man boom on it. Well the crawler is quite heavy and with the condition that driveway is in there was no way they were going to make it out loaded. I had them detach the trailer and I could pull the tractor loose so they could unload the crawler. Once the tractor was free I smoothed out the ruts and they unloaded the crawler. I led the crawler to a spot up on the other side of the road where it is flat and gravel ground. The tractor reattached to the trailer and could then get out of the driveway. There was no way I was going to budge that rig though while loaded
Last year one of the lime delivery trucks backed into a ditch and got buried before they dumped their load. They couldn't dump the entire load because they couldn't pull forward and couldn't unhook the trailer because of the ground conditions. I had to call my neighbor at that farm to come over with his 120hp FWA tractor and he pulled them out with ease. So if this keeps up I need a new tractor just to harvest trucks from my land as people keep planting them there
Tandem axle straight trucks are about the limits for my tractor to pull out which is why I can pull the tractors out but not loaded tractor trailers. I pushed my friends tandem axle International dump truck out of the place this lowboy got stuck before and had to pull the single axle town dump trucks out twice after they backed up too far and dropped their axle over the edge of the bank while dumping ditch diggings. Now if I could only keep these trucks after harvesting them
Last year one of the lime delivery trucks backed into a ditch and got buried before they dumped their load. They couldn't dump the entire load because they couldn't pull forward and couldn't unhook the trailer because of the ground conditions. I had to call my neighbor at that farm to come over with his 120hp FWA tractor and he pulled them out with ease. So if this keeps up I need a new tractor just to harvest trucks from my land as people keep planting them there
Tandem axle straight trucks are about the limits for my tractor to pull out which is why I can pull the tractors out but not loaded tractor trailers. I pushed my friends tandem axle International dump truck out of the place this lowboy got stuck before and had to pull the single axle town dump trucks out twice after they backed up too far and dropped their axle over the edge of the bank while dumping ditch diggings. Now if I could only keep these trucks after harvesting them