How to tell when it is too wet....

[Skintback]

I never would have thought of using my tractor for a depth gauge. The standing water would have been enough to convince me.

Like I said, trying to rush the drying process. Not using the tractor for a depth gauge; trying to get my fields planted. I'm impatient sometimes. That was the only standing water in the field and being that it is shaded most of the day it wasn't drying well. Parts of the rest of the field actually turned over and dried well enough to plant later that day. Guess some have never been stuck, huh?:drink:

Tarp it and wait till next July.

It's out!:thumbsup: it was actually out about five minutes later than the pic. Wasn't stuck that bad just looks like it is.

 

[Skintback]

You have to give skintback some credit for enthusiasm. In the first picture it looks like he could be in trouble on his front axle only. In the subsequent pictures he buries his rear axle going forward into the mud? Gotta like that gusto! No harm no foul, just some mud on the tractor. Nice tractor by the way.

Yeah it had done well in the other patches that were plowed. Testing the ground out a little when I went in; it wasn't good. I was probably five feet or less from solid ground with the rear tires. Didn't hurt anything at all.
Oh and thanks for the compliment about the tractor. It's clean again!:thumbsup:

adventuresome..... go ahead & get stuck in cold weather....let it freeze solid overnight. then tow next morn? NO!!!!! been done before w/lots of broken axles

Well, seeing's how in central mississippi we don't have a whole lot of cold weather (it is pretty common to be in the eighties in December) and this picture was taken in late September when the temps are still around 90, wasn't too worried about it freezing and breaking parts when trying to free it up. But I guess that's what makes me "adventuresome".

 

[dragoneggs]

Skintback, you made it sound easy. Glad you could get your Chevy close enough to rescue. Not sure I would trade my slope for that mud! Well done. Now that you say it took '5 minutes' it looks like fun!

 

[Kub39]

The last time I was stuck in Kentucky clay with a BX 2200, no where near as bad as the pictures posted here, I swore to avoid that from ever happening again. I spent like the next two days chiseling that clay out from every nook and cranny. The bar tires just kept packing that clay in everywhere...even up under the seat. It was just more pain than I could stand on a weekend.

 

[Brimfield]

Yep that was me last month. I wanted to clear burms back 3 feet on my drive to make room for snow when plowing. I have clay under our top soil and I ended up sunk in just like you. I couldn't pull out with the back hoe because the driveway is paved. I was pulling at a 90* angle with my Duramax and it was still in. Finally in one of my 塗old my beer and watch this moments" I left the truck in 4 low in gear running with the chain attached. I then got on the tractor and backed it out. The E brake held but the truck was still taking it for a ride. I hopped in the truck and put it in park, thank goodness it was going like 1 mph

 

[murphy1244]

I was told there are Two kind of Tractors" Those that are stuck and those that are looking for a place to get stuck".

 

[RaydaKub]

Yep that was me last month. I wanted to clear burms back 3 feet on my drive to make room for snow when plowing. I have clay under our top soil and I ended up sunk in just like you. I couldn't pull out with the back hoe because the driveway is paved. I was pulling at a 90* angle with my Duramax and it was still in. Finally in one of my å¡—old my beer and watch this moments" I left the truck in 4 low in gear running with the chain attached. I then got on the tractor and backed it out. The E brake held but the truck was still taking it for a ride. I hopped in the truck and put it in park, thank goodness it was going like 1 mph

Yikes! You were "driving" both the pickup and the tractor at the same time?!?!? Couldn't the beer holder drive one for ya?

 

[Skintback]

Skintback, you made it sound easy. Glad you could get your Chevy close enough to rescue. Not sure I would trade my slope for that mud! Well done. Now that you say it took '5 minutes' it looks like fun!

Yeah it wasn't too bad. In the first pic you can see the woods road right behind the disc so it wasn't bad at all. At least it wasn't in the middle!:shocked:

The last time I was stuck in Kentucky clay with a BX 2200, no where near as bad as the pictures posted here, I swore to avoid that from ever happening again. I spent like the next two days chiseling that clay out from every nook and cranny. The bar tires just kept packing that clay in everywhere...even up under the seat. It was just more pain than I could stand on a weekend.

Yeah wasn't real crazy about mine being as nasty as it was but it's good now. In my younger days mud and being stuck was a lot more fun. Now it's just nasty and can be expensive!!!

Yep that was me last month. I wanted to clear burms back 3 feet on my drive to make room for snow when plowing. I have clay under our top soil and I ended up sunk in just like you. I couldn't pull out with the back hoe because the driveway is paved. I was pulling at a 90* angle with my Duramax and it was still in. Finally in one of my å¡—old my beer and watch this moments" I left the truck in 4 low in gear running with the chain attached. I then got on the tractor and backed it out. The E brake held but the truck was still taking it for a ride. I hopped in the truck and put it in park, thank goodness it was going like 1 mph

Now that is ingenuity! Glad it worked out for you. I seem to be able to get in "predicaments"

I was told there are Two kind of Tractors" Those that are stuck and those that are looking for a place to get stuck".

LOL! That's the way it is here. Either buckshot clay or gumbo mud! Not real hard to stick it to the frame here even though I try not to

Yikes! You were "driving" both the pickup and the tractor at the same time?!?!? Couldn't the beer holder drive one for ya?

Ha!

 

[Skintback]

Skintback, you made it sound easy. Glad you could get your Chevy close enough to rescue. Not sure I would trade my slope for that mud! Well done. Now that you say it took '5 minutes' it looks like fun!

Really, our little farm has been in my family since 1901 and dad and I bought paw out in 2005. In my life time, I don't think we have every had anything on that place (from trucks to tractors- backhoe to bulldozers up to four wheelers) that hasn't been stuck. It gets down right rotten when it gets wet. I knew better but we never had four wheel drive tractors before. They just get stuck with a little more under the ground!

I watched my dad bury a john deere 4010 with a JD 12' disc in the same field 10-15 years ago. Tire turned half a round and it was on the drawbar; didn't clutch it quick enough. We had an old D4 cat at the time and it so happened to be out there too. I went and got it and proceeded to stick it in front of and to the side(out of the field) of the tractor. Took a D6 to get both out and wondered about the smartness of this move but dad had just rebuilt the engine in the JD and wasn't leaving it.

When I told him about getting stuck in the field, he said "Dang son! A helicopter can't fly low over it when it's wet and you know this!"

Last short story. My grandfather in the 1960s had a Willis jeep. He said it was 1 of 2 four wheel drives in the county. Well our place joins some college land that we were once able to drive in. Well deer season one year he proceeded to stick it good in November. In the spring, a logger with a team of mules was skidding logs came across the stuck jeep and pulled it up on a hill. He knew who's jeep it was so he sent word where his jeep was now located. It sat for four or five months because there was no way to retrieve it till it dried up.

 

[milkman636]

Those stories and pics bring back some memories for me. Even though I live high and dry now, I grew up in a township that is 3/4 swampland.

Thanks for posting.