Lets see your Mahindra!

bindian · Feb 27, 2017

Sysop said:
Actually I was extracting hand cut stones that were thrown down there when a drunk killed a stone gate pillar in front of my house a couple hours into the new year (they can be seen scattered about in the left side of the "stuck" pic and added a pic below). I needed the grapple to reach out and pluck stones from the mud. It all worked out fine except the last/farthest one...

I thought with the backhoe on back, I'd have enough weight on the rear to pull the front out, or at least be able to drag it back up the hill with the hoe. As soon as the front tires went in, they sunk. I didn't expect there to be such an edge under the muck.

A bucket on the front wouldn't have helped. I cross-stacked some old fence posts across under the grapple to have a surface to push against to lift the front and push it back. The fenceposts gave me a lot more surface area to push against than the bucket would have. When I pushed, they went under. I quit pushing once they were a couple feet under the muck. When I raised up, loader packed with mud, I started to shake stuff off, but one of my new hoses was pushed into a pinch point and ended up severed (note on the front-view, there is only one hose coming from the 3rd function QDs to the grapple cylinder). Once it is costing time AND money, it's time to stop and get some assistance.

I went to the next door neighbors house to see if they could pull it out with their larger tractor, but nobody was home. I ended up driving about a mile across the hill to a guy who has a couple big wreckers. His first attempt at winching it out while I held the tractor in reverse, ended up dragging his wrecker which he said weighed over 16k. He agreed it was properly stuck. After digging his wheel lift on the back of the wrecker into my yard, and attaching a second winch cable, he plucked it right out.

Nothing in that swamp with nasty teeth except the tractor. Spring peepers and some turtles is the extent of it.

Your right, stacking stuff under the tractor makes them disappear. But a bucket would give you a huge flat "launching pad". At least with my 7 foot bucket it does.
hugs, Brandi

rokit · Mar 2, 2017

I bought my 1526 shuttle new in December last year...I'm rapidly approaching the 50-hour mark (filters ordered from Bill's Tractors yesterday). Been putting in some fence (centerpunched a telecom bundle right off despite proper 811 prep on my part), doing some grading (building the Field of Dreams), pulling some stumps, and moving stuff around the property because it's fun. I love the machine...

RNeumann · Mar 2, 2017

Ode to have soil that I could use a 3 point PHD on! Looks good! Enjoy

rokit · Mar 2, 2017

RNeumann said:
Ode to have soil that I could use a 3 point PHD on! Looks good! Enjoy

It *mostly* works...until you hit a vein of caliche. Then forget it and get the dynamite.

belman · Mar 2, 2017

Been a while since I posted my purchase of my Mahindra 1533. It's in our Pa. home (pole bldg) now. However we also reside in Florida in the winter months. I found a few pictures of my dad years ago with my two sons handing onto back of dad's Farmall tractor. Years later he purchased a Massey Furguson 1030 (2 wheel drive) and use it for years as well as myself and my sons. They now like the Mahindra that I purchase with my oldest son getting closer to building on our property and using the Mahindra.