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

[Skintback]

And, just in case anybody missed it, this is the perpetrator for turning my fields over:



Not that I minded or anything! He's a great youngin!:thumbsup:

 

[Larro Darro]

Good looking kid there. Once me and my daddy were digging beside the pond with our little dozer. We got a good sized hole dug with a thin dam between us and the pond. The plan was to breach the dam and let the water wash in, forming a launching spot for the boat. But as Daddy was backing out of the hole, the blade touched the dam and there was a premature breaching. It was buried in mud in seconds. We got every tractor in the neighborhood out there, but still had to get a wrecker to get it out. The old dozer was never the same after that.

Larro

 

[crazyal]

Two weekends ago I was almost stuck like you. Between the loader and some chains I was able to get myself out. If I had to walk back to the house I would have took a few pictures but I got lucky.

 

[dragoneggs]

And, just in case anybody missed it, this is the perpetrator for turning my fields over:
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Not that I minded or anything! He's a great youngin!:thumbsup:

Boy I hope my tractor grows up to be like yours!

 

[Chilly807]

And, just in case anybody missed it, this is the perpetrator for turning my fields over:
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Not that I minded or anything! He's a great youngin!:thumbsup:

Yep, he's having fun, no question ! To me, plowing is one of the most "fun" activities I do with my tractor.

Now, for my question.. do you generally plow from left to right?? Maybe I'm looking at the picture out of order or something, but it looks like he's moving from left to right. I've always plowed from right to left, except in the case of a roll-over plow.

 

[Skintback]

Yeah he went backwards! I was waiting to see if anyone noticed. I was too busy videoing and taking pics and when I noticed I just said oh well! I started to stop him to get him going the correct way but just decided to not even tell him! Good eye!!

 

[Chilly807]

Yeah he went backwards! I was waiting to see if anyone noticed. I was too busy videoing and taking pics and when I noticed I just said oh well! I started to stop him to get him going the correct way but just decided to not even tell him! Good eye!!

No harm done, it still turns the soil, just not as neat and tidy! It's funny, every time I get ready to plow, I have to think over which side of the field to start on.. just not second nature to me yet.
Sean

 

[Brimfield]

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

Yep, it's not a tractor until its been baptized in muck

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

Yep both going at once. "Hold my beer and watch this" is just a joke I use to describe the crazy stuff or stupid stuff that I or others do. I don't drink while on a tractor, I manage to find the muck holes well enough sober. It would have been nice to have someone around to help but oh well. The truck was aimed at the other side of the driveway at some small trees for a backstop.

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.

I lost my old plow truck on our land before we built for 2 months. The driveway was a rough cut from a dozer and I came down to plow in the last storm of the year. I was not aware that under some ice I had a small runoff flowing that had not been there before. Add that and clay and I was up to the rockers instantly when the ice broke. When the owner of the dozer came back from Florida he pulled it out, nothing broke. So I can understand what your Grandfather had happen, nothing else to get the truck out with.

 

[TomSeller]

No harm done, it still turns the soil, just not as neat and tidy! It's funny, every time I get ready to plow, I have to think over which side of the field to start on.. just not second nature to me yet.
Sean

Reminds me of when I first climbed on my backhoe. I had a 50% chance of grabbing the right lever and a 50% chance of moving that lever the right way. So 25% of the time I did the right thing. I am a little north of those percentages now, but sometimes I revert back.

 

[RaydaKub]

Yep both going at once. "Hold my beer and watch this" is just a joke I use to describe the crazy stuff or stupid stuff that I or others do. I don't drink while on a tractor, I manage to find the muck holes well enough sober. It would have been nice to have someone around to help but oh well. The truck was aimed at the other side of the driveway at some small trees for a backstop.

I fully understood what you meant, just playing along.
One thought I had though: You said you had a backhoe, but it was paved. Why not use the truck as your anchor and use the backhoe to pull against the chain? If the truck is enough to help pull, wouldn't it also be enough to anchor the hoe? Or would this have fallen into that category where the wheels needed to be turning in order to provide some "lift" as well as pull and the backhoe would only have provided pull?