This plow out was a little more expensive

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As I usually plow my own lot, but for the price of fuel, it's a pretty cheap to do it. Not today. Things were going along just peachy until the tractor slid off the embankment. It was in slow motion. You know it's happening but no matter what maneuver you use, it gets mired more and more. Nothing I had would extract it (2 ton come-along and the Durango). Would not budge except to the winch on the wrecker I had to hire. Had pictures but they would not upload today.

 

[Thomas]

That's part of owning tractor..lesson learn as they say.

 

[oosik]

Fortunately neither you nor the tractor were hurt. Its a frightening experience - years ago I came close - very close.

 

[RockyNY]

Well there goes those savings. lol. I got stuck twice this year when the tractor slid off the driveway. Both times I was able to extract myself after doing a lot of shoveling, but it's been years since we've had a snowpack like we currently have. You get off the plowed area and you're done.

 

[newbury]

Not to diminish the OP's pain, but.
Brings back memories.
Used to live on a rural dirt road in Vermont, 1 mile back in, first house. After about a week of storm and a heavy ice storm one January about 1977 Mom wanted me to go to the store in my little Toyota pickup, 2WD. I had gravel in the back. I must have slipped off the road a dozen times at speeds slower than a turtle, even one of Drew's turtles.
It would be "Ok, here we go again" then a real slow slide into the ditch. Get out, shovel some gravel under the tires, drive out. Repeat.

Thing was the gravel was brightly colored aquarium gravel from the pet shop I worked at All summer you could see the little "signs" where I had slipped off the road.

 

[Clint S]

It happens. We had to call a wrecker once when the tractor was dangling in a precarious position when brush hogging. The ground just gave way and one fosse move would have put us in the drink.

 

[PILOON]

A tracked 'dozer on bedrock acts about the same way as a tractor on ice
Both stain your shorts.

 

[WilliamTO-35]

Once my neighbor down the road called me , and asked if I had a chain hoist. He had manuvered his fairly large 4300 series John Deere along the bank of his pond , and every try he made to climb to level ground made the situation worse, and slid his JD closer to the water. I told him my chain hoist was only a half ton capacity, but my little Ferguson TO-35 could pull around 3000 lb.
I drove my tractor over, hooked a long cable to the side of his JD, and as he moved forward I was able to persuade his tractor to climb to level ground. Of course, coming back through his woods, I ran over something sharp, and by the time I got home I had a flat front tire. There's a moral there somewhere.

 

[WilliamTO-35]

Oops. Unintentional double post.

 

[tman1020]

Glad you were not hurt. But I am looking forward to seeing the pics.