I did a good one.

I ran the disk over the gardens thursday and again friday. I have a small water run in the yard and wanted to move it away from the lower garden. I ran the disk over the new path a few times in both directions. Then swapped to the grader blade. The soil on the rear of the top garden will be moved to the lower garden. I graded away from the area I will be planting so I won't be disturbing the plants. Then I moved to the water run. I made some 30 passes removing about 8" of dirt over the area in both directions, moving dirt into the lower run. I hit a soft spot and stuck the tractor. Now to find another tractor that can pull it out.

well we are proud of you, but did you catch any crappie? lol

Send me pics to my cell Jimmy, could I not snatch her out with a couple 6 wheel drive F-450 super beast?? Sorry, just got home from Canton, started by your place to take a look, but wasn't sure if it was at your dwelling or the kids, let me know..

Didn't go fishing.
I don't think you could get close enough to it and be on dry solid ground. It's at the back of my place.
My son got the hydraulic hoses for his tractor from Aus. I went to get his tractor going and moved dirt for a birthday party for a granddaughter tomorrow.

If I hadn't been in Birmingham we could be been fishing and you wouldn't have got stuck.

7 hours without help to get the tractor out. Missed the birthday party for my 7 year old.

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Originally Posted by canebreaker

7 hours without help to get the tractor out. Missed the birthday party for my 7 year old.

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Why you miss the birthday party? Tractor wasn't going anywhere, bet it would have been in the same spot when you got back..

Can't work with it if you can't move it.

Didn't have help to get it out so you might as well had went to the party!


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I stuck my yard tractor after the last rain...waited 3 days, and drove it out..

I get stuck sometimes with my tractor and also my zero turn lawnmower.....most of the time I can get them out with my 4X4 truck and a long cable and snatch block.

I had backed in to make one more pass with the blade. I dropped the blade and as I was going to first gear the rear of the tractor dropped. I had removed enough of the top layer of clay to hit a mush pit under ground.
I wrapped a 1/2"X20' chain around the grill guard, added another 1/2"X20' chain to it. Made a loop to hook the 4 ton come a long then on the nearest tree I wrapped a 1/2" X 20' chain. I dug out on the front of the rear wheels to make a slop. Dug out in front of the blade. As I moved the tractor forward a few inches I would fill behind the wheels with gravel and brick so if something happened the wheel wouldn't go back to where it was. I reset the come a long 6 times before getting to solid enough ground to bring it up. The wheels made a trench 8 ft long.
My neighbor, my step dad's step son-in-law came over when I finished. He could have borrowed a tractor, but would have to find more chains. Maybe 75 ft to get to ground solid enough to pull it out. The 60 ft of graded ground in front of the tractor felt like jello.
With the chance of rain and nowhere for the water to go this morning I hooked to the breaking plow. I backed to the trench and dropped the plow a couple of inches, removing about 2" of dirt on the 76 ft run. I repeated the pass a few inches at a time until I could drop the plow all the way. Water was flowing when I left.

Yay....happy ending

We used to keep extra chain and hook to a tree and the rear wheel, would only pull about 2' at a time, but it would inch us out of a mess in a pinch. That's a bad feeling when you are miles off the beaten path... glad you got her rescued


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