What a Week

Posted by John In Iowa on May 20, 2001 at 06:10:40 from (199.108.164.35):

As some of you know, it has been a challenge to plant this year here in northern Iowa with all the frost boils in the fields and all the rain that we have had. Been helping my neighbor by disking the wet spots ahead of his JD 5020 with my Farmall 400 pulling a 13 foot disk to open up the ground to dry. Got in one corner of a field went down 3 times, but was able to get out by unhooking the disk and then pull the disk out with a chain. Finally had to give up and wait for more dry weather. Bringing the equipment home had to stop and pull his JD 730 out with his six row planter on the back out of a frost boil in a different field (730 has a narrow front, my 400 has a wide front). Next day he got in the same frost boil that I did with the 5020 and sunk to the axle. We took both the 730 and the 400 over to pull it out. Went we got to the field a friendly neighbor stop by to lend a hand. While his was walking across the field we decided to just use the 400 to pop the 5020 out of the hole and if the 400 went down we had the 730 to get it out. After our friendly neighbor got there and realize what we were planing, he started laughing and rolling on the ground saying that there was no way that OLD 400 was going to pull that 5020 out. Well things went as planed, Drop the old girl down in low and didn’t even spin a tire and we had the 5020 on dry ground then stop to pick the neighbor jaw off the ground. I’m sure you all know what he said next, “ If I didn’t see it with my own eyes I would never would believe it.”

John In Iowa

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