Re: How to get a 400 and Haybine unstuck.

Posted by Steve450 on June 17, 2004 at 06:20:16 from (65.124.109.123):

In Reply to: How to get a 400 and Haybine unstuck. posted by Kelly C on June 16, 2004 at 10:13:24:

Got my 656 stuck last year picking corn. We were just about done with for the year and the last part of the last field was on sort of an incline. Had the gravity wagon just about full with 3 rows left and thought I would make one more pass and hand pick the rest in to the back of the pick-up truck. The neighbor (a long time farmer)had came over to shoot the bull, and while he was talking to my buddy he noticed that he didn't like the way that I was ending the rows and turning around. He stopped me, just before making that last pass and suggested that I "go up over that way" to turn around instead of the way I had been going. I thought to myself that it looked a lot steeper then the way I had been going, but he has picked a heck of a lot more corn than I have. I turned around and came back up for that "last pass" and nosed the 656 in just the direction that he had said. Sure enough, the wheels broke loose and dug a hole and I was sitting facing up on the steepest part of the hill. I shut off the tractor and asked him where I should go now!! His reply, while laughing, was I'll go get my tractor. He came back with a JD 60 narrow front as his big tractor was in the shop. I knew that I could crawl out of the ruts if i could just un-hook the wagon so I suggested that he just hook a chain to the (full) wagon and hold it till I get out. Well , we did that and as soon as my buddy pulled the pin, the old 60 started sliding backwards. My buddy, in a blind leap of faith, jumped between the 60 and the wagon and swung the tongue so as the rear of the wagon would go up the hill. I think it was that same hand of god that saved someone else in another post that turned the wagon in just the right way so the rear tires landed in a dead furrow and the wagon stopped.
After a few moments of looking around and seeing that everyone was alive and moving, I un hooked the picker and hooked back up to the wagon and drove right out the way I had been going all day.

Two things were learned from this. The neighbor dosen't give tractor driving tips anymore, and I don't plant corn up on that hill.

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