I don't want to come off as a jerk, but my grandpa, dad , and uncle used to do that several times a day before tile lines were used in later years. Many times they would have to lay / chain it to the front of both rear tires. They would have to stop the motion of the tractor once it got to the drawbar, unchain it and place it in front of the rear tires again.
Often they did not have the HP to go steady so they would jerk the front wheels off the ground, then hold the brake on (depressing the clutch). The weight of the front end would pull it back to the ground making no resistance of mud being pushed by the front wheels, when up in the air. As the front wheels came down it would kinda climb out of the hole, so to speak.
They did not have anything big to pull it out with, and often farmers only had one tractor, and if the horses could not pull it out they had to do something. Remember they did not have cell phones to call the neighbors either.
Ever wonder why there are so many old farmers missing fingers, hands etc? Also alot of them got killed doing this kind of stuff as well.
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