Posted by Jimb2 on September 08, 2010 at 18:40:09 from (99.240.236.11):
In Reply to: Re: stuck in da MUD!!! posted by mike paulson on September 08, 2010 at 17:32:16:
Hi Mike, I would hate to scratch the paint on your beautiful 300U. Use with EXTREME CAUTION, we used to put a chain around the tire thru the hole between the hub and the rim avoiding the tire valve stem and hook the chain in the center of the tire. Now find a sturdy tree of at least 6" in diameter in a straight line behind the tractor wheel and hook the other end of the chain to the tree as close to the ground as possible. Now the rear wheel is a big drum for a winch. With tractor idling and in LO T/A Rev let the clutch out while holding the opposite wheel brake. The tractor should roll the chain under the tire pulling itself backwards. Sometimes as the chain wraps on the tire it will slip off the center of the tire, so spin the that wheel forward and take up the slack in the chain at the tree end. It is a little more difficult on a 300U as it doesn't have a differential lock, you either have to chain both wheels or apply the brake on the wheel without the chain to transfer all the power to the wheel with the chain. Today I would use a heavy poly rope and an old piece of carpet around the tree to protect it from damage. I am always VERY CAREFUL any time I pull anything with poly rope with a metal hook on the end as it acts like an elastic ban and the tractor operator will be its target. Read a story a few years ago in a farm mag of a farmer pulling a stuck truck with a poly rope with steel hook on the end, the hook let go, hook came flying back thru the rear window of tractor cab hitting operator in the head. The same chain a rear wheel to a tree can be used to pull tractor forward but if rear wheels are deeply bogged, when the pull comes on the chain the front end of tractor will go in the air so to prevent this run the chain or rope over the top of the front axle.
Before I get slammed on this site, I will explain the reason for this method of pulling a tractor out of a mud hole. We had a 300 acre wood lot 7 miles away from the home farm and we would take one tractor to the woodlot in the fall and leave it there until the snow got to deep to work. The wood lot had beaver swamps, creeks, mud holes and steep hills. So if you got stuck it was 14 miles round trip with to get the other tractor.
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