Re: The Stuckest I've Been
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Posted by Glenn Simpson on July 01, 1998 at 02:52:04:
In Reply to: The Stuckest I've Been posted by Janet Alexander on June 30, 1998 at 09:30:24:
: I know the stuckest I've ever been was about 20 years ago. We were farming a field that included a hill with lots of sand, gravel and rocks. It had been an unusually wet spring and we were finally able to get into the fields. I was disking. I knew I was in trouble when I hit some wet sand and bogged down. soon I began sinking. It didn't take long to realize I was in quick sand. That area had never been that wet an area before. This was before cellular phones. By the time I had run up to the house on that farm and used their phone and found my husband, the tractor had sunk even farther into the sand. By the time he got there it was up to the belly of the tractor. My husband hooked his largest tractor to it, but to no avail. He then called a local wrecker. The tractor had finally settled and had quit sinking. The wrecker team was unable to even budge the tractor. We were beginning to think we had buried it forever. The wrecker driver called in for help. They sent out their two biggest and heaviest wreckers and hooked them together. We in the meantime began to dig around the tractor places some of the large boulders in front of the wheels. It took quite a while, but we did finally get that tractor home. Well, I am just a youngster in the tractor field. Anyhow I got hold of a Drott (Inter 100b) with a real sad engine. After learning the hard way how to replace the wet liners (I managed to break two when they seated with a thud and the lip seperated from the bottom part)I got the crank sprayed and re-ground and fitted the new shells, cleaned the diesel-bug out of the tank. Put it all back together and it started first time. You can imagine my exhilaration.....
Anyway, I drive the 500m or so along the bitumen road (Highly illegal), down the driveway and parked her in the shed for the night.
The next weekend I went to have the first play at moving some dirt. I pulled her 10 feet out of the shed and sunk her up to her belly in the mud! Well as if this wasn't enough the local contractor who found her for me and his side-kick had to stroll along just then and stood back about 30 feet just laughing. Of couse after a half hour or so they taught me how to extract myself from the mire.
The sad end to that story is that the Inter crankshaft's don't like being metal sprayed (And I was the only one that didn't know) and she lasted just 10 hours before destroying the new shells and unfortunately I did not have the money or the heart to repeat the procedure. Stick to antique's I say....
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