Posted by JML755 on August 08, 2016 at 10:49:29 from (97.78.165.213):
As you guys know, stuff happens fast. I've got a creek on my property and I always stay away from the overgrown bank. In fact, when I cut up trees that fall across the path next to it, I stack the 18" long logs on the edge of the bank and know that if I use them as "markers", I'm pretty safe with the tractor.
Anyway, I was mowing along it yesterday and hit a small pile of cut-up logs that had evidently fallen over and I didn't see them. The mower clattered over it and I looked back for a second. In the meantime, I felt the front end bounce up and to the right TOWARDS THE CREEK. I turned a little to the left to move back into the path and felt forward progress stop dead and the back wheels (still moving) start to slide TO THE RIGHT! I jumped on the clutch and prepared to jump off but everything stabilized. I cleared the brush from around the tractor and found that I had run over a log which caused the front end to jump but the real problem was that the front end and axle landed on a pile of BIG (10-12") logs that they got hung up on when the jump to the right occurred. Since it was around 4:00 PM, I was alone, I had no tools to free the front end, no vehicle to chain to and assist, I decided to leave it and come back with help this coming weekend. For a few seconds, I considered just backing out but being so close to the bank, discretion got the better part of valor. Laughing
It looks like it should come back out easy, the current angle isn't "too bad" but everything to the right is downhill into the creek at a steeper slope.
I figure with a big chain and a pickup truck pulling low to the left on the brush hog, a clear tractor undercarriage and a little care, I should avoid a much bigger problem of a tractor on its side in a ditch. I'll let you know how it comes out. Some of you guys may have been in stickier situations but this is about as "sticky" as I've ever been with my 3600.
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