In my younger days, dad sent me out to harrow a field with the old IHC 300. He said there might be wet spots, go around them, this is just an early harrowing.
I drove out to the field, we had had a strong dry wind all forenoon, and the whole field looked dry, the surface got blown dry. Couldn't see any difference, as you typically can.
So i drove about 500 feet and buried the tractor.
Walked home, get dad, I could tell he was perturbed and said told you to go around the wet stuff. Gathered a chain and another tractot and we headed out there. Dad drove across the field and the bottom fell out, he sunk. He did keep going and get to firmer ground, but he wasn't pulling anything. I may have pointed out about then, see the ground all looks dry on top, but it isn't underneath. Hard to tell isn't it?
It was kinda quiet on his side of the conversation.
We got my tractor pulled out, meandered back to the field road, and went back home for another day.
Mom thought it was a funny story. I told it when dad wasn't in ear shot.....
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