Posted by 135 Fan on September 16, 2007 at 20:10:08 from (68.149.46.48):
In Reply to: Bent drawbar posted by Lanse on September 16, 2007 at 16:33:24:
Lanse, some of these guys are being pretty hard on you. Don't take it personally. It's from experience and quite possibly their own. We've all done some things with out thinking them through. That's all you did wrong. To make you feel better, I had a guy (30's) offer to pull me out of the ditch about 1/2 a mile away from land where I have a Cat with a loader and hoe. Anyway, he said he could pull me out. I have a 3/4 ton extended cab 4x4 and he had the same but only a 1/2 ton. He had a big nylon strap which was a good thing. It was icy on the road so he took off like an idiot with about 3 feet of slack in the strap. I had my truck in reverse. After about 4 pulls he moved me back about 15 feet. At the same time we were unhooking the strap a county grader came by and offered to pull me out. Thank god! The other guy looped the strap over my pintle hitch adaptor plate which was fine and wrapped it around his hitch. He used a heavy chain around his hitch to hook to the strap but when he tried to take the chain off it was jammed and he couldn't get it out. It served him right. I was going to walk down and get my Cat which I would have done if the grader hadn't come. The guy that tried to pull me out had the same problem as you. You both didn't have the right machine or equipment for the job. Just use a little common sense and think things through before you proceed and you'll be fine. I'd be pretty excited to get my first tractor too. Actually I was. I was about 15 when I came home and the new to us 8N was there. Luckily my dad has run lots of tractors and golf course equipment and done a lot of demo's so he taught me the proper way to run it. Dave
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