Have you ever got your 4x4 Dodge 3500 truck stuck in mud... took your 4x4 Chevy Suburban all the way over there to the pasture to pull it out... and couldn't budge it?
Then you take your tractor over and get it out once. Yes. It's out! But... it gets stuck again with your wife driving. You try to pull it out with the tractor again, but then, get the tractor stuck?
Dodge sunk into the sod up to the running board on one side. Tractor sunk in the sod at least a foot and a half deep.
You walk half way home, 1/2 mile, think of how will you possibly get by without your Dodge 3500 until the ground dries out enough to drive out of that coulee.
You will run out of diesel and not be able to haul any in your pickup truck 100 gallon tank, to fuel all your farm equipment that you use to feed cows and generally do everything that needs to be done on your ranch.
You wife starts coming up with all kinds of crazy ideas of how you could somehow jack up the Dodge, put rocks or something into the giant holes that the wheels are sunk into and things like that. You think of everything wrong with her ideas, then you remember that the tractor has a farmhand loader on the front of it! You can use the loader to lift and push the tractor, maybe getting it out that way. But it's SO far to walk back now.
Wife says let's go try it! So you walk back and start the tractor. Space is kind of tight, since you backed the tractor up to the front of the pickup truck before it got stuck too.
Douglas did it, he used a rather awkward farmhand loader to get the tractor unstuck.
This time he parks tractor and drives Dodge himself, promptly once again dropping through soft sod on the hillside slope, and becoming instantly stuck again.
Now, backing up to the Dodge rear pulling it out backwards, he towed it all the way out of this muddy coulee over the hill and onto dry ground, with the big blue tractor.
Some days are like that I guess.
Then you take your tractor over and get it out once. Yes. It's out! But... it gets stuck again with your wife driving. You try to pull it out with the tractor again, but then, get the tractor stuck?
Dodge sunk into the sod up to the running board on one side. Tractor sunk in the sod at least a foot and a half deep.
You walk half way home, 1/2 mile, think of how will you possibly get by without your Dodge 3500 until the ground dries out enough to drive out of that coulee.
You will run out of diesel and not be able to haul any in your pickup truck 100 gallon tank, to fuel all your farm equipment that you use to feed cows and generally do everything that needs to be done on your ranch.
You wife starts coming up with all kinds of crazy ideas of how you could somehow jack up the Dodge, put rocks or something into the giant holes that the wheels are sunk into and things like that. You think of everything wrong with her ideas, then you remember that the tractor has a farmhand loader on the front of it! You can use the loader to lift and push the tractor, maybe getting it out that way. But it's SO far to walk back now.
Wife says let's go try it! So you walk back and start the tractor. Space is kind of tight, since you backed the tractor up to the front of the pickup truck before it got stuck too.
Douglas did it, he used a rather awkward farmhand loader to get the tractor unstuck.
This time he parks tractor and drives Dodge himself, promptly once again dropping through soft sod on the hillside slope, and becoming instantly stuck again.
Now, backing up to the Dodge rear pulling it out backwards, he towed it all the way out of this muddy coulee over the hill and onto dry ground, with the big blue tractor.
Some days are like that I guess.