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Alberta Phil 
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 6:05pm |
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Dave(inMA)
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 6:43pm |
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Can't say as I have! But with the rain coming tonight and the soggy ground from melting snow I might need that trick!
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dave63
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 6:50pm |
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Yup, Dad buried a 7000 with chisel plow back in the 70's and i watched him drive it out. I wouldn't endorse this as common practice. He did unhitch the chisel plow.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 6:55pm |
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I haven't done that but, my friend had the nose of his M downhill on some ice and snow once. He was afraid he would drop off the edge of the hill if he messed with it anymore. There was a loader on the M and with it off the ground the wheels just spun, chains were no help. I got 2 log chains, anchored one end to a big oak tree. The other end I ran thru the back wheel and hooked it with a couple feet of slack. I had him put the tractor in reverse and start turning the wheels while I let the back wheel wrap the chain around the axle. As the chain tightened, the tractor came uphill with ease. The bad part of the deal was, he thought he could do it the next spring when he got stuck in the mud cutting wood. He ended up replacing the right axle housing in the mud hole. I don't think he will do that again.
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Dave A
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 6:55pm |
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yes I have on a d 14 allis. Had one chain come loose and the pipe cought me in the back of the head. Came off the tractor, look up and seen the tractor moving across the field with a pipe flinging around. Then laid back down for a while. Dad was not happy. It works better if you chain a cement block across the tread
Edited by Dave A - 06 Mar 2011 at 6:56pm
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roughstock
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 7:33pm |
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I think the bigger trick was not burying the tractor axle deep trying to drive it out before getting the chain and log.
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 7:48pm |
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THE TRICK IS TO NOT GET STUCK IN THE FIRST PLACE OR GET A LOG SKIDDER TO PULL YOU OUT. sorry for the caps. I just realized it and not typing that again.
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hillmonkey
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 7:54pm |
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yes, have used that trick many times in So MI. in the late 60s unsticking my brothers farmall H. in the summer driving in the wet low land or towing a upsidedown car hood in the winter in the snow on shallow ponds. when it would break through the ice that was the only way we had to get it out. we would only chain a log to one side and lock up the brake as needed on the other side. of coarse i have done some dumb stuff too. hm
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hillmonkey
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 8:16pm |
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thats funny, somebody just posted the same thing on the dodge power wagon forum tonite. hm
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Darrell, Jr. (MN)
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 8:29pm |
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We had ground on the farm that had sink holes like that. We would be plowing and one pass you were fine, the next bam right to the axle before you could get your foot on the clutch. My Grandfather use to carry a small chain and a home sawed 4"x5"x 6' white Oak fence post and would use that to bring it right back to the surface. Then stop take the chain off and tie the post back on the tractor and keep right on going. One time we were plowing with 2 D17's and got stuck and I stopped to help him, and after he put the post back on his and was going to drive away I asked him what about me? He said I would drive by with the plow in the ground and never know there was a soft spot, and he was right. I used it a number of years later only to get stucker with the post now chained under the tire, I guess it was a little too soft that spring...lol
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 06 Mar 2011 at 9:01pm |
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Never saw it tied to the side of the tire,good thinking.Would have come in handy back in the day.
Hired hand buried D-17 up to axles in soft spot back in the woods.My Dad could not pull it out with other tractors.So they got a hedge log about 8 feet long.Dug out and laid in front of back tires.Chained both back tires tight to the log.1/2 revolution is all you get but it worked the first time.Dad said he has had to untie and retie a few times when they are really stuck.Said he saw some old boys get a bulldozer unstuck out of a creek a long time ago by tying logs to the tracks and walking it out a little at a time.
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