Loadin' up a SuperC -- how much?

Neighbor asked me last night how much deadweight I thought my SuperC would drag. Seems a mutual friend has been enticed by scrap prices to haul all the clunkers out of his woods and clean his place up (a good idea!).

I need to go up and look the situation over before I'll agree to what I can do. The fella in question can be a bit of a cowboy, but I'm a nut about drawbar only hitches and know well the dangers of snags and the weird footing you can get into in the woods as opposed to open ground, and he isn't gonna persuade me to do something stupid. But I suspect it will be draggin', not rollin'.

Question is do you see any problem with a SuperC runnin' good draggin' out some old 5,000-pound Hudsons and DeSotos over a reasonably clear path to where the scrapman can get at them to load 'em up??

I'll post back on here, though, to let folks know what I've found.

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The neighbor that asked me about this has a lot lighter tractor but with a good bucket. I'm thinkin' we might need for him to get the edge of his bucket underneath where he can and tilt the bucket to try and break them free from the ground before I ever tie onto them to try and drag 'em out.

I wouldn't let the guy with the smaller tractor attempt to lift these things, but rockin' his bucket back, if he can get it under the edge, may get them loose to where I can drag 'em.

I'll go up tomorrow and look things over. A jillion things to look at, like you said. How hard are they stuck? What's the surface, what kind of paths can I get . . . ? If I think I can help, I'll try.

The least dangerous approach I can think of using the equipment that you have available would be to run a chain over the top of the car body and around a window pillar and try to turn it over. It would then slide a heck of a lot easier on its top.

This would require getting to the side of the car, though. You may have to take out some trees to get the cars out since some (or many) will have trees grown up through them.