Super C Saved The Day!!

Well long story long, today I was out back spreading horse manure. I usually spread it in the neighbors field out back. Well, for the last few weeks, we've had non stop rain here in Michigan. The ground has never really got too soft out in the field, like it does up by the barn after a lot of rain. I have a certain path that I usually spread on, but today for whatever reason, I decided to run along the edge of the field that butts up to our land. All was going good, until the old M dropped like a rock about a foot into the ground. It was one of those moments you just knew you weren't going to walk out of easy. I tried backing back out onto the harder ground, but with the fully loaded manure spreader, it just spun tires and didn't move. My only option was foward. I tried to just drive through it, and made it about 15-20 feet, and it just dug itself down further. By this point, I was almost late for work, and the only tractor I had near me was my Super C, so I walked over, hopped onto it, and drove out into the field. I had little faith in the tiny little SC even budging the big ol M and spreader, but I hooked a chain to it anyways, got onto some solid ground, and gave her a yank while my Uncle drove the M, and it yanked it right out like it was nothing! Sure wish I had my camera on me at the time, but I had to just grab some "after" pictures instead. So I grabbed some shots of the ground, the little SC that could, and the big ol M and spreader. Notice how the ground up by the barn is...and they're calling for more rain all week...awesome!!

Nice solid ground..that all of the sudden turned to quick mud.



Front tires just dug and dug and dug.



Water almost instantly came up from the ground.









Tried backing out of it, front tires just knifed themselves deeper, probably the weight of the loader off the front.



The Super C that saved the day!!





The M that could...'nt

I've learned (mainly from watching these old Farmalls work and pull) that the big tractors such as the "M" are slightly overrated in terms of pull power, but the little tractors such as the "C" and "140" have much more power than it seems like they ought to.
Have a nice evening, SF

PS: That Super C looks nice!

I have just ONE thing to say.... "Wide Front"

Well here's something else as long as I am logged in.. A Wide Front is what you need, and a 12 Volt Battery for Good Karma!

(quoted from post at 20:47:52 05/02/11) I have just ONE thing to say.... "Wide Front"

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Wide front wouldn't have helped the back tires get traction :lol:

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(quoted from post at 20:47:52 05/02/11) I have just ONE thing to say.... "Wide Front"

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Wide front wouldn't have helped the back tires get traction :lol:

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Great story! Love hearing about the triumphant smaller tractor! And I am still in search for a narrow front on my SC....I know so many people are going to harass me about wanting to go from wide to NF now.

That front end loader, coupled with the narrow front is what did you in. Not that it could be helped.

Sometimes "Stuck" just happens.

Gene

Hey Albo5000 , I have a narrow front off a 340 if it would fit , S.E.IN.

You have a good looking pair of work horses. I guess that they make quite a team together.

Stuck = Experiance! Eventually you'll know how to get through it or don't do it, an' sometimes it just can't be helped. What model is that spreader? It looks like a JR version of my 245. A good looking set of equipment you have there.

Mike

Your story reminds me of a fateful Christmas eve. I was plowing snow with my dads 35 horse kubota 4x4 and slid off the road as I cleaned out by our mailbox. Into the ditch I went. Tried to push myself out with the loader. Darn. No luck. Went an got my 4x4 truck. Got the chain hooked up and it croaked. Alternator's dead and so is the battery. Nuts!! I'm gonna be late for church at this rate. Hmmmmmm. Go get the cub lo-boy with the chains and the snowplow on. Its my last option. Pulled my 3/4 ton 4x4 up the drive and back into its spot. Drove back through darn near 2 feet of snow, plowing the whole way to the kubota. Neighbor came and drove the lo-boy and I drove the 'bota and out she came! I had to give dad heck about his fancy new 4x4 diesel tractor needing rescued by my old lo-boy!!

MAN !! You are lucky you got it out when you did, had you waited it would have ended up even a lot deeper..talk about WET ...YUCK..more like quicksand.
Brings back some spring memories in Indiana hauling manure through the dairy barn lot..can you say SQUISH...tried it in 3rd gear to make it across...needless to say.....I didn't make it......what a mess, full & heaped spreader behind a super H, pulled it out with a LONG chain & an M, I ended up just as covered in mud & (stuff) as the tractors, stripped off on the back porch & hosed down after that one. Grandma wouldn't let me or my clothes in the house!! I'll have to give her credit though, the next morning, those coveralls looked like it had never happened, to this day I don't know what she used, but they were clean as a whistle, more than I can say for the super H & the M, took me til noon the next day to get them cleaned up, Grandpa's orders ( and a bit of stern "advice" on avoiding that particular spot after a rain in the future)

(quoted from post at 20:46:23 05/03/11) MAN !! You are lucky you got it out when you did, had you waited it would have ended up even a lot deeper..talk about WET ...YUCK..more like quicksand.
Brings back some spring memories in Indiana hauling manure through the dairy barn lot..can you say SQUISH...tried it in 3rd gear to make it across...needless to say.....I didn't make it......what a mess, full & heaped spreader behind a super H, pulled it out with a LONG chain & an M, I ended up just as covered in mud & (stuff) as the tractors, stripped off on the back porch & hosed down after that one. Grandma wouldn't let me or my clothes in the house!! I'll have to give her credit though, the next morning, those coveralls looked like it had never happened, to this day I don't know what she used, but they were clean as a whistle, more than I can say for the super H & the M, took me til noon the next day to get them cleaned up, Grandpa's orders ( and a bit of stern "advice" on avoiding that particular spot after a rain in the future)

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I'm glad I got it out when I did too. Though it was before I was born, my Dad has told me stories and shown me pictures of when he parked our H on some soft ground once and didn't get to it in time..I'd have to imagine him getting it out was a little more difficult than getting my M out today.