found a hole with brush hog

urbancase · Jul 24, 2019

hooked the bat wing brush hog up yesterday and want to mow some of the hills, have a water way that drains part of east field, was watching the wing of the cutter and bottom dropped out on one side. did not know a wash out started but weight of tractor caved it in dropped front and back both about 36 inches down in the hole. called oldest son up to bring chains and I walked up to the back farm and got the 2470 case out, we ended up using the 3 point to raise the front end and did hard right on the brake and walked it out. only thing hurt beside my pride was it crushed the left side step. but I do have a spare set I picked up on auction so will replace this weekend.

kcm.MN · Jul 25, 2019

Ouch!

SVcummins · Jul 25, 2019

I bet that was scary ! We dropped a case 7140 with a loader In a sink hole one time it was big enough all that was sticking out was the cab and the hind wheels took two 8400 John Deere?s to pull it out

TGP · Jul 25, 2019

Must be a trend.
Was out trimming the lake bank with the boom mower, and foud
This.

Had to lift it out.

Tom

Fawteen · Jul 25, 2019

I would have had to budget an extra $3.95 for a new pair of shorts too!

M-MAN · Jul 25, 2019

Your pride should be intact. Had it been the wheel on the other side it would have rolled. BTDT. No fun at all.

moresmoke · Jul 25, 2019

On the plus side you had two doors. I?da had to crawl out the window, not sure I want to do that any more.

SweetFeet · Jul 25, 2019

Oh, man - that had to make your heart flutter!

Makes me think of kcm's "Oops, it's Monday pictures!" that he posts.

SDE · Jul 25, 2019

Ran when parked

jeffcat · Jul 25, 2019

Man that would give you a sinking feeling. Definitely has the " O s....." factor and it happens so fast.!!!

Scott 730 · Jul 25, 2019

(quoted from post at 02:40:56 07/25/19) Must be a trend.
Was out trimming the lake bank with the boom mower, and foud
This.

Had to lift it out.

Tom

That happens here too from muskrats tunneling into the bank.

CCer · Jul 25, 2019

I had my Silver King tractor at a show one time, a Family walked by, looking it over. One of them asked if I wanted to buy another one. "Run Good."they said. I told them I was interested. We drove several hours to their farm. They said the tractor was 'round back. There it was, laying over. They said they were raking hay, hit a groundhog hole, and broke the axle off the side of the transmission. the axle and tire were lying elsewhere. I was thinking, "I have a housing, I can repair that." I looked further, the engine was locked tight. I looked it over more, and found other problems. I was still interested, until they told me the price, FIRM. The price was equal to a good, complete, working tractor! yeah, Ran When Parked. We left it there.

patiolant · Jul 25, 2019

That was my first thought too!

fixerupper · Jul 25, 2019

That's quite a ride. Hope the hitch on the mower wasn't bent. Course the hitch on that 86 is probably loose enough to prevent that.

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