Why even try??

flying belgian · Apr 11, 2020

The neighbor that I custom organic farm has a manure lagoon on the place from the old cattle feedlot. With all the rain from the last 3 seasons the level of water in lagoon is higher then the farmland around it. That pressure makes 30 ft. of farmland saturated. Like a fool I got in there with the grain drill yesterday and got stuck. Why do I try and get as close as possible? If that 1/4 acre is going to make or break the owner, he has bigger problems and if by chance I could have gotten through there, nothing will grow anyway.

Philip d · Apr 11, 2020

Been there done that,I think it?s a mater of the just one more round syndrome that gets us.

SVcummins · Apr 11, 2020

Hold on to the willow bush while I make another round

David G · Apr 11, 2020

I got in a known wet patch today too, thought maybe it is dry enough

tomstractorsandtoys · Apr 11, 2020

You did not do anything the rest of us have not done. We think just a little more and a little more untill we are stuck then look at where we are and think that sure was stupid.We also tend to not stop trying to get out untill we have buried everything hopelessly. Then the wife says "What were you thinking or Why weren't you thinking". Tom

4520BW · Apr 11, 2020

Having a 4wd or fwa tractor gives you a false sense of being able to make it. I got 4wd deere stuck and my neighbor pulled me out with his tracked cat and then to show off for pulling out a deere he was going to disc my ruts shut. He did not make it as far as i did!

Ron Muhlenkamp · Apr 12, 2020

My wife put me on a budget.
She?ll only pull me out twice a year.

John in Mich · Apr 12, 2020

Getting stuck every year in the spring was an annual tradition. My wife used to taunt me about it. I even got stuck once trying to roll my lawn with a one ton asphalt roller. It sunk about...1/4"? LOL And, I had to ask her to drive the tractor to pull me out. City girl's first (and last) time EVER!
I don't do any of that anymore. Down to 3 acres with house, barn, small shed, lots of trees and grass.
I just completed digging a 24x40x10" hole and filled it with asphalt millings to park my trailers on and used the dirt to regrade my back yard. Waiting for confinemet...oops stay home order to be lifted so that I can buy some straw to cover grass sead.
I had granddaughter help me shoot grades to be sure water won't puddle in the yard. I have an old White transit and grade stick. She is 17 and learning new things while being out of school for the year.
To celebrate a good job we took my '51 and '52 8Ns for a spin around the neighborhood.

Why even try??

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