Re: stuck and troubled

Posted by the tractor vet on February 09, 2009 at 10:25:04 from (76.212.226.84):

In Reply to: stuck and troubled posted by ken in texas on February 09, 2009 at 08:33:23:

Spring of 88 the first year renting this one farm . This farm had not been plowed in 35 plus years and was use as free range cattle . This farm layed just a little way south of where the glacier stopped , Bit hilly but not to bad had nice long flat area next to the creek with close to twelve acres in it another 12 acres sorta flat for this part of the country a 24 acre flat field a ten acre field that was on a slight hillside AND then there was that six acres on a slight hill side with a grass water way. I had a 706 gasser and a set of 710 4 bottoms . From all the years of cattle being on it it was hard plowing and the first time that i ever has the ft. weight bracket full of 100 lb weights plus i had two 150 lb wheel weights hanging from a chain on the ft. The 706 was a narrow ft and with that much weight one soft spot and she was gone . I had a lot of trouble plowing because of it being so hard most of it was done in 2nd low with the T/A getting a real work out and with the ft. end two to three feet off the ground alot . All that was left was the 6 acres and i had maybe seven or eight more round to go and had not had a problem with the water way not so much as a trace of wetness . As i came up on the water way i lifted the ft of the plow and was just getting ready to lift the back as the ft wheels got out on to the water way and i backed out of the throttle and looked at the ft end to see if it was going to go down or go across , the ft. end started up the other side as i brought up the back of the plow and all of a sudden the ground just went out from under the tractor both side straight down . The plow was in over the top of the mold boards to the third bottom the platform was level with the ground , The tail wheel was better then a foot off the ground . Not a speck of mud on th tires . All i had at the time was my 3/4 ton 4x4 Ford a chain and a set of tire chains . Went and got a friend to help and we tryed with the pick up . That did not work . So went to another friend that had a fancy 1086 with new radials including suals ( He had money and was not affaid to spend it as he bought 4 brand new radials .) so he comes down with more chain and he tryed for a couple hours and we got nowhere , went over to a neighboring farmer that i did not know all that well but he had a 4840 . Well like all good farmers he came over to help and he told me that in all of his 6o years he has never seen anything like that . With the two tractor we never shook it we could not get the plows unhooked . So we gave up on that deal and i made a call to another friend and went and borrowed one of his dozers with a winch . It was a JD 550 and figured that it would get the job done. Not , After breaking the winch line twice i took it back and came back with the 750 JD with the hyster w6f winch and 1 1/8th cable on it . Figured that it was going to come out in one big piece or lots of little pieces . I had to set the dozer in by setting the blade down and spinning the tracks in to build up dirt behind the tracks and make deep holes to hold it . It did come out in one big piece with out any damage . The only thing that i can to this day figure out is that a auger hole from when they were mining coal up on the upper part of the farm had collapsed . While i had the 750 i filled in the hole and in all the time that i farmed the place never had any problems with it . Back then i did not have a camera to get pictures of that one But to all that did see it they all just shook there heads .

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