[AT] Speaking of Stuck

[charlie hill]

In the late 60's as I recall I was at my uncle's house when the single axle 
fuel oil
truck came to fill his furnace oil.  There had been a light snow with some 
sleet
and it was lying on top of the frozen ground.  The oil truck wasn't stuck it 
was just
sitting on the ice and spinning it's wheels.  We went over to the 
neighboring farm
because that guy had bigger tractors.  He came to pull it out with a brand 
spanking
new Allis Chalmers D-19 that he was understandably proud of.   The man 
driving the
fuel truck with no disrespect intended said "do you recon that thing can 
pull me out?".
Well, Mr. Bland to offense anyway and in a tone not characteristic to the 
typically mild
mannered fellow he was he replied "if that chain is long enough for me to 
get my back
wheels out there on that highway (which was dry) I'll pull PART OF IT out."

As it turned out he pulled him out sitting on the snow covered ground 
without even bumping the
governor.  Thanks for causing me to recall that fine memory.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 1:49 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Speaking of Stuck

You got some valuable experience that day.
I have had a few days like that.  You ever pop a chain on a tractor trying 
to pull a car out of the bog and came way with only part of the car?

      From: Don <don.bowen at earthlink.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Speaking of Stuck

Another time and another silo.  This one was mounted at the top of a
small hill that we used for pasture and silage.  It was my job to back
the pickup into the silo to get a load and take to another pasture to
feed the cattle.  This was one of those cold days that started out cold
then the temperature dropped rapidly.  There was standing water in the
bottom of the silo but only had a thin layer of ice. While I was
scooping silage I watched the water in the bottom of the silo freeze
around the pickup.  It was cold so I left the pickup running to provide
me with a quick warm up so I was much longer in getting it loaded.  When
it was time to leave it was frozen in place.  I could not get it to
move.  Being a dumb kid I reved up that 6 cylinder then dumped the
clutch.  A lot of noise followed by some strange noises and it was
obvious nothing was going to move without some serious repairs.

Once again my uncle rescued us with the Crawler a few days later.  It
seemed that my clutch dump broke out the side of that three speed
transmission throwing gears making the set of strange noises.

-- 
Don Bowen      --AD0NB--

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