[AT] Speaking of Stuck

[David Bruce]

Going back to the 1960's - my grandpa got his Allis D-14 stuck in a wet 
spot. Great uncle Bryce ribbed him about that but he did not help pull 
the tractor out of the mud.

Also going back to the 1980's - one lady I worked with was delivered in 
bad weather by her husband in a loaded fuel truck. He would drive up and 
walk her to the door then off to his bad day of delivering heating oil. 
I never met him but I always thought that was quite good.

David

NW NC


On 12/17/2016 10:19 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> 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
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>
> 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.
>