[AT] Speaking of Stuck

[Don]

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--