[AT] Speaking of Stuck

[Doug Tallman]

I remember my Dad trying to get a model A ford started and having Mom 
pull him with the car. She jerked the chain and took off down the street 
dragging the front bumper of the model A. He wasn't too happy!

On 12/16/2016 1:49 PM, tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> 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.
>