[AT] Continuing "What to do"

[Herb Metz]

Note in Ralph's situation, he early on recognized that the front wheels were 
stuck beyond the condition where the back wheels could pull him out. At that 
point, using the paddle effect of the front bucket would provide the small 
assist necessary to back out. We have all seen situations where the operator 
would not admit being stuck and continued attempting back and forth movement 
until they had buried the tractor. I did that one time, took two neighbor 
tractors to get our tractor out; never did that one again. Herb(GA)

-----Original Message----- 
From: rlgoss at twc.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 9:57 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Continuing "What to do"

It was a receding forehead moment for me the first time I saw it done.  The 
technique is pretty simple, but you have to have patience to be satisfied 
with moving just a foot or so at a time.  It's not a Wham, Bam, Thank you 
Ma'am kind of operation. I found it doesn't work when the scarifier's on the 
Gill that I use as a counter-weight dig in on the 3-point.

Larry

---- Dennis Johnson <moscowengnr at outlook.com> wrote:
> Ralph, Larry,
>
> Maybe I need to practice being stuck more to develop that. Tried it 
> earlier without a lot of success.
>
> Thanks
> Dennis
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jan 11, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 1/11/2016 10:26 PM, rlgoss at twc.com wrote:
> >> Humm.  Usually, I could just put the bucket down with in the full dump 
> >> position, and then walk the whole tractor backwards by using the curl 
> >> control on the bucket.  That technique would even let me back up hill 
> >> to get out of mud.
> >>
> >>
> >> Larry
> > Exactly what I was thinking Larry. You saved me the trouble of typing
> > it. I can only recall being stuck once with the Massey, bad enough that
> > I needed another tractor to pull it out.
> > And that was when I had the bale fork on the loader and couldn't use
> > that method of pushing the tractor back out of the hole I had sunk into.
> > I've used that tractor and loader year round for pretty near 20 years
> > and got by ok with two wheel drive. I'll admit it would be nice to have
> > front
> > wheel assist but its not an option on this 52 year old tractor so I've
> > developed the necessary driving style to make it work.
> >
> > Ralph in Sask.
> >
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