[AT] Continuing "What to do"

[Mike M]

On my Massey, my bucket would not articulate as far as Ralph's, the best 
it would do was straight up and down with the cutting edge pushing into 
the mud. I could push it all the way in, but that would not give me much 
rearward thrust because I was trying move the tractor, plus all the mud. 
My best success was to use some pallets to lift the front out of the 
mud, then try to back off the pallets. Sometimes it worked other times 
it buried the pallets 2 feet into the muck.

Mike M


On 1/12/2016 12:09 AM, Ralph Goff 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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