05-21-2009, 06:02 AM
the long rut is a normal furow, looking at the back of the tractor what you cant see is the two bottom plow that sank compleatly in to the ground. the yellow sticking up is the plow frame.
in that furow you called a long rut was a soup hole under the sod, and when I hit it, I though I was going under with the tractor... I mean, it went down fast like a boat some one dropped an ancor though the floor. I was looking for a place to jump ship, but there was no place to go.....
I had been complaining for the last couple weeks that the ground was too wet to plow, I aint hearing any more complaints of not getting the job done now [laugh][sly][
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both me and the tractor came out with out a scratch, the plow was a little muddy, I had to un hitch it and rap a chain around it and pull it back out of the ground with the tractor while it was still soft...
I went back today to fill in the hole, I stepped in to measure how deap it was, It was above my waist...[shocked]
I just found out this morning that this was the area a perk test was taken, I dont realy think that had anything to do with it, but would have been nice to know.... There is susposed to be two more perk test ares in that feild, I cant wait...[sly][laugh]
I have seen this happen before to some one else, but insted of hitting a soup hole they hit a ground hog hole... needless to say it resulted in the same results.. seeing it from behind while it was happening was a scary site to see, but living first hand it was and the only way I can best explain it is, being a rat in a sinking ship looking for something to climb on... I now understand why old farmer Mc Donald "fictatious name" wanted a beer or two before he started plowing and a shot for lunch....[laugh] It might also explain the loss of fur under his hat too...[:p]
today I had better luck with the tractor, I was going to tighten the watter pump belt, but when I went to the threads were rusted tight, so I put penitratioin oil on the threads and moved on to electrical then on to giving it a second oil chainge in a week, it sure needed it, the first change the oil came out chuncky monkey stile, today it cam out black molasis..
I put the new oil and filter in, then started it up to see if I could see any leaks... we were good, for five seconds that is, then oil started gushing out all over the place... that thin plastic oil presure hose busted at the nut...
remember I said I had good luck [:p] Indeed it was good luck, because the tractor was in the barn when the presure hose broke and not in the feild. [cool]
like I said I have seen them go down, but this was my first at going down on one...[:p] Remind me to tell you about the time I stepped in to quick sand, and yes aposed to popular concences I did survive the experience... [:p]
I saw one get stuck in irish hills a few years back, a big one, the axles were five feet over my head and all the tires were sunk to the axles. to top that off, there were six semi tractors all chained together stuck in line from trying to get out the tractor... they did get it out, two weeks later after the feild dried up....
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in that furow you called a long rut was a soup hole under the sod, and when I hit it, I though I was going under with the tractor... I mean, it went down fast like a boat some one dropped an ancor though the floor. I was looking for a place to jump ship, but there was no place to go.....
I had been complaining for the last couple weeks that the ground was too wet to plow, I aint hearing any more complaints of not getting the job done now [laugh][sly][
]both me and the tractor came out with out a scratch, the plow was a little muddy, I had to un hitch it and rap a chain around it and pull it back out of the ground with the tractor while it was still soft...
I went back today to fill in the hole, I stepped in to measure how deap it was, It was above my waist...[shocked]
I just found out this morning that this was the area a perk test was taken, I dont realy think that had anything to do with it, but would have been nice to know.... There is susposed to be two more perk test ares in that feild, I cant wait...[sly][laugh]
I have seen this happen before to some one else, but insted of hitting a soup hole they hit a ground hog hole... needless to say it resulted in the same results.. seeing it from behind while it was happening was a scary site to see, but living first hand it was and the only way I can best explain it is, being a rat in a sinking ship looking for something to climb on... I now understand why old farmer Mc Donald "fictatious name" wanted a beer or two before he started plowing and a shot for lunch....[laugh] It might also explain the loss of fur under his hat too...[:p]
today I had better luck with the tractor, I was going to tighten the watter pump belt, but when I went to the threads were rusted tight, so I put penitratioin oil on the threads and moved on to electrical then on to giving it a second oil chainge in a week, it sure needed it, the first change the oil came out chuncky monkey stile, today it cam out black molasis..
I put the new oil and filter in, then started it up to see if I could see any leaks... we were good, for five seconds that is, then oil started gushing out all over the place... that thin plastic oil presure hose busted at the nut...
remember I said I had good luck [:p] Indeed it was good luck, because the tractor was in the barn when the presure hose broke and not in the feild. [cool]
like I said I have seen them go down, but this was my first at going down on one...[:p] Remind me to tell you about the time I stepped in to quick sand, and yes aposed to popular concences I did survive the experience... [:p]
I saw one get stuck in irish hills a few years back, a big one, the axles were five feet over my head and all the tires were sunk to the axles. to top that off, there were six semi tractors all chained together stuck in line from trying to get out the tractor... they did get it out, two weeks later after the feild dried up....
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