Old technology!

[near horse]

I just read the comments from jac and mitchmaine and one mentioned “stuck tractors”. That reminded me of a story I heard form an old resident here while I was in town recently.

He was telling me how these guys were clearing an area in the late fall with a good sized tractor and got ‘er stuck. So they got another much bigger tractor and, in trying to get the first one unstuck, proceeded to get that one stuck as well. They were figuring they’d have to wait until summer when things finally dried up to get both rigs out when one of ’em stopped and talked to an older fella who’d worked both in the woods and farming around here for a long time. This old guy said he figured he and his brother could get those tractors loose. So the next day all the guys are waiting to see if the two brothers can free up the rigs when the brother show up w/ an old Farmall H. All the boys start laughing seeing as the H didn’t have near the HP or weight as the 2 stuck rigs and therefore was going to be a complete failure. But the brothers brought a bunch of block n tackle pulleys or snatch blocks – whatever you want to call ’em. And they started anchoring to whatever they could – a tree over there, a stump here -the guy said it seemed like a spider web. When they hitched to their model H and pulled – out came the first rig and then the second.

That’s the story – the point being, nowadays we (and me) try to use HP and brute force to get something done when there are ways that “old tech” and a little finesse will do the job. Ah – pulleys!

[Rod]

I buried my Ford 3000 tractor with the bush hog on the back years ago up to the axle. I had to leave town for a couple of days but mentioned it to a friend. When I came back the tractor was sitting in my yard free from it’s predicament. What he and his brother did was chain a small log across the back wheels and walked it out of the muck.

[jac]

Rod you have saved the day. Thank you. Your idea worked a treat. We used a log across the back tyres and had about 6 moves before it came out, but it was awsome the way it worked. Thanks again… Another example of this site helping folks across continents.. long may it continue..
John

[lancek]

The biggest problem with getting unstuck like that is cleaning all the equipment after its done lol:D

[Big Horses]

NearHorse… the same happened to us. It was an old Scottish logger that lived here…..and he brought what looked like miles of cable and blocks…and hooked one end to the TD-35 that we had stuck, and the other end to his pickup…and away he went! When that all tightened up, that cat came out of there like nothing!! He just smiled and started to put it all back…no big deal. haha Gotta love it when the “old tech” overcomes all!!
John

[Big Horses]

Near Horse… about the same happened to us. It was an old Scottish logger that lived here…..and he brought what looked like miles of cable and blocks…and hooked one end to the TD-35 that we had stuck in the peat bog, a few blocks attached to various trees and such, and the other end to his pickup…and away he went! When that all tightened up, that cat came out of there like nothing!! He just smiled and started to put it all back…no big deal. haha Gotta love it when the “old tech” overcomes all!!
John

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