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They say you can't get a back hoe stuck I guess I proved them wrong
Got called to go dig out a combine
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Fun on the farm
got a little to close to the slough and the tractor and heavy harrow sunk outta sight
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Fixing Roads
Trying to fix a road washed out by water and got too close to a very soft shoulder with a load of gravel on the truck.
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550 case w seed hawk
sprayer went right threw with no problems. but no big deal in 3 hrs we were back seeding.
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Why you shouldnt go with a full load when wet in field
Sprayer got stuck then 4 wheel drive got stuck trying to pull out sprayer then got another 4 wheel drive to pull out the other 4 wheel drive, reminds me of a Corb Lund song lol
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Case CX 240 Super Stuck
Digging in water line in a ditch East of Saskatoon. Little bit slough-y. Was backfilling the trench and took too big of a bucket... got a little stuck, tried to get unstuck and with each attempt sunk deeper and deeper. Had to hand-bomb several …
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High Clearance Sprayer Stuck To The Top
Local farmer near Elrose was finishing up spraying a field NW of Elrose but ended up getting stuck on the flat on top of a hill near a slough. This occurred on June 24, 2012 right when Elrose was getting belted with yet another shot of rain.
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Tough Haying
i was doing the second round and everything just sank!!
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Muddin' in the Jeep
GPS led us down a summer road which started out ok, but we ended up trying to get through the puddle seen, when we slid half way into it. BTW - the Jeep has a 3.5" lift kit and 35" tires.
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Miller Sprayer Spun Down In The Carmel Hills
Spraying land that was too wet to seed and has not been farmed in 7 years. Sunk the swather and front wheel assist Case in the same field earlier this spring trying to get it in shape to seed. We got two inches of rain in the last week and we wanted …
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now what!
we were called out to pull out a sask power bucket truck. after we pulled it out with 2 track hoes we went back in to level out the ruts and one hoe found a real soft spot!
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yep it was wet
well heavey harrowing and all was good untill i tried to edge a little closer to the water
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new gator stuck
well spraying pre burn fully loaded rounded the coner in front of me sand land oh ill be ok nope a wheeled stx 425 tractor stuck gets a 2nd sprayer unloads tries the quad nope that wouldnt pull it so pulled out backwards
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Most stuck in my life
We were trying to seed a small field. Wasted our time.
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JD 9300 Harrowing
Harrowing with the heavy harrows to try and dry out the land so we could seed it.
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Ruts
Tried crossing the ditch 3 or 4 times with no success so decided to try it from the other side. In doing so I dropped into an old set of ruts and dropped the nose in.
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Off roading on a road
A frost boil ate the neighbors grain truck during seeding time
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Soft spot
Took the family camping in the coulees near the Bow River. Got the motorhome royally stuck. By chance there was a fisherman nearby who gave my hubby a ride home to get a tractor. Got the tractor royally stuck(er). Had just enough cell phone battery …
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9/11 9120
Muskrat tunnels caved in next to a slough and underneath it was nothing short of quicksand.
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Good Job Sprayer Man
Getting stuck right off the bat then taking eight hours to pull it out!
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Stuck Seeding
Got stuck on flat land. Was still slowly moving forward so I never stopped. Luckily I was smart enough to stop before I was completly stuck and unable to move.
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The last 30 acres!
We were trying to seed the last 30 acres this spring, it was our son's birthday and we had people coming for supper, so we were in a rush to get finished. My husband Kevin sent his father over with the little tractor to make sure the ground was firm …
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Bad day at the lagoon
Emptying out the lagoon with 8345R John Deere with dragline!! Sunk it out of sight in gumbo muck!!!
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SERIOUS STUCK
Under ground spring opened through center of corral, water headed to grain bins, tried to dig a trench to divert the water, STUCK!!
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the ford got stuck
decided to take the ford out for a wheel and so we went into the bush and we were in this gully on the pipeline and i tried climbing up the other side of it and got like 4 feet from the top and spun out and come sliding back down. i tried turning us …
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Stuck Quads - May Long weekend.
After snowing overnight, the trails went from having puddles to having small lakes. I was the only one who didnt make it through.
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I dont think it'll grow here!!!!!!!!
was a little wet and a little soft where we went with the unit probably should've stayed out of there!!!
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Has anything real changed
This my grandfather getting pulled out few years ago. Not quite should of the year.
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In too deep
We were pipelineing in the spring with 1 ft. of topsoil and 8 ft. of quicksand underneath and before too long he was in too deep.
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My back alley
April 14, 2011 snow storm in the city, lost power, and had lots of snow. The alley was so wet from the spring melt that when the garbage truck went through a few days earlier, it chewed up the alley quite bad. They put up baracades but these guys …
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MF GC2400 VS MF 4880
The Mrs was tilling the garden and got stuck in a piece that was deep tilled last fall
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One Tough Rig Move
14 hours to move 2 pieces of equipment off of a lease with a bottomless road. With the end of the road in sight, both rig move trucks sank in a mixture of soil, clay, and wet sand. After numerous tows with 2 JD 9620's, multiple daisy chains (Tractor-…
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Grading Roads in Tide Lake Alberta
I was pulling up a shoulder on a oilfield road and grading along when all of a sudden down she went.
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Sprayer and a tractor stuck
Sprayer got stuck so we tried to pull it out with the Biderectional and it got stuck.
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Massey Ferguson stuck with manuer spreader
Trying to empty the manuer spreader in the field, hit a bump and went sideways into the soft spot of the field
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Bad Day at the Lagoon
Got too close to the edge of the lagoon and got stuck in there.
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2.5 inches of rain stoped the old 4020 in its tracks
not really sure what he was doing
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My Safety car stuck!!
Water erosion put a deep gulley in a track
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One Last Ride
Broken Steering Axle and water on both sides of the highway
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Spraying after the week of rain in the middle of June
We had to spray this durum crop even if were cutting ruts. Got the headland done and then went to make my first pass.... then i got stuck. Just like if it fell into a hole, but one i could not see.
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Fun In The Muck
This tractor suddenly hit a frost boil on the fourth round around a slough working uphill. The ground looked dry on top,but walking beside the tractor the ground would squirm under your feet. We snapped a good size tow rope on the 2nd or 3rd pull …
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Trying to seed in thr rain
It started raining and we had to cross some water. We got there but continued raining and didn't quite make it back.
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Mini Deere in the Mud
Watering the garden can prove its difficulties
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Launch To The Moon
Was spraying a spot in the field that apparently was more wet then it seemed. The full tank of water adding the extra weight did not help either. We then decided to pull it backwards and that did not work so great as you can see in the picture.
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Stuck in the Mud at Streamstown
it didn't look like a wet area.
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600 HP Big Bud Stuck with 56 foot airseeder
Seeding. My cousin did the getting stuck . NOTE: THIS WAS MY COUSIN'S TRACTOR NOT MINE I JUST CAME TO HIS AID. Soft squishy conditions. No apparent slough. She (600/50 Big Bud) went down to the frame.
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Double or nothing.
The 946 pulling the NH cultivator and tank just slowly sank into the mud. We tried pulling it out with the TJ450 , as we got near it sank away too.
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failed delivery
pulled in field to fill air seeder super b sunk
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help is NOT on the way
tractor got stuck and a helpful grader man driving by decided to help... didnt make it there.
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She is going to kill me! lol
Trying to keep up on the cutting of grass before, during, and between rains!
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not sure why they call them floaters
just another day in paradise
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big green stuck
just going to start seeding we filled up the tank and drove where we left off but we got stuck getting there
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Stuck in the Muck !
We got stuck trying to get through all the muck to they hay bales so we could feed the cows.
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john deer spun down
cultivating barly field after all the moisture we hade
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Floating muskeg
I know it's not farming equipment but do you know how hard it is to burry an Argo?
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