We started planting corn today. We deployed by the dawn’s early light.
Tom and I tweaked the corn planter and got it all set up and planting like a champ. Conditions were great and it was planting like a dream. I was finishing up the last outside round when the bottom fell out.
Literally.
It looks like it was a drainage tile that failed and the soil around it went down the tile. But there was still about a foot of topsoil over the cavity, so I had no clue until the ground disappeared under the front tire.
The cavity under there was easily 6 feet around and 4 feet deep.
The saddle tanks were nearly full, so there was around 4000 or 5000 pounds of extra weight and the tractor wouldn’t budge from the hole. We pumped the fertilizer out, dug the soil away from behind the tire, and it backed right out.
Tom got in the hole to provide some perspective. I told him I wasn’t pulling him out if it collapsed on him.
All’s well that ends well.
Nothing was broken and we were back to planting in no time.
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