The spring started out wet, then as it was barely getting fit to work, we got nearly 4 inches of rain in mid-May, and it just won’t dry out since then.
Our latest getting stuck adventure.
That’s a Terragator. The tires as you can see are enormously wide and the machine will float across almost anything. But the driver hit a wet pocket and the back wheel is nearly completely buried.
Our good neighbor Todd Gross just happened to have his bulldozer in the adjoining field. He came over and looked at it and said he could try to pull it with the dozer, but he recommended calling in the big guns.
The big gun is Campbell’s 6 wheel drive wrecker. The thing is a monster that will go anywhere and has a winch that will generate 150 tons of pulling force. We parked the dozer next to the wrecker, passed the cable from the winch through 3 pulleys (Remember high school science? Each pulley doubles the amount you can pull.) and hooked the cable end to the dozer for an anchor.
Campbell fired up the winch and it pulled the dozer ahead about 3 feet until the blade bit deep enough to anchor it. And slowly the Terragator came out.
We spread the rest of the field without incident, after carefully scouting for any other hidden wet holes. Campbell stayed around until we were done, to avoid getting 30 minutes down the road and getting a call back.
It is amazing to watch a pro handle the kinds of forces it took to get that Terragator back on top of the ground.
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