There's never a dull moment on the farm. The other day Chad called me from his cell phone. He said you need to bring the Backhoe down to the field, we have all 3 tractors stuck. I couldn't believe it, all 3!! Chad had cleared some sage brush this summer to turn the ground into farm ground. Well I don't know if water subs under this ground but it was a mess. This is the scene I saw as Tessa and I pulled into the field with the backhoe.
Chad was discing with the red tractor when he got stuck. Well they tried to pull it out with the John Deere only to get that stuck as well.
This is how we mud bog in Idaho.:)
The white case got stuck trying to roller harrow.
Chad tried to dig out in front of the tires with the backhoe.
It didn't work, the JD is still stuck. The backhoe was not much force in trying to pull it out.
In fact anywhere the backhoe went it got stuck. But Chad, being the great driver he is, can use the 2 buckets and push his way out. It kind of looks like a worm crawling across the ground.
digging his way back out of the field onto dryer ground
Chad and Marcelino accessing the situation. At this point I was glad I couldn't make out much of his vocabulary, I'm sure some of it was not very pleasant.
Pulling the JD free!!
Pulling the case free!!
They unhooked the disc from the red case so that they could pull the disc out backwards. This was quite the problem. The tires kept sinking so they kept having to dig out the tires with a shovel. The mud was wet clay and was hard shoveling. They finally got the disc out after breaking the chain 2 times. By this time I was ready to go home. I had been down there for 3 hours!! I didn't stick around to see them free the red tractor, Tessa and I had had enough.
If only we could look at problems through the eyes of a child. Tessa had a ball playing in the dirt and mud. When she needed a break she just sat down on the tongue of the disc.
Tessa even managed to make herself a little bed in one of the holes left by the backhoe.
what more could a kid ask for??
