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Farming a Little Too Wet in Illinois?

CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
StuckJD.jpg

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This was over by Watseka. It's probably made it to all the JD dealers and most of the IH by now.

There was a 48 row planter buried by Streator. It almost makes me wish went out and took a picture of that.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932
    edited November -1
    Pull off the planter and that thing would come out backwards.
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  • rdc5rdc5 Member Posts: 986 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cartod
    Pull off the planter and that thing would come out backwards.


    Exactly[;)]
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    uncouple and go..pull the planter out backwards, recouple and go faster next time[;)][:D]
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wonder if it takes GPS to tell him he is stuck?
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  • PSFD DONKEYPSFD DONKEY Member Posts: 771 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thats going to be hell trying to fill those ruts up
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Let 24 hrs go by, without rain, and she'll walk out, planter & all!![:D]
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jacobs dad was stuck worse than that, damn JD always letting you down[:D]
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  • penetraitorpenetraitor Member Posts: 3,870
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cartod
    Pull off the planter and that thing would come out backwards.


    Um[?] Since the soil isn't turned yet. Wouldn't that be a plow? Unless its a plow, disk and planter all in one. Not good enough pics to determine. I do know however the tires are doing a fine job of turning the soil over.

    Looks like about a six digit # stuck to me.
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    yep, see that dark haze amongst that corn stubble...that'd be wet you know[;)][:D]
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  • penetraitorpenetraitor Member Posts: 3,870
    edited November -1
    I guess it was turned once. Probably last year though.
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  • countryfarmercountryfarmer Member Posts: 4,552
    edited November -1
    Um Since the soil isn't turned yet. Wouldn't that be a plow? Unless its a plow, disk and planter all in one. Not good enough pics to determine. I do know however the tires are doing a fine job of turning the soil over.

    Looks like about a six digit # stuck to me.

    Just cause the soil isn't tilled doesn't mean he couldn't be planting. With No-till you don't disturb the residue on the surface. Looking at that pic though, it appears to be so type a soil conditioner, probably a chisel plow and some type of leveler combo.

    Six digit stuck is right, est cost of that tractor $150,000 or more and several ten thousand for the implement.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wonder if he would be stuck is he had the treads on.

    You see a lot of JD around here with treads on. Not being a farmer I don't know, but it would lessen the psi of the machine to the ground with treads.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Um, after the first few feet (down), you would think it would occur to you that you were going nowhere and doing it at a rapid rate of speed.[:I]
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  • 7RiverMan77RiverMan7 Member Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try finding a tractor bigger than that one to pull it out!

    After the second tractor is buried, wait until it dries up a little and just drive both out.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Alpine
    I wonder if he would be stuck is he had the treads on.

    You see a lot of JD around here with treads on. Not being a farmer I don't know, but it would lessen the psi of the machine to the ground with treads.

    That machine is ARTICULATED Alpine. If U put treads TRACKS on it, it wouldn't be able to turn.
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  • burdz19burdz19 Member Posts: 4,145
    edited November -1
    For those of us who grew up running fields, never in a rig that nice, that was either done by the youngest son or dad died behind the wheel......... [:D]
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    quote:Originally posted by Alpine
    I wonder if he would be stuck is he had the treads on.

    You see a lot of JD around here with treads on. Not being a farmer I don't know, but it would lessen the psi of the machine to the ground with treads.

    That machine is ARTICULATED Alpine. If U put treads TRACKS on it, it wouldn't be able to turn.



    You see, I'm not a farmer.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    looks like maybe it was time to get another tractor to pull it out many many revolutions of the tires ago....looks like they forgot to lock the differentials so they could have gotten all eight the same depth LOL...its that way every where even out here
    i planted my sprayer this morning brother planted my 4wd tractor and air seeder this afternoon.....its a muddy f@#ker everywhere
    oh yea that tractor is around 250,000 dollars and looks like it pry has a field cultivator behind it...


    was putting down Spartan and round up to notill sunflower into it

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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    oh yea the wheels didnt spin i was going along about 17 mph with a full load and it just dropped in....hoped to back out .....it did with a tractor pulling on it.
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  • hk-91hk-91 Member Posts: 10,050
    edited November -1
    damn are you sure he's/ she's not up here in ND. I have seen more of that in the last couple weeks then i have seen in years.
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  • shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    that is your run of the mill digger behind the original tractor, i have gotton MYSELF out of situations like that.

    unhook the digger, drive out. if good ground ahead of the tractor hook on with chain or else go behind digger and pull it out backwards. on our farm we have a JD 9430, 8870 and 9300t and also a ford 9880, every year we get at least one or two of the big tractors stuck[:D] good dirty fun. ill check to see if i have pictures on this computer and ill post if i do. up here in
    ND its wet as hell and we cant get anything done right now, guess the world will have to tighten its belt for now.
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  • Survivalist86Survivalist86 Member Posts: 3,105 ✭
    edited November -1
    You could always demand an additonal taxpayer subsidized welfare check and claim you now are putting in wetlands, in an effort to re-nativeize your farm. We the taxpayers are glad to give you money for not farming.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Survivalist86
    You could always demand an additonal taxpayer subsidized welfare check and claim you now are putting in wetlands, in an effort to re-nativeize your farm. We the taxpayers are glad to give you money for not farming.


    wulll.... thank you .......thats a hell of a good idea why in the hell didn't i think of that! gonna be on the phone with my senators monday....
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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    Thats what happens when you try to farm a drained wetland in a wet year!!!
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  • lkanneslkannes Member Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Did that once with a JD 8640 and a 28 ft disk. Unhooked the disk and walked the tractor out. Pulled the disk out backwards with about 100' of cable. Took me about 1/2 a day later in the year to close the ruts with the loader. Man was Dad pissed![:D]
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932
    edited November -1
    Call Triple A![:D]
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    http://www.deere.com/servlet/ProdCatProduct?tM=FR&pNbr=9630SRW

    Dont think they will be able to find one bigger to pull this boy out but I am not a tractor expert. "basic" model price is $300K plus
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    StuckJD3.jpg


    Look at the mud next to the tires. This idiot went through the mud, turned around, and went through it again.


    StuckJD4.jpg

    here, you can see this is the end of his first round.

    What an idiot.
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,007 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, i didn't take any pictures but I left an offset disk in the mud 2 weeks ago and it hasn't dried any since. Not sure if 100' of chain is enough to reach it but I'm not going to risk getting closer than that. I can look out over about 120 acres of flood water right now and could only get to the field with a jetski.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    articulated tractors are the BEST to put on tracks ...unlike rigid machines who have to brake or lose power to a track to turn an articulated tractor that hinges in the middle ALWAYS has both tracks running straight with frame & always pulling on ground any way you turn really cool but expensive...that's why you see a lot of construction using IHC pulling double set of pan scrapers ..whole set up is lots cheaper than big paddle scraper
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    local sprayer like willmar here got into underflow & sank rig down...the farmer came up with JD 4wd & "bllurp" it was outa sight so they got a dozer called in & it went "bllluurp" so called in big dozer that just pushed the muck out of around everything however deep it took till all were got out....haven't heard what the $$$$ was yet.....BIG hole in irrigated field that will probably dry up next august
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