Anybody done this.
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Not exactly, but it was a bigger tractor in Monongahela River mud!
not that bad...
but my GF's mom did manage to get hers stuck in their front yard ( where the leech feild for their septic is) going out too soon after a big rain...
but my GF's mom did manage to get hers stuck in their front yard ( where the leech feild for their septic is) going out too soon after a big rain...
Bueller...? Bueller...? Bueller...?
No, but several people die every year doing this! Too close to a pond edge that gives away, the mower overturns, and the person drowns.
https://www.google.com/search?clien...-N8AM#vhid=MB5-1NBAdPnrcM&vssid=l&dlnr=1&ip=1
Years ago working in the Upper Peninsula forests, my boss attempted crossing a 4 foot wide drainage/beaver ditch with our dozer, not realizing the ditch was 4 feet deep. Of course it was late Friday afternoon and rain about 1 hour away. I got home about 10 pm, drenched and irritated. Had to get another dozer to pull it out. The next week was spent draining/flushing all the fluids.
https://www.google.com/search?clien...-N8AM#vhid=MB5-1NBAdPnrcM&vssid=l&dlnr=1&ip=1
Years ago working in the Upper Peninsula forests, my boss attempted crossing a 4 foot wide drainage/beaver ditch with our dozer, not realizing the ditch was 4 feet deep. Of course it was late Friday afternoon and rain about 1 hour away. I got home about 10 pm, drenched and irritated. Had to get another dozer to pull it out. The next week was spent draining/flushing all the fluids.
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I have not - though one time I did come way too close for comfort to a steep sided ditch on my zero.. was going too fast on damp grass and dove at the edge with the intent of snapping the front end right to avoid and it did not respond...had to panic jam it in reverse!
What happened to get you in that predicament?
What happened to get you in that predicament?
So, I have not but our landscapers did...bit scary actually and they are good guys. I was working in the home office, had my head down in some document or regulation and I hear yelling and see folks running outside the window. Look down and the mower is 1/2 submerged at an angle and one of the guys is being held in hip deep water and muck as his foot was under the deck. His co-workers grabbed a dock line and started to try and pull the mower off him, no way...there is a sharp ~2' drop to the water. I run downstairs and drive the Wife's Wrangler over, tie on a recovery strap, 4 low, feather the clutch and all was well. He did get a bit of a burn from the stack.
Gave them a few beers...they earned it.
Gave them a few beers...they earned it.
Funny you should post this. This started my predicament. For 15 yrs I have known where the mud/muck is in my fields but I thought it was dry enough to go thru. Nope. Got stuck and had to get the Ranger to tow it out of the mud and back up 100 yds to the house. I got almost to the house when the mower took a right turn and headed down toward the pond. Then the chain gave way and into the pond it went. It's so steep there that my Ranger would not pull it out. So my neighbor came down with his backhoe and pulled it up the hill. It was covered with snails. I rinsed it off and it started right up. Water didn't get to carb level thankfully but it did blow water out of the muffler for a while. It wasn't my day but I did luck out in the end.
Nice dock!
I mow the drainage swale around my property with my JD Garden Tractor. It occasionally slides into the swale and gets stuck. I've had to pull it out a number of times.
Not my property, but looks exactly like this:
Not my property, but looks exactly like this:
My dad. The family ranch has a fenced off 3 acre area with a rainy season pond. He was moving brush around with an 80s something riding mower and “things happened” and went straight in about 3 feet deep. I didn’t witness the how or really ask but we got some good chuckles. We pulled it out with a truck and it lived a few more years before being retired. I wish we still had it.