He should have bought a Kubota

brin · Feb 14, 2010

JOHNTHOMAS said:
I've found it's always easier to tell someone how they should have done something if your not there. I got a BX2200 with a MMM stuck up on top of a brush pile one time. I had a FEL and thought I could get out of anything. I couldn't. The outcome of that experience was to trade the BX2200 for a B7800 FEL for the higher ground clearance. Now, I could have got a chain saw and cut the brush pile up or maybe but I doubt it, got the MMM off. But a man was coming the next day with a Cat Front loader so I took the easy way out and told him to go get my tractor off the brush pile. To pay him back he came one time with a Cat dozer and his tracks froze and he couldn't get it to move. I got my B7800 and with FEL lifted his tracks enough to get them unstuck so he could get it to move off the trailer. I never let him live it down that it took a little Kubota to lift his CaT Dozer off his trailer.

Geez John, I am just curious but how in the world do you end up on your tractor and on top of a brush pile...Just wondering ?

manganos · Feb 14, 2010

I agree JohnThomas ...it is easier to be an armchair quaterback. WIth that being said that was back in 2003 and I'm a lot wiser now HAHAHA

JOHNTHOMAS · Feb 14, 2010

brin said:
Geez John, I am just curious but how in the world do you end up on your tractor and on top of a brush pile...Just wondering ?

I wondered if anyone would ask that. I have a hill side lot. When I was (Larry Hamilton actually) clearing my property, Larry on his dozer also did my neighbors, he pushed everything over on my lot. Picture a sloping lot with this big pile of trees and brush. Well I was pushing the "stuff" from the high side and there was a bunch of it. Small cedars, medium size cedars, limbs from big trees and even the big trees and stumps. As I was pushing from the high side to level it out and compact it (Playing with my tractor mostly) I got on top of the trees and brush because I felt invincible with my tractor with FEL, well I was on top of a pile that was probably 8 to 10 feet deep. That's how I got stuck on top of a brush pile.

When I was trying to pry and lever my tractor out there was no ground under me, just a web of trees and tree limbs.