Now this is a tractor!

[EddieWalker]

I have an area on my land that I will not drive anything over from the beginning of Spring, until the Summer heat dries it out. It looks fine, and parts of it are solid, but the areas that will swallow you up are spread out all over there and it's too risky to take the chance.

 

[MH8675309]

I've never seen a Fendt in person, but from everything I've read, they are about as good a brand as there is.

We see them here in Michigan. There are some huge Dutch dairies here and they use these foreign made machines. I saw a three headed Krone Mower that looked to be cutting at least 8 mph. They're common too. I have an 8 ft three point Krone mower I use for cutting hay and its well made and fast

 

[Sportsman762]

Speaking of wet fields;
Sometimes "geter-done" doesn't work well.

Wet fields and Geter-done is never a good mix. If you have to then you have to, and a few prayers help. However if you can afford to wait and then still decide to do it and get stuck then your either new to this work or an idiot. I use to have the geter-done problem, but age and experience has weaned me off it (#!ssed off fathers, and bosses helped)

 

[Hay Dude]

We see them here in Michigan. There are some huge Dutch dairies here and they use these foreign made machines. I saw a three headed Krone Mower that looked to be cutting at least 8 mph. They're common too. I have an 8 ft three point Krone mower I use for cutting hay and its well made and fast

Krone is the Fendt of Ag attachments. I have a Krone baler. Expensive to repair, but built like a tiger tank. 38,000lbs of german iron.
I might be buying a Krone tedder this year.

 

[RayIN]

Wet fields and Geter-done is never a good mix. If you have to then you have to, and a few prayers help. However if you can afford to wait and then still decide to do it and get stuck then your either new to this work or an idiot. I use to have the geter-done problem, but age and experience has weaned me off it (#!ssed off fathers, and bosses helped)

In that video, the guy operating the recovery track hoe does say it rained after the sprayer got buried/stuck.

 

[Hay Dude]

Wet fields and Geter-done is never a good mix. If you have to then you have to, and a few prayers help. However if you can afford to wait and then still decide to do it and get stuck then your either new to this work or an idiot. I use to have the geter-done problem, but age and experience has weaned me off it (#!ssed off fathers, and bosses helped)

Hmmmm. Well, I must have the “geter-done” or I won’t make as much money.
Farmers are up against time because of weather and crop damage if they don’t take chances.
If you don’t farm for a living, you really wouldn’t understand.

I figure for every 10 risks I take with getting stuck, 8 or 9 out of 10 times, I’ll make it.
The time I don’t make it? Well, lol….that’s what they make tow chains for.

 

[Sportsman762]

Farmers are up against time because of weather and crop damage if they don’t take chances.

I completely agree and it seems that the weather always goes to crud when the crops are ready for planting or harvest.

Wet fields and Geter-done is never a good mix. If you have to then you have to, and a few prayers help.

Wet fields are always a risk, and the "have to" moments is when I get into trouble these days. I view Geter-done as fool hardy and going out when you don't have too. There is a difference in my mind between, doing what you have to to finish the job, and the Geter-done taking excess risk that could be avoided. Perhaps my view on this is slanted as the folks who I know who say "geter-done" are the same ones that take excess risk.

@Hay Dude I have read enough of your posts to know that your not an excessive risk taker, but take calculated risks on what needs done. Experience keeps you out of the bad situations, unless there are limited options, in which case you mitigate the best you can.

 

[CalG]

I still lived in Fargo ND when Steiger Mfg. was putting out some high HP tractors.

I can't say what went wrong, but I did get to run a couple of them. Long days, 3 miles out, turn around and return. repeat for a couple of days, and the field is disced!

What did I know, I was just a kid and thought the money was great!

 

[Hay Dude]

I completely agree and it seems that the weather always goes to crud when the crops are ready for planting or harvest.

Wet fields are always a risk, and the "have to" moments is when I get into trouble these days. I view Geter-done as fool hardy and going out when you don't have too. There is a difference in my mind between, doing what you have to to finish the job, and the Geter-done taking excess risk that could be avoided. Perhaps my view on this is slanted as the folks who I know who say "geter-done" are the same ones that take excess risk.

@Hay Dude I have read enough of your posts to know that your not an excessive risk taker, but take calculated risks on what needs done. Experience keeps you out of the bad situations, unless there are limited options, in which case you mitigate the best you can.

I appreciate that. I feel like just being in the business is risky. Then you throw in taking additional risks, like “can I make it across this field” and it gets worse.

Sometimes I think the best rescue tool for a farmer is a backhoe or an excavator.


Backhoe better because it drives faster and once you put the outriggers down, the dipperstick can really pull stuck equipment out, but I’dlove to have a metal tracks excavator.

 

[Sportsman762]

Sometimes I think the best rescue tool for a farmer is a backhoe or an excavator.
Backhoe better because it drives faster and once you put the outriggers down, the dipperstick can really pull stuck equipment out,

Its amazing what a backhoe can pull. There have been times when I have had to get stuck, had a friend with the worst placed corncrib ever, and the only way was to pull in with the gravity feed boxes, then pull the tractor/wagon combo back out with the backhoe. I liked the Ford 655D as it had an extendahoe so you only had to reset the backhoe twice to drag everything out instead of the 3-4 resets it took with the 550 backhoe. Its darned hard to stick a backhoe to, I have buried past the frame in spots were I had to, then using the hoe and loader walked the backhoe back to firm ground. I wish I had a full sized industrial backhoe. But its impossible for me to justify.