OT photo - Grandson got the tractor stuck!

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Joe Van Evera in the U.P. of MI. on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 10:00 am:

Had to call the "tow grampa" to get it out!!!!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jason Given - St. Paul, MN on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 11:00 am:

He needs to get a set of Snow Devils under that tractor.

He looks to he having a fabulous time though


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Denny Seth - Jefferson, Ohio on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 11:16 am:

Well he may be stuck in snow and having fun with Grandpa but that is not stuck

THIS IS STUCK!




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George Andreasen on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 11:34 am:

You know, we have mud around here, but THAT'S MUD! I'm impressed.

Not to worry though. Summer's coming and you can just drive those babies out!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 04:05 pm:

Some years ago, I was driving through some farming country a day or two after one of Califunny's occasional very wet tropical storms had gone through. The fields were a giant mud patch. Out maybe a hundred yards from the road was an older pickup truck, mud to the top of the wheels. About fifty feet short of the pickup was a Jeep, similarly stuck in the trail left by the pickup. About a hundred feet short of the Jeep was a tractor, sunk down in a well churned mess of mud. Slogging through the mud walking toward the road were two teenage boys. Don't know what they were going to get this time?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Layden Butler on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 05:10 pm:

Wayne,
There is a reason why Holt Tractor developed the track system for California farming! They changed their name to Caterpillar as you probably know.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Anderson on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 05:28 pm:

Photo shopped. There are no tracks leading to the tractor or caterpillar.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Eckensviller - Thunder Bay, ON on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 07:56 pm:

Wayne, they must have been busy inspiring some music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDY6bWT5oTM


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Friday, March 16, 2018 - 09:27 pm:

Layden B, Yeah, I have a few family and friend connections to Holt history. Around 1915, my grandfather and his dad owned and ran one of the big track layer tractors all over many of the bean fields around what is now Los Angeles. They themselves farmed several acres of then farmland, and used their tractor for a fee to plow, disc, or grade other farms. Their rented ranch was right about where the Los Angeles International Airport is now. They drove that beast for miles around easing the burdens of many small ranchers in the area, making more money from the tractor than they did the ranch. However, bean farming was quite profitable in those days. My grandparents used to talk about after the bean harvest, they needed to guard the bean sacks all the time until they were delivered to the company that bought them from the farmers. Even my grandmother had to take her turn sitting with the sacks full of beans with a loaded shotgun! They used to say that nearly all the bean farmers in the area had to do that.
A friend's connection is that he owns the 1918 Studebaker touring car that had belonged to the Holt family in Stockton when it was new. Not that that detail would make it much more valuable, but still to me an interesting bit of history.

Tim E, Neat song! I enjoyed it. Thank you.

Another minor drift (of snow and non snow types). I just got back from a run to the store. Grass Valium suddenly got hit with about two inches of snow catching the whole town off guard! When I was done in the store, it took more than a half hour to get from the parking lot onto the on-ramp to the freeway (a distance of less than a half mile)!!! Cars were smashed into the center divide, many more stuck on minor grades. One !&!@+ ahead of me was attempting to drive (?) his 4X4 pickup obviously not set in four wheel drive mode going up a small hill and trying to maneuver around two stalled cars! He was skidding and spinning his one tire so wildly he couldn't control it one bit!
I swear, if half of the people in this county ever learned how to drive properly? The world in shock would fall off its axis and drop into the sun.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Marv Konrad (Green Bay Area) on Saturday, March 17, 2018 - 01:00 am:

-Wayne-
Was going to say "Come to Wisconsin, and we'll show you how to drive in that stuff." Thought for about two seconds, then realized we've got 'those of our own' who will drive like the invincible idiots they are, but believe they're smarter than everyone else... Somebody else is an obstacle on THEIR road!
I suspect Joe V. has seen more than his share of them in the U.P. as well. Sometimes, one's age may provide some sensibility of knowing when to just hunker-down.
Any chance Congress could legislate a requirement of 'common sense'????

"Happy T-ing!"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Schedler, Sacramento on Saturday, March 17, 2018 - 01:25 am:

I found a well with a 15X15 hidden opening. It was very

deep


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Layden Butler on Saturday, March 17, 2018 - 12:43 pm:

Wayne,
Years ago I saw an Idaho mint farmer's harvest being transported. The whole harvest of mint oil was in barrels on one flatbed truck. All the relatives were there with the neighbors too, armed to the teeth and filling the flatbed and 2 accompanying pickups.
I stayed well back not wanting to even by accident get in the middle of that group.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Saturday, March 17, 2018 - 04:26 pm:

That is interesting, Layden B, I wonder how mint farmers process the plants to extract the oil? The mint plants I have seen (my mom grew some when I was a little kid) were quite small, but very aromatic! I wonder what a few acres of mint would be like? I imagine a lot of plants make a little bit of powerful mint oil for popular flavoring. That oil probably sells for a lot of dollars per gallon!?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Floyd Voie - Chehalis, Washington on Sunday, March 18, 2018 - 12:35 am:

Hello Wayne,
Chehalis WA. is known as the mint city. There is a mint processing plant right next to one of the main streets in town. When you drive by and the mint is being processed ....yes, very aromatic!
and yes, very expensive in concentrate.
Floyd


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