I live down a very narrow county road and park my tractor in one of two dirt driveways on the south side of the house. Typically I drive around a two-mile block and back in from the driver-side. Today I took the truck out for a drive and tried to back into the little dirt driveway blind-side. Blind-siding into that driveway is a bit more difficult since the garbage cart is right at the corner of the driveway leaving little room for a sharp turn. On the opposite side of the road is a culvert. Well, anyway, I was backing in and had to put both steer tires into the mud on the opposite side of the road to get in. Both of them sunk all the way to the axle. I had the diff-lock turned on, but they just spun in the mud.

I hop out to see what the hell the problem is. I get back in, try rocking the mf back and forth. Nothing. I grab some flat hunks of concrete to wedge under the drives. Nothing. I get the shovel and dig out the steers. Nothing. I hook up a chain to my 4x4 pickup and have my sister gun it while I try to reverse. Nothing. The pickup just spins in the mud. I finally wind up having to call a local wrecker service. 300 bucks to pull the SOB a few feet! Damned rain! It ain't supposed to rain in Texas! :roll:

 

I know what you mean. But damn 300 bucks for s quick pull thats a rip off. But whathca gonna do. I guess you will be backing in on the driver side from now on. :lol:

 

i bet there is never a dull moment when nervous wreck is around.i was reading your snow chain thing when you said you had 2 of them.i got in trouble in wash state because i only had 8 of them.sound like you get around pretty good in that snow anyhow

 

I've been there, once had to get a wrecker to pull me out of my driveway because I got stuck, cost me 250 bucks to pull me about 30 ft

 

my John Deere 8630 has saved me a number of times backing into my spot witch is part of my corn feild. thank you to who ever creaked a 8 wheel drive tractor cause i have defenitly put it to use pulling my trucks around the feild.

 

Yeah, normally I drive around the block and back in driver-side where I actually have some room to manuever. This time I decided to be a smartass and try blind siding in. Ok. Lesson learned! And I just spent $700 on a laptop computer for the truck. $1000 in two days! 8)

 

The trick is to never slow down! Drive it like ya stole it!

Well... actually I'm an idiot... that's why I do what I do! 8)