Show your tractors

[Shansen]

Yeah, they're really hard to get out once the drawbar or the equalizer spring starts dragging in the dirt.

[Shansen]

One of my Dad's tricks was to chain a post or railroad tie to the tracks. It will lift the tractor up and give it tremendous traction for a little bit.

[Stephen Blair]

the one i got stuck was a drawit, it had a loader with a 4 in 1 bucket on, they are narrow with an overhanging back bit, it just wouldnt lift itself up and out, it was in a huge pile of composting woodchip, even the operator couldnt get it out lol

[Shansen]

Here is an antique. This belongs to my Dad and presumably if I outlive him I will get my mitts on it. It is a Caterpillar RD-6 and I think it was built in 1936. Big slow turning 3 cylinder diesel with a 2 cylinder gasoline starting motor. It was a very popular size of tractor and almost every farm in the area where I grew up had one or more during that time. Which was quite a bit before my time. Caterpillar tractors were very popular as the soil in the area I grew up in was clay and compacted very easily. The tracked tractors spread the weight over much more area than an equivalent wheel tractor and had better traction. The down side was you couldn't drive them down a paved road of course.

Edited April 9, 2010 by Shansen
Added another picture that I found.

[Shansen]

Here is a picture of the RD-6 pulling our CB Hays Standard model bean harvester.

[Stephen Blair]

dusty dusty! we dont see much dust over here lol. cracking pic

[Shansen]

We have plenty of it here. It's kind of unusual to have any significant rain between May and Octobern here. Relative humidity is routinely below 30%. We will get a muggy day in the summer occasionally.

[Stephen Blair]

it must be hard working in extreme heat, i usually take sunny days off and go and chill out with the kids and dogs and enjoy the weather, or start early and finish early. its a beautiful day here today infact, i think its about 18 degrees, the shorts are on and the top is coming off:thumbup:

[Shansen]

It is a bitch. The only saving grace is that because it is low humidity it cools off at night pretty good. So you can get out early in the morning and get your work done while it's not so hot. Farmers have recently begun having to provide cooling stations for workers with shade,drinking water, and misting fans.

[Brushcutter]

 

Valtra A95 with 10ish tonne trailer with a nackered Botex 5050 crane.

 

Valtra A95 Hishift with Valtra 45 Loader and Fransgard 6.5 tonne winch. Skidding 10' Chestnut poles.