Stuck in the muck .com

[gustgd]

Did you get stuck in the mud while farming this year? We want to see your photos!

Flaman Sales is looking for the dirtiest, the stickiest, the best "stuck" pictures for the chance to win some great prizes, like a new tow rope.




http://www.stuckinthemuck.com/allphotos.php

[checking]

Wasn't the embarassment of putting your machinery in that position in the first place enough that now you have to show the world your stupid behaviour? This shows that there really are no bounds, and that some farmers would prostitute themselves for a tow rope, or a carbon credit.

[Wheatking]

WTF is wrong with you checking. If you can't laugh at your self and your predicament and why bother.

[checking]

WTF, Wheatking must be the guy who won the tow rope!!!

The easy answer would be to say that nothing is wrong with me, but that would be a lie. It would also be a lie to say that Wheatking is 100%, even with his laughing ability.

[Wheatking]

You must be the farmer of all farmers if you never put yourself, your farm, or your machinery in that kind of predicament. You play the cards mother nature deals you, and if the B**** deals you 30" of rain well you have to get the crop off some how if that requires combining in the mud well so be it. I guess you would still be waiting to get your crop off since you would never put your machinery in that kind of situation. Or perhaps you are such a great farmer that you can control the weather so you would never have had the opportunity to get yourself in that situation. You deserve a cookie for being such a great farmer.

[checking]

Not to the point that I'd like to visually advertise, Wheatking. Pastry, I find a good doughnut helps me forget my mistakes. Are you offering?

Question - At what point did getting your machine stuck become funny to you?

Let me verbalize the event.

There is the initial thought that you can make it through there, even though you are on the edge of a teardrop well site, and yes 30"'s is about right for the rainfall total. (I don't even see the beginning of a muscle twitch to start a smile, but your brain counters with, "is this a smart decision?") Should always listen to the brain, especially when the eyes indicate to it that the standing winter wheat is a shade of grey!

Next, the first hint that the machine is going down. Response, "ship, I'd better stop, and see if I can back out." Whoops!, too late, as the wheels turn forward once to often, but don't gain ground, and the tires drop. (Chuckling - nope, but the header is lifted. Sure doesn't look like it though.)

Now what. Oh!, reverse. Well! WTF that didn't work. (Your brain still isn't telling you to laugh.)

Now out the door, on the platform, and looking for help. The hired graincart operator is shaking his head. (It isn't in laughter.)

Your feet hit what should be ground in one step. The brain says, "this is a four step ladder to the ground." Wrong!, but your feet have sunk at least two of those rungs. (Damn!, the boots are not happy either.)

The cartman is on the phone, asking the nearest combine operator to make his way over to be the flag man for the pull that's about to come. That's if the auger is high enough now to unload into the cart. Oh crap! (Not funny - not yet)

You get the point, Wheatking, nobody is laughing.

And when the tow rope breaks, slingshots back through the front windshield of the graincart tractor, but misses the hired man, well that's really funny and worth a picture, don't you think?

Humm!, we could use a new tow rope. Perhaps you now have competition.

[smallguy]

Well said checking!!! You think they would have a prize instead for those combine, cart, and truck drivers who were smart and talented enough not to get stuck.

[ajl]

Great photos. Glad others had the same experience as us last year and we are S. AB. desert. Now we have lots of snow on top of wet land so we can pull the drill out three times a day again next spring.

[gustgd]

Checking/ smallguy
If you have not laughed at yourself or others while having a cold beer at the end of the season, you need to lighten up.

[GreenValley]

A picture worth thousand words. This may show to Fed Gov't and hopefully these pull out get pay. Cuz crop insurance doesn't pay. Salute to Sask farmer who working hard to get crop in bin is bread basket food in Canada.

[checking]

Gustgd.

Are you offering a cold "light" beer to go with the cookie?

I know some people get their jollies chasing things that run on wheels. Flamen, Wheatking, and you apparently are that type.

Regardless of the amount of twisted metal in any stopped situation, it is not laughable for me. Nor is the lost time, or the repair bill when things go really wrong.

Sorry, but my natural reaction to this type of trouble whether in the present, or the past through picture gazing is generally "man, that poor bastard", and not a yuk fest.

Each to his own on what they consider to be funny.

[smallguy]

Once again well said checking. Gustgd, you should ask my neighbor if he lightened up and had a beer after $28,000 damage done to the combine. He would boot you in the balls. And NO it was not from reckless pulling, it is called DAM BAD LUCK.

[cottonpicken]

First you say you never seeded a crop,then you say
you have 1000 tons of flax in the bin and now your
laughin at farmers that get stuck?-3 strikes your a
geek

[checking]

I guess, cottonpicker, that was directed my way, although all three strikes to the geekdom you have established have been changed by you, or are 100% wrong.

Alcohol is a known killer of brain cells. This leads to an inability to understand what people are saying. Place the empties on the counter, and get some sleep.

[gustgd]

Checking/smallguy
I've had beer with all kinds of people from the most libertarian to the past president of the NFU.
I'm sure I could find something to talk about with you two.

Your right about one thing my first reaction is poor bastard, as I've been in similar situations. For the really bad ones a reaction is "There but for the grace of God, go I".


“Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox