What if it Muds?

Yup, I learned that in my rookie year. A hard lesson learned....

 

I ran for R&L out of Norwalk Ohio for 8 years. Part of that time I spent as a floater covering all parts of our territory. We serve a sizable Amish area. Rolling hilly terrain. There was a weekly move of two to three skids of expired yougurt shipped to one Amish farm that added it to their animal feed. I’m a city boy I don’t know why they would do that. Regardless, I was there once in the summer and had no problem getting in with a manual tandem and 28’ pup. Went back in the winter once, kinda hovering around freezing but warm enough to be muddy. Got down in ok but started spinning out in mud as I tried to climb out. Amish farmer said , no problem he can help and would be back in fifteen minutes. No cell service so he was about my only option. I figured he would be coming back with a tractor or bobcat of some sort. He showed up with his son and four of the biggest horses I’ve ever seen. They hooked the team to the front of the truck, I put her in granny low and sure enough they were enough to get me the 150 yards or so up his farm drive to the hard packed dirt county road and away I went.

 

I used to carry some super strong tow straps, I got a tug a time or two.

never got stuck in mud but with the old leaf spring rigs it didn’t take much of a twist on the suspension and you could get stuck on pavement .

 

Stuck by Caterpillar Cowboy posted Apr 6, 2021 at 8:47 PM

When it muds... It can go from "If I just give er a little more onion I'll get right through this" to this picture.

 

What does it say on the DAC for getting stuck ?