Sunday afternoon Jason got the tractor running and headed out with Patrick to get some end of the season mowing done on the back 40. After a little while Patrick was done and Jason brought him back. He helped me sweep out some of the garage and Jason headed back out to mow before we needed to leave for youth fellowship at church. A short time later Jason came walking back- the tractor had gotten bogged down in some thick grass and stalled out. It would not restart. Bummer! So we all loaded into the truck and headed back to where the tractor was. Once we got the truck backed down into the little valley we hooked up the tractor. After a few attempts it started! Patrick and I drove the truck out and were getting ready to head back to the house when I looked back down to where the tractor was and things didn't look quite right. The front of the tractor was pointing up to the sky. In his attempts to get the tractor headed back up the hill it started to roll backwards and ended up rolling back into the dry creek bed!
After some discussion we headed back to the house to get the phone so we could call our neighbor with the nice 4-wheel drive tractor. Patrick and I rode in the truck but Jason wanted to walk. Fortunately, Rich was available and drove his tractor over. Patrick kept saying "It's stuck in the muck!" Chains were hooked up and the pulling began.
There was a lot of pulling, tires spinning, and more pulling. Our tractor would not start so Jason wasn't even able to spin his own tires to help with the process. I drove back down there with the hopes of starting the tractor. No luck. The tractor would turn over but nothing would catch. Rich and Jason decided to unhook the mower deck from our tractor to make the pulling a little easier. Once the mower deck was off, the tractor popped out with no trouble. Rich towed our tractor all the way back to the house which was great and now it sits in our garage hooked up to the trickle charger. If we can keep Jason from shooting it he might try and get it fixed so we can use it to plow this winter. I guess the rest of the mowing will have to wait.
The other adventure at our house today was our first snow! Patrick was very excited to put on his coat and go outside and catch his first snowflakes of the year.
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