?? 2WD or 4WD ??

springvalley · #21 04/10/12, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by sammyd

no farming ever got done before 4wd tractors showed up.

I`m with Sam, I don`t have a FWA tractor, and I have gotten stuck from time to time. But I would have gotten stuck anyway, fwa or not, when I get stuck, I get stuck. I try and plan ahead for the muddy weather that we have, and make sure I`m prepared for it. I can only remember one year when my Dad was still farming here that we had a set of chains on his 4020 JD, that is the tractor we used to haul manure everyday. We had so much snow that year that we need the chains for extra traction for hauling manure out to the field. Now your suppose to stock pile the manure to haul in the spring, so you didn`t have manure run off from the fields. I have over the years hauled much manure with a team of horses, snow and some mud, they don`t get stuck very easy. It has beeen my experience that if you have a vehicle that has four wheel drive, you sometimes do things that you would have other wise not been doing. > Thanks Marc

Maria · #22 04/10/12, 08:18 AM

My husband uses our front loader bucket to get our 2WD tractor unstuck. It's really something to see: the tractor hitching itself along by it's bucket.

I wish we had 4WD.

wildcat6 · #23 04/10/12, 08:24 AM

4wd for safety reasons.

sammyd · #24 04/10/12, 08:38 AM

been in mud so deep that the chopper and box were dragging along on their frames, tires were no where near the bottom of the rut. Had another tractor hooked to the chopper tractor with several chains and straps and ran on the road to help pull it along. Finally we went and rented a bigger 2wd to get the chopping done. Couldn't run the old narrow front John Deeres in the field at all unless we went backwards even then it was a gamble they'd get anywhere.
Doesn't seem to get that wet for corn season anymore though.