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JDNSW
Go back a few days. I have a new next door neighbour to the north. He phoned me up and asked if I could take my tractor and blade up to the boundary and push out part of the boundary fence that needs replacing.
I agreed to have a look and see if it was dry enough. Yesterday I took the tractor up there, about 1.8km from the house. The fence area looked as if it was dry enough, but as it turned out - it wasn't. I got the blade up to the fence, and found myself with the front axle resting on the ground. I started by dragging some logs and a fallen fence post to the location and using the blade on them was able to lift the front wheels up a bit. Then got some bits of bark, and stuffed these under the front wheels. Putting the weight back on them just pushed the bark into the ground, which had assumed the consistency of melting icecream. After an hour and a half of this I decided I was not going to get it out, and set out on foot for home, carrying my 5l water bottle. Temperature was about 35C and sunny, and I was already exhausted. At the top of the second hill I got some phone coverage, so phoned my nephew, who lives 6km sout of me, and asked him to come and pick me up. I walked a bit further, then lay down in the shade until he arrived, and gave me a lift home.
This morning, starting at 0700 while it was still cool, I loaded the 2a with the chainsaw and a high lift jack and headed out, stopping about 100m from the tractor to pick up half a dozen sleeper backs* and a solid iron bark 'post' about 30cm diameter and 1.2m long.
Thus equipped, I was able to get a better lift with the blade, lifting the front wheels clear of the ground. I was able to cut lengths of sleeper back to fit the holes under the wheels, pushing them down with the tractor weight, and repeating with longer bits on top. Also cut some into short lengths to put corduroy under the LH back wheel that was starting to dig in. It then was able to be backed out. This process was complicated by the fact that the tractor battery has had it, so I had to jump start it, which meant moving the 2a onto some ground I was unsure of - but it did not sink.
Parked the tractor on solid ground, and went home, back at the house by 0800.
John
* Sleeper back. Over the period roughly 1960-1990 ironbark sleepers were cut on this place. If you think about it, trees are round, but sleepers are rectangular. The difference is left on site as sleeper backs, same length as sleepers (~2.2m), flat on one side and round on the other, typically about 5-10cm greatest thickness. These are in piles of hundreds, and the ironbark lasts for decades, even in the weather and lying on the ground - white ants only attack the sapwood, and don't even seem too keen on that.
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