Tractor, Truck And Backhoe Pull

On Sunday, we got up and headed off to church. We had just sat down when Jay’s phone rang. It was Jay’s mom and she wanted to know what we were doing. Jay told her that we had just gotten to church and it was about to start. She then asked if there was any way that we could go to their house because Jay’s dad had gotten the truck stuck at the pond. She then told Jay that his dad then got the tractor stuck trying to get the truck out of the mud. With this, Jay hung up the phone and we got up. While leaving, we ran into the greeter and he asked, “Leaving so soon, you just got here?” To this we responded, “Jay’s dad got the truck and tractor stuck in the pond and we need to help him get them out.” In the car, we decided that we have definitely become true Quakertonians.

Jay and his dad worked for about 1 ½ hours in the pouring rain and had only moved the truck about 15 feet. Mike Burns then showed up. He helped for about 10 minutes until he decided that he would go to his parents house (about a mile away) and get his dad’s backhoe. Mike came with the backhoe and since the ground was so wet and loose, when he tried to get around the truck, he got the backhoe stuck. Mike worked for about 15 minutes to try to get the backhoe unstuck when he finally gave up and called his dad. Mr. Burn then came down from his house to try and get out the backhoe, tractor and truck that were now stuck.
Mr. Burns has 35 years experience working on a backhoe and he got it unstuck in minutes. It looked like they would finally be able to get everything unstuck. That was until he was working his way around the truck and a hydraulic hose snapped on the backhoe. That was the end of day 1 as a new hose needed to be made and installed before the backhoe could go anywhere.

On Monday, a new hose was installed and within 1 hour, everything finally got unstuck from the mud. Here are a few photos of the carnage.

The truck needs a good car washing, inside and out.