Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010
How much wood can a farmer chuck if the farmer doesn’t get stuck? Well, we’ll never know. Today after wrapping up W2’s I set out with Dewey around 11:30 to cut wood. We quickly got about 1/2 truck load and with about an hour left before Dewey needed to go to class, I thought we might as well tackle a large tree that would certainly fill the truck. Cutting it down was no problem – it fell just where I wanted and – hung up at about a 45º angle. No problem – I’ll just hook a chain to it and drag it down with my 4WD Ram 2500, which I did. Except that when it was all over, the truck was axle-deep in Carolina gray clay. I called Christopher to bring me the come-along and when he arrived we set to work dragging the truck out of the mire. We were making decent progress (with this old man just about at my limit) when I broke the come-along. Incredible! but there it was. I had to either find a tougher come-along or drive our tractor all the way down to the woodlot. Dewey had left for class in Christopher’s truck, so Chris (the pretty one) had to come get us, which she did. Christopher and I set out to locate an industrial-strength come-along, which we found at CarQuest, a 2-ton model this time. If I break this I’m going on TV. Incidentally, while we were at it, we stopped at the DMV and Christopher’s driving status was promoted so he can now drive after 9:00pm. After picking up Dewey, we got back to the woodlot about 5:00 and sure enough, with the new come-along pretty much yanked the truck out of its sink-hole and headed home. Needless to say, I am sore and tired, but relieved that the truck is no longer stuck.