Scrub Puller
Senior Member
Yair . . . I got stuck on my own walking a Nine out twenty miles out to the road to be picked up by the float . . . first machine and camp was gone and I was stuck there in my lonesome with a pocket instamatic and bugger all else.
With no rippers or counterweights those tractors were so unbalanced that she would not come up on top.
I walked about five miles to the homestead and found it deserted, as they had all gone to town. Scrounged around and found a hand operated "Trehwellah" tree puller in the shed. took two trips to carry it back to the tractor (in high-heel cowboy boots mind you).
Just that bit of assistance with the hand winch made all the difference. I backed her up as far as she would go, adjusted the throttle so she was just stalled out on the converter and then climbed out and rushed back took up the slack on the hand winch, little by little she came out.
No that's not me in the first picture, just a view of the machine (or her mate) up on hard ground. in the last two pictures you can plainly see the 5/8" rope from the hand winch.
I didn't know these pictures existed until recently, they are in pretty poor condition and the rest of the box was beyond restoration after the 1974 floods but they are better than not having them at all.
Cheers.
With no rippers or counterweights those tractors were so unbalanced that she would not come up on top.
I walked about five miles to the homestead and found it deserted, as they had all gone to town. Scrounged around and found a hand operated "Trehwellah" tree puller in the shed. took two trips to carry it back to the tractor (in high-heel cowboy boots mind you).
Just that bit of assistance with the hand winch made all the difference. I backed her up as far as she would go, adjusted the throttle so she was just stalled out on the converter and then climbed out and rushed back took up the slack on the hand winch, little by little she came out.
No that's not me in the first picture, just a view of the machine (or her mate) up on hard ground. in the last two pictures you can plainly see the 5/8" rope from the hand winch.
I didn't know these pictures existed until recently, they are in pretty poor condition and the rest of the box was beyond restoration after the 1974 floods but they are better than not having them at all.
Cheers.
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. I have used that same trick when my 16B got stuck . At the time I used a one ton wrecker with 1/2 " cable , Put the 16 in 2 reverse and gave it just a little throttle while pulling with the winch and she came out . 