stuck in the mud
Today my dad, brother, and myself drove out to the ranch to finnish loading some logs into a stock trailor and bring them back to STL. when we got there, we were surprised to find how icy everything was, not it was remains of snow from earlier. the snow/ice/slush wasn't really in the way atall, we were just surprised to see it.
Me and Brian (my brother if you hadn't guessed) spent a few hours walking around, and driving to the diffrent ends of the property. we recently had someone come out there to survey the property lines. wow were the old lines off. me and brian were taking a look at how much damage had been done. we lost part of a feild. but so far up to the is point, thigs are running smoothly no really problems. we go with dad too look at an area that we are having cleared out to turn into a wildlife foodplot, and it's looking really nice. we have finally found a bulldozer operator that knows what he's doing.
that all taken care of, we go to work on what we drove out there for, the logs. there were only a few logs left to load up. and they were no problems loading. when me and dad 1st started loading logs a month or two ago, we had no idea what we were doing trying to get tehm on, and it was taking us upward towards adn hour per log. now, it only takes a few minutes.
everthing is running smoothly.
till we tell my brother to drive teh trailor over to teh last pile of logs that is.
there are only 3 logs left to load, adn they are sitting next to the road on our way out. but getting there, brian drives across a field to reach the road. he though that next to the old shed was too close a squeze so he wanted to go through a field and around the clump of trees. well, that feild doesn't drain water. And guess what? snow has been melting off this feild for a few days. if you see standing water on top of clay, word of advise, don't drive on it. And if you must drive over it, don't do so pulling a 16 foot trailor loaded down with heavy oak logs. driving through mud, pulling a 4000plus anchor. yep, he got stuck. the only way we could even get home was to just leave the trailor there and come back for it after the mud has dried up.
the short version now:
Me, my brother Brian and me dad drove out to the ranch today to get bring home a trailor of logs. While were were there, everything was running great as we were checking out where the property lines now lay, and a field that is being formed looks great. And there was no hastle loading logs into the trailor.
but when we are almost done, and we are driving over to pick up the last few logs, the trailor gets stuck in the mud and we are forced to leave it there. I guess I won't be unloading the logs at my demo area on Monday after all.