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So it rained for over a week here. When it dried out, I had to work and then mow the lawn around the house. I do that with the John Deere x758. It is four wheel drive, all the time. It has a 24 HP diesel engine and a high capacity mowing deck. It does a great job on the lawn and there are no unknown hazards around the house lawn. It's about 2 acres. It would get bogged down a few times mowing the grass around the house as it was thick and tall from all the rain.
I mow the pasture with the White GT1855. It has new rear tires and always had good traction on the hills in the pasture. All it has to normally do is cross the small creek. Water had been coming down the trail by the dog park, into the creek for over a week. It was still running down the trail. As I crossed the creek, I sank into 3 to four inches of slick, silt like mud. I put down some boards. It ran on them, but the angle of the hills were too much in places. I put on the tire chains I got with it. Still no go. I slid back into a big hole created by the workmen adding to the dog park last month. I was stuck.


I had to get the ATV, find as dry a place as possible and use it's winch to pull out the machine. The winch was almost out of cable, but the ATV was on solid ground. The mower came out and I'm leaving it in the pasture until that section dries out.
I was really stuck.

I feel for yah brother. Tina mows with a Spartan Zero Turn on the acre around the house, but uses the Kubota Tractor to mow the other 20 acres with the bush hog. Every now and then she forgets and tries to take the spartan into the ditch line too soon after a heavy rain and I'll have to take the UTV and pull her out. Sounds like a Navy Chief when she shows up looking for that "Tow."

She calls the Mud here "Oklahoma Puddin." Even though the tractor has AG tires and 4wd, a couple times she has had to pull with the bucket to free the tractor from the mud. So far I haven't had to wade in with the cable of the UTV winch and pull the TRACTOR out. So far...

"When you pray for rain, you got to deal with the mud to."

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You need more Cows Dave

I feel for ya Dave. I know what you're going through. I got stuck twice last week. Used the gator to pull the mower out. I've graveled several seeps and once the turf grows up through it, the ground is reduced to being spongy enough to just support the mower passing over. Some spots take more gravel and others it's pointless. Too much flow in the seep. Many of the seeps I long ago French drained. Other spots I haven't (yet).