I'm really like you Eric, I didn't care what color it was just glad he was able to help me. When the tractor first sunk down I stopped instead of digging in deeper. It was only about 5 or 6 inches down and you can see how deep it had got by the time the rescue squad made it. It had sunk so deep I had a hell of a time getting my fat butt back in the cab to drive it out. Thank goodness for 4wd though.
It went down that deep just sitting there. I hate to think of what would have happened if I had spun any. The only thing I did after it set down was put it in 4wd and tried to inch forward. When I did it slid toward the water and did the same trying to back out so I just stopped and put the call in for help. It was only down about 6 inches when I stopped and it only to my buddy about 30 minutes to get to me and you see how deep it was in that short ammount of time. I was really starting to get worried. That big ford was a very welcome site to see. It didn't hardly take anything to get me on hard ground and I probably could have done it with my little tractor but I was afraid to try it. I figured if I tried that and it didn't work that I would really be in trouble. Since my luck was already on the bad side of the fence I didn't want to push the issue. My dozer would have been real handy about then but it's down right now with a bad bearing in one of the front idlers. Like I said, my luck is on the wrong side of the fence right now. Looking back though it could have turned out much worse than it did.
. She was slideing for sure into that pond, good thing it did not take longer to get help, could have ended up over on it's side. And it's only a bad day if you break something 
