I was drinking my 7th beer and decided to go out in the pasture and sling some mud. I'm fortunate to own 10 acres, with 9 of it as a pasture that has 2 ponds and a creek running through the length of it. It's not much more that 100 ' wide, but it is 1/4 mile long. Anyway, I got stuck in a rut that was about a foot deep and the same across. The front wheels were in a muddy are as well. I was already in 4 wheel high, so i switched to 4 wheel low and locked both diffs. It just sat there and spun the tires. This is black gumbo mud were talking about here. Almost as bad as the gravel/clay that got me just before Thanksgiving. I walked back to the barn and fetched my shovel, put in in the ATV's trunk, and drove back to the Rubi. I dug around all of the wheels to try to make the slope less. What a horrible sucking sound it made when I pulled the shovel full of muck out of the ground. It took 3 attempts before I managed to drive out, but I finally made it out. What a relief. i took some pics with my smart phone, but I need to let my iPod charge before I can transfer the pics to my PC. I'll try to do that tomorrow if anyone is wanting to see them. I'm wondering now if these tires aren't that good in mud.

 

I guess you wont be trying the 3rd time's a charm bit.

 

I probably will, but not on purpose.

 

Can't wait to see the pics! Wish I had 10 acres to play in!

 

Stories that start with "I was drinking my 7th beer and decided to go out in the pasture and sling some mud." rarely end well.

 

Let's see the pictures!

Drunken fun on the property WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
(I can relate)

 

^^^I am with stupid!

 

Hey, I resemble that statement. I took pics with my new cell phone. It has a 1.3 mega-pixel camera, so the pics aren't as bad as you might expect. The trouble is, that when I synced the phone to my laptop; they weren't there. I thought about it for a minute or so and remembered that I had put in a 1 GB micro-SD card in the phone yesterday just before I took the pics. I took the card out of the phone and put it in the slot in my laptop. Voila! Pics are forthcoming as soon as I get them uploaded to Photo Bucket.

 

Here they are.

The aftertmath.

 

Great story How many beers down were you when you wrote this?