Thank goodness for a Defender. We needed to take the pigs to Leintwardine and decided to trailer train them in the field. As with all good plans we had to modify them somewhat.
Mike used the tractor because we knew the fields were still quite wet. However, to get to the pig field requires us to go down a muddy slope and up a fairly stiff grassy one. Needless to say the tractor/trailer got stuck and no manoeuvring could free it. So, out came Toad the Defender. We got into our field via our neighbours (thanks Bob) and then pulled the tractor with one of our old sailing ropes. It was touch and go, but with a bit of attitude we managed to pull the whole rig free. The photos show the rope attached when it then got stuck coming back into the small paddock. Again the Defender managed to get it out although because of the angle of the rope we nearly took the gate post off.
So Plan B for trailer training the piggies; we brought them up to the concrete area with the feed bucket and then fed them on the trailer ramp. Fortunately they loved it so we didn’t have to worry about training them everyday. When D-day came they went straight into the trailer with no bother at all.