With a lot of luck, he grabbed ahold of the JD 4010, brought it back up and set it back on the island. My uncle works for the farmer and the farmer gave it to him. After about a year, we were able to go get the tractor off of the island. We loaded the truck and trailer onto the ferry boat, which is owned by the farmer, from a Kentucky boat ramp. We then took the ferry boat over to the island.
Diamond Island is a rather large island.
It is about 1 mile wide and 3 miles long. It just so happened that the ramp was located about 3 miles from where the tractor was located. It was a real journey just to get across the large island. When I first saw the tractor, I was sort of shocked at the amount of rusting that took place. I thought that metal did not rust that bad under water.