Getting it out...

...was relatively easy, when the proper excavator finally arrived.

(see previous blip for the beginning of the story)

The situation had seemed worse in the darkening evening than it really was. The tractor had not tilted more, when we tried to pull it, and the right rear wheel wasn't deeper or even as deep as it had been, but with the left wheel in the air, it probably felt worse.

We attached the belt to the excavator bucket without the chain, and when it was tightened, the wheel came down. When I switched the gear on, the tractor came up with a gentle pull. Well, it must have been a gentle, but powerful pull, but it felt easy.

The other tractor had to be pulled all the way to safer ground, as the trailer's wheel was stuck (probably old lorry axle with brake parts intact and frozen), so the tractor's wheel could have slipped because of the extra drag, and it could have broken the surface and get stuck again.