Yeah my buddy runs a small barn downstate and he was complaining about the same thing. Said he had to bump his farrier visits up to every 5 weeks during a super wet stretch last year because the growth was just out of control. He switched to a summer/winter schedule now, does 4 weeks in the mud and 6 when it's dry, seems to work pretty well for him.

Stopped ignoring that little fill line on my machine after months of tangled messes and it fixed everything. Switched to only winding bobbins about three quarters full and the tension problems just disappeared. Sometimes the simplest fix in the manual is the one you skip because you think you already know what you're doing.

Did you ever actually try it though, like stand there and just listen to a plane's engine hum?

Makes me wonder how many other simple fixes like that are hiding in plain sight around us.

Read a guy on Reddit once had to use chopsticks to save his leftover lo mein from a disposal.