You laugh but a piece of garden hose is exactly how I limped a 78 John Deere 4440 home 8 miles after it blew a pressure line between the rear hydraulic pump and the trans. For those that don’t know, that tractor has a single circuit hydraulic system. Meaning the brakes, clutch, trans cooling, power steering and all the accessory hydraulics all flow via a single line. A piece of garden hose got it home, leaking of course but it made it the 8 miles home. Thankfully too because when it split, I was on a rural highway with no place to pull off as there are huge ditches on each side. And towing a tractor is expensive, upwards of 5 grand
