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Post by garyfunk on Feb 3, 2021 11:51:52 GMT -6
Albertabuck mentioned in another thread the idea of having a discussion thread that would help the members get to know a bit more about each other. Anyways, nothing interesting happening here ATM, but I'll be sure to post if something does, ha.
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Post by meskie on Feb 3, 2021 12:30:07 GMT -6
We got cows and it’s calving season I always hope for nothing interesting this time of year.
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Post by Beerwiser on Feb 3, 2021 14:20:31 GMT -6
All I have to say in regards to this thread is if anything interesting happens to me it is never good lol. So I am happy to say nothing interesting happened for now.
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Post by Oatking on Feb 3, 2021 15:29:55 GMT -6
The worst break down or day i ever had was when the Hoist brackets on one side of my tandem broke, with a full load of wheat lifted up. I was lucky i heard a load bang and ran as fast as i ever could. I was standing by the cab driver side lifting the box up. I felt the cab twisting when i fled. The result was not good, Auger was totaled and tractor fender bent up, and wheat all over the place. Scared the living delights out of me. It was a bad time to loose a tandem truck in the middle of harvest.
My farm being located on a busy highway , I remember a young woman stopped by and was terrified of the scene. She walked over to the crash site on her tippy toes when i spotted her and told her everything is under control!lol To this day i always think of that day when i lift up a truck box. Thank goodness no body got hurt.
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Post by torriem on Feb 3, 2021 22:17:38 GMT -6
Supposedly there's a chinese curse about living in interesting times. Can't say anything interesting happened to me (which could be good I suppose), but we did finish the last of four wire pulls in high conduits in the new work shop, and got all the lights hung. I'm very much afraid of heights and it's not super fun to work 24 feet up from a cement floor, even though the scissor lift is quite secure. And the articulated boom lift we rented to help out is an amazing, if terrifying, machine. So smooth and nimble.
I wish I could say we're done with the high-up stuff, but there's still the storage side of the shop to work on next week.
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Post by SWMan on Feb 3, 2021 22:21:22 GMT -6
Well today I got pulled over doing 130 and got off with a warning, so was looking good until I crawled under a combine and opened a panel up and got covered with dust! Ear was right full, went down my sweater, etc. I did pick up 60# of beef brisket today too, looking forward to some BBQ's. Oh and I got an interesting alert just now, often my phone roams to American cell towers and if anyone can make sense of this good for you. Maybe Captain can figure out his countries alert system...
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Post by cptusa on Feb 4, 2021 0:36:25 GMT -6
Just a hunch... missing elderly man named Theodore Heath or vise versa wearing a Vietnam hat and dog facemask.
Nothing interesting today but a couple of events worth noting from years ago:
1. Working in shop after lunch one summer day with over head door open when this flashy red sporty car pulls up and out popped a smoking blond it high heels and a tight ass short little red dress. She wanted directions to Waterloo, Des Moines or Cedar Rapids. Waterloo is 40 miles NE of me, Des Moines is 70 miles SW of me and Cedar Rapids is 50 miles nearly straight east of me. I was giving her directions and she wasn't grasping it so I took her into shop to show her a map. She seemed to like getting closer at that point so my objective switched to getting her of the yard ASAP before the wife came out.
Another odd one years later and unrelated...
2. Hog truck shows up several hours early for a load, not unusual, they sleep out of the way. 15 minutes later a car shows up and parks by the truck and a gal jumps in the truck with him. OK, married guy having wife time, whatever. Another truck shows up at load time and is actually first on schedule. Told that guy good thing he showed up because I didn't want to interrupt wife time. His response "Yeah, well that's not his wife". Yoou got it, I had a lot lizard working the farm.
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Post by Beerwiser on Feb 4, 2021 0:47:17 GMT -6
I'm calling Bs on number 1, I seen that in playboy too
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Post by slipclutch on Feb 4, 2021 6:42:36 GMT -6
😂 me too I call bullshit! On number one.
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Post by generalchaos on Feb 4, 2021 8:20:36 GMT -6
In 99 I started working as manager of a hog feeder barn for a friend. I had never worked with pigs and told myself I never would. Never say never. We opened in January and It was a windy spring day in April. We had just loaded about 200 pigs and were sitting in The coffee room when we heard a thud. My boss and I joked that the truck had crashed. A minute later our plumber arrived to finish a job he and started previously. He came in shouting “Did you see the semi in the ditch on its side!?” We got dressed and drove about a mile down the road and sure enough semi in ditch, trailer on its side and no truck driver. We found him later and the neighbor’s place. In shock. He was taking the load to Brandon Maple leaf, had to check the map, looking down. His right front tire hit the shoulder and looking up he freaked out and cranked the wheel hard left. Too hard because the momentum of the trailer over rode the front wheels and it plowed into the ditch. The truck driver might have been 19 years old. We spent the next few hours loading dead picks into one truck and live ones in another. RCMP showed up to get a statement but it never made the local news. The father of one of the owners taught me how to shoot a pig. Make a line from right ear to left eye and from left ear to right eye. Where they intersect is where you aim. I used that method for the 12 years I worked in the barn. Worked great.
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Post by meskie on Feb 4, 2021 9:56:17 GMT -6
That reminds me of when one of my friends was manager at a pig barn and they had a truck tip over. They saved most of them but had to put 4 or 5 down. The RCMP in scene looked at him and asked if he had a gun in his truck as it would be too much paper work if he discharged his gun.
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Post by cptusa on Feb 4, 2021 10:14:02 GMT -6
I'm calling Bs on number 1, I seen that in playboy too Very not BS! And you saw what in playboy? They have articles or something?
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Post by cptusa on Feb 4, 2021 10:23:44 GMT -6
Load of fat cattle dropped of the shoulder of the road here once and laid over. FD there, farmers with gates and stock trailers. These fats were jacked up big time and ready to kill. Another guy and I were hiding between the spread axles on the pot with a gate to swing behind them into make shift corral. Chaos at best.
Insurance guy showed up and wanted us to try and get downers out of pot for salvage. Someone said not happening someone will get hurt. Insurance guy gets pissy and vocal, sheriff walks over and hears whats going on. Says not happening, walk into truck and pulled his .45 and shot 3. Problem solved.
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Post by MBRfarms on Feb 4, 2021 17:26:00 GMT -6
Pulled into Morris while hauling grain last winter. Coming in past the school around 3:30-3:45 and there is 2 teachers herding a mob of kids back to the school from the park/fair grounds across the street. To my surprise the teachers just walk onto the road and started waving their kids across forcing me to stop somewhat quickly. No big deal I can wait 2 or 3 minutes. As the mob of middle school kids crosses the street they head down the sidewalk past me to get back to the school. A handful of the young boys walking past start motioning at me to blow my horn, happy to see young boys trying to have some good clean fun I give them 2 full long blasts. They yelled and cheered and ran off to school. Well the 2 teachers standing in the road getting their students across had their backs turned and didn't see the exchange between me and the young boys. They only heard the big truck that they made stop lay on the horn quite obnoxiously. And that was the day I got to see 2 middle school teachers come unhinged and stand in the middle of the street screaming at me at the top of their lungs in front of all their students.
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Post by meskie on Feb 4, 2021 18:05:29 GMT -6
I would have likely laid on the horn and given a wave as I was leaving with a smile on my face.
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