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Michael Soldan

06-04-2006 18:58:03




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Welp, I divided my pasture with an electric fence so I could manage it a bit better. I have a walkway about 6 feet wide across the top of the field to let the cows into the west half which I can close off keeping them on the other half. Well this morning in the fog and dew I walked down to check if there were any new calves. On the way back two cows were coming down the walkway from the barn. I stopped to pet one and scratch her head and the other tried to squeeze by,contacted the electric fence and all three of us got a shot,didn't knock anybody down but sure felt it through my hand, so no more visiting in the walkway!..then there's the day the cat locked me out of the truck..'er ah never mind...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Burnie

06-06-2006 02:51:25




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Michael Soldan, 06-04-2006 18:58:03  
I first met my wife at a party at her cousin's farm. We had a few drinks (as you would) then decided to take a short walk to admire the stars. Things were really going well (at least from my point of view)when I suddenly fell (or was pushed!!!!) into an electric fence. The more I tried to get out, the more I got tangled and the more she laughed. This sort of thing usually doesn't lead to love and marriage but in this case it did. We now have one child, half an acre and no electric fence.

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Jimmy Kingk

06-05-2006 10:34:27




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Michael Soldan, 06-04-2006 18:58:03  
There used to be a story around here about two old men. They were possom huntingon their neighbor's place not knowing he had put in one of the first Electric fences in the country. 6 volt Batt of course. They said Ed grabed the wire with a possom in one hand and a lanard in the other and as he stood there pulsing he said Hugh if I die tell them I died happy, but I think I am having a heart attack.

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Jimmy King

06-05-2006 10:35:51




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Jimmy Kingk, 06-05-2006 10:34:27  
The extra K is not supposed to be there.



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mtgummibear

06-05-2006 09:51:34




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Michael Soldan, 06-04-2006 18:58:03  
You know how kids are, you want to be a part of farming at a very young age. Well I must have been about 6-8 years old and I was with my dad as he was plowing a small patch of very wet bottom land.

It was wet but everything was going fine as I rode on his lap. So of course I begged him to let me make one round driving myself. I had watched him do everything in terms of taking the plow out of the ground and putting it back down. So he said yes.

I was just as proud as could be as I plowed by myself....until I got 2-3 hundred yards down the field and THIS time the tractor started spinning in the mud.

You guessed it...I hadn't really mastered the whole connection between the clutch and the drive wheels and of course there was a little bit of panic mixed in there. By the time my dad ran accross the field to me, that old WD Allis was buried up the axles in the mud.

Took me a while to get over that one, but I can laugh about it now.

Larry

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Brad Bachelor

06-05-2006 03:38:56




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Michael Soldan, 06-04-2006 18:58:03  
We had electric fence that our goats kept getting out of. After seeing them partying one day on our neighbors deck (They weren't home thank goodness), I went and bought 4 rolls of field fence and decided to put it up. It took us a day to get up the back section. Well we went to pick up the tools at the end of the day. and heard some noise from the other side of the fence. There was my herd. It seems they had escaped before the stretching and we hadn't noticed. We were the only ones fenced in.

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Jason, NW Ontario

06-05-2006 02:52:58




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Michael Soldan, 06-04-2006 18:58:03  
I think lots of people have a hotwire story.
My wife had set up a small enclosure in the yard for the horses to graze down the grass, and I was picking out the unmentionables from the chainlink runs of our dog kennel. She had run the wire close to the kennel fence, so when I opened the first glavanized gate, I realized my error. I was standing behind the gate instead of beside it, so it swung open, I started losing my balance and looked back at the hot wire and held on tighter to the gate. It kept swinging until the back of my thighs touched that wire. I yelled out and threw my legs forward making my back arch. This caused me to lose my balance even worse, so still clutching to the metal gate I swung back into the wire a second time. My yells were garbled with electrical current until I let go of the gate and fell to the ground with that stupid hot wire sizzling under the back of my knees. Don't be grabbing a grounded metal post while Mr. Hydro is nipping at your heels.

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Boley

06-04-2006 22:10:05




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Michael Soldan, 06-04-2006 18:58:03  
A friend of mine and his teenaged son and I were Quail hunting on his place one wet day.When we came to the electric fence separating a pasture from his cornfield,the son,longer legged than his dad and me stepped over the fence.He used the butt of his shotgun to hold the wire down for me to cross,just as his dad straddled it the wire slipped off.One can imagine the conversation that took place between father and son.It was a bad deal all around as shortly after that, a skunk sprayed my bird dog,ending her day,but not ours.We went back to the house to change dogs,James had a pup that was started but didn't work with my dog well.While there the son took the opportunity to use the bathroom,and managed to dip his overall strap into the commode.We went back to hunting,the son to catch up after changing clothes.The pup just played around,and the son showed up with a bent barrel and magazine tube on his 870,result of him falling on it crossing a 6 or 8' ditch getting back to us.Had the makings for a three stooges short.

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Glenn F.

06-04-2006 19:23:10




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 Re: Dumb Farm Stories in reply to Michael Soldan, 06-04-2006 18:58:03  
Mike: I still chuckle over your cat story. AND the story about the first drive with the new pickup where they stopped to switch drivers and locked themselves out in the rain with the truck running! It is so heathly to laugh at ourself.

Glenn



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