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JR.Frye · Feb 1, 2010

This funny stuff: Each to there own.
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Walterdavies · Feb 1, 2010

I guess "you do what you gotta do"
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JR.Frye · Feb 1, 2010

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hoosier boy · Feb 1, 2010

Duh - why did I ever buy a trailer. Think what these guys could do with a minivan.

Wesley Stephens · Feb 1, 2010

you gotta do what you gotta do

Anonymous-0 · Feb 1, 2010

if thers a will theres a way!!!!

spacechem · Feb 1, 2010

The flowers are a nice touch...

keh · Feb 1, 2010

True story. When I was samll, I went with Daddy to pick up a very young dairy calf. Daddy put burlap bags in the trunk of the 1940 Ford and hauled it safely home, a trip of maybe 25 miles. The calf made a little mess, nothing the bags couldn't handle.

KEH

Wesley Stephens · Feb 1, 2010

The man I bought my mule from said he was brought home as a baby in the back seat of a car.

tjiniowa · Feb 1, 2010

I hauled feeder pigs home one time in the trunk of my car once. Hauled quite a few 3 or 4 at a time under a stock tank in the back of pickup, didn't have a trailer or rack yet.

BillinCentralMO · Feb 1, 2010

Dad had an old VW bus. We hauled alot of pigs in that. Had a board we stuck between the two front seats to keep them in the back.

Ric Ks. · Feb 1, 2010

Big hog farmer had a new caddy and claimed it as a farm vehicle on his taxes, they called him on it and said no deal. He took them out to the car and opened the trunk. It was lined with straw and coated with pig poop. Smelled the part too. He got his deduction.

fixerupper · Feb 1, 2010

Another true story. Back in the sixties a local livestock scalper bought a new Mercury on a saturday morning, drove to the sale barn, bought a couple of calves, threw them in the back seat of the new car and took them home. Jim

john in la · Feb 1, 2010

ChrisB · Feb 1, 2010

Having spent to much time farming in Europe, you would be surprised to know, that there are trunk liners for BMWs and Mercedes much in the same way we have bed liners for pickup truck beds.

Amazing to see chickens, pigs , manure etc... in the back of a $60k Mercedes.

olgentdc · Feb 1, 2010

Dad KNEW how to get the calves to do their dirties before he put them in the backseat of our 56 FORD when brothers and I was A Kid,, i Think he Scared the s--t out of them ,,, but to my knowledge, they never messed on us coming back home from Bensons' sale barn ,, Evry time we would take the car instead of the pickup , it seems He always got a REAL GOOD Calf deal,.. next morning we drove the 56 Ford car to church ,, few years Later When dad bought the big Red &white 58 DESOTO , mom Put her foot down and declared that DESOTO was staying away from livestock hauling or else., What always amazed Me , And I have Seen this many times as a kid following with Dad,... was how the Old timers would Load one LARGWE Bull in the back of the 1950s and 40s pickups , The animal was practically crated , and these 3 speed pickups swould go careening down the marsh thawed frozen County roads , swaying from side to side with the steering tires occassionally letting light under the tires ,,, and you never ever saw or heard of a fell arolling over a load...

ryanwheelock · Feb 2, 2010

2 years ago I was taking a steer to the butcher and only had a 2 place horse trailer. Thought no problem and loaded him up and off I went. Got a few miles down the road and felt something get lighter, turns out the steer turned himself around in trailer and jumped out of the back while I was going down the road. The horse trailer had a opening about 3/4's of the way up and was open for 2-3 feet to the roof. Neighbor saw the whole thing happen and said steer landed on his head/neck. I stopped and he was stunned for a while and walked him back home, lucky he was a pretty tame steer. Dont know how he didnt break his neck!!! last time I use a horse trailer. Also lucky I still was on the dirt road and not on the busy paved roads.
Ryan in Northern Mich.

Ron in Nebr · Feb 2, 2010

Back in the '60's before too many people had trailers around here, one neighbor had a horse that he had trained to jump in the back of a pickup, brace it's hooves against the side of the box, and ride there wherever the guy wanted to go.

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