Posted by rrlund on August 07, 2012 at 16:49:08 from (207.241.137.116):
I was cutting hay yesterday on a place I've been renting since the mid 70s. There's a big dead head rock about 100 yards or so from the house,no big deal,been there since the last ice age,lays flat and flush. I guess somebody else discovered it and decided to "help me out". There was a ditch dug around it,I saw it,was riding the clutch easing up to it and then I caught something out of the corner of my eye. Looked like a handle. I saw it just as it went in the haybine. I grabbed the lever to shut it off but there was too much momentum. I ran one of those 4 tine garden spade/fork things with a D handle right through the rollers. That wasn't even the kicker. I got off to pick up the pieces and there layed a piece of inch shaft about two feet long,sharpened right down to a fine point,laying right next to the rock. Had been there for a while from the look of it. Either one of those could have ruined a tractor tire in the blink of an eye.
All this after a morning that had me fixing fences and gates for better than an hour and resulted in 5 head of fat cattle out with the cows on pasture. Got 4 back this morning,one's still out there. AND a misunderstanding with the slaughter house that resulted in them sending out a truck and trailer to pick up a steer that I had already delivered to them yesterday morning.
Ruining a loaded 18.4 34 on top of that might have been the thing that ended my farming career for good.
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