Well an updated update!!LOL. Some late information. The BTO's son and the kid I was helping where the bosses today. The BTO was in at Dubuque at the gambling boat. NO Joke here. They have a real cheap buffet Sunday meal. So lots of people go to just eat and never place a bet. The boys where lucky and did not know it. The old bridge has/had two main beams. The combine tires hit right over the beam. So the bridge held driving the combine across. The trouble started with the heavy grain cart. The cart straddled the bridge beams. So the old wooden bridge planks had to carry the load. They did not do the job. The cart's tires just broke through the bridge floor. The main beams held. If they had stopped right there they more than likely would have been able to save themselves a bunch of trouble. They could have gotten a grain vac and unloaded the grain cart. Then jacked it up and put planks under it and drove it on off. Then they would have only had the floor to repair.
The two kids decided to just pull the cart on across the bridge. Thinking the tires would hit the bank and jump up off the bridge. (My youngest son went down to see his old buddy) When they tried to pull the cart the two tractors would not budge it. So they decided to jerk the one tractor with a used truck tire and several chains. You loop the chains through a side of the tire and use it like a stretch arm strong. (That toy will date me by age. LOL) Well when they jerked the cart tractor it tore the draw bar out of the tractor. They also pulled the bridge beams off of the abutment on the far end. That is what dropped the cart into the creek. My son said the draw bar support was broken off the cart tractor. He said it looks like the transmission case was broken.
The kids had went and got the BTO grain vac and where emptying the cart and sucking the corn out of the creek bed. My son said the cart did not look hurt too bad. He said the axle hit the bridge and kept the bottom protected. He said the back panel was damaged but it looked like it bolted in so it could be replaced.
The county engineer was already out and took pictures. He was gone by the time my son got there. The BTO was there and he says he is going to get one of those old railroad cars they advertise for use as a culvert. He thinks he can drop it in next to the bridge and back fill it with gravel. He thinks he can get this done in a few days. So he can get his equipment out.
The land owner showed up. My son said he was hopping mad. He really chewed out the renter. Told him he was fixing the bridge and had better have weight tickets for all of the corn to him by noon tomorrow. The land owner said he will not let a culvert be installed. So the show down is going to start. He also had the sheriff out and had the BTO walked off his farm. Told him to stay off or he was filing trespassing charges. So it looks like the boys are going to be in the hot seat.
It was dark by the time my son went down so no pictures. I will try to get some before they get the cart out. It may be there a while. The two local wrecker services, with big enough wreckers to do the job, will not touch it. They have been burnt by the BTO before.
This BTO is farming about 4500 acres. He has been as high as 8000 in the past. He is a real slim ball. He has filed chapter 13 twice that I know of. Once in the 1980s and then again in about 2000. He burnt many local people both times. I often wonder how he can still borrow money. He seems to buy what ever he wants. It seems he can always find some absentee land lord to rent to him. He always promises big money rents. He just never tells the whole story. He only will pay for the tillable acres the Farm Service office shows. He will just keep on farming around anything that falls in the field and just lowers the rent. Says there are fewer tillable acres. He goes for five year deals. He fertilizes the first two. Then only nitrogen the third year. Then the last two years in soybeans. So when he is done the ground is way short on fertility.
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