[AT] DEAD or:: Long Story

[Gene Dotson]

    Okay Charlie, you asked for it.
    Have a little story to tell about yesrerday, then tell me if there is 
intelligent life left??

    Yesterday I took a couple Amish brothers to an Amish farm sale near 
Shreve, Ohio, 130 miles from home. These guys are deadly with a checkbook 
when away from home. My primary reason for going was to bring home some milk 
cows if they could buy them, so I towed my 15 foot livestock trailer, 
figuring the trailer for the cows and a few smaller items in the truck. That 
part worked fine as I hauled back 2 cows and a bull calf. The rear of the 
trailer was loaded with about 20 used doors they bought and a couple items 
of furniture. The truck held the very large lots of v'belts and flat belts 
they bought and the milk can rack, strainer and heavy duty step ladder fit 
nicely in the back of the truck. Doing fine so far.
    There was lots of nice horse drawn implements here, so the buying frenzy 
continued. 2 usable IH 2 row corn planters, 1 Pioneer sulky plow, 1 
forecart, 1 3 cylinder Duetz diesel engine mounted on a wheeled cart and a 
couple other items. Okay a nice trailer load, so I called my friend,Tony, to 
see if he was interested in coming and hauling this  load. He agreed to haul 
the load and hooked to his trailer and made the trip to the sale site. 
Meanwhile another amishman from a neighboring community had bought a New 
Idea hay loader and had no way to get it home. Well, Henry, figuring he had 
another trailer coming and barely enough room to load it, volunteered the 
other driver to haul it and drop it off for him. Tony arrived about 8:00pm, 
well after dark and the loading proceeded. The items the brothers bought 
loaded just fine. The hay loader was loaded on the back of the trailer and 
laid down on the other items. The top of the loader faced forward and 
created a very large drag surface. All items were chained and strapped down.
    The group started home and were heading west on U.S. Rt.30 when the 
strap on the loader was cut by a sharp edge that it crossed. So traveling at 
speed on a busy highway with the loader catching all the wind and the strap 
broke allowing this large flat wing to fly off the trailer, right into the 
left hand lane of the highway. Fortunately, no one was close behind and they 
got stopped and rolled the loader off into the center median. With no way to 
load it back on the trailer it was left and a towing company contacted to 
remove if from the highway.
    So, today we hooked my other trailer to my truck and went and retrieved 
the loader. What was a very nice hay loader will now require some 
straightening and a couple hay slats and another pair of rear castering 
wheels. We delivered it to the new owner this evening with negotiations 
still ongoing as to who pays the damages. Fortunately, I am off the hook on 
this one

                            Gene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CEE VILL" <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] DEAD or just no one out there.


> Speak for yourself, Gene.  (Grin)
>
>
>>From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
>>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: [AT] DEAD or just no one out there.
>>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:25:40 -0400
>>
>>     John Walt has resigned to spend his time on other discussion boards,
>>so
>>guess there is no intelligent life left here.