[AT] DEAD or:: Long Story

[CEE VILL]

Chuckle.  Interesting story, Gene.  My first thought is the three Amish 
fellas are intelligent life.  They know better than to drive.  I wonder what 
they will do with the diesel engine. It must be they use stationary power. 
Lucky for you there weren't half a dozen tractors there also.

Charlie


>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:: Long Story
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:37:00 -0400
>
>     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
>
>

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