[AT] been collecting a long time (story)

[Greg Hass]

This story takes place at a time when many farms still had both tractors 
and horses. In our area at least, if you got stuck with a steel wheeled 
tractor, the way to get it out was to get an old wooden fence post, put 
it ahead of the wheel and the steel lugs would dig into the post and the 
tractor would climb out. Well our neighbor, in his mid-80's now, said he 
was cultivating  beans with the type of horse drawn riding cultivator 
that we have been talking about. It was the last time over so he said he 
had the horses going pretty fast. Well it turns out someone had gotten 
stuck but failed to remove the post which was now slightly underground. 
Our neighbor said he met the post from the wrong end at the high speed. 
The cultivator teeth hooked the post and pole vaulted him and the 
cultivator 5 feet into the air and forward. He said he was somewhat 
dazed and by the time he got up and figured out what had happened, the 
horses and cultivator were back at the barn. As much  as I love old 
machinery and the old way of doing things, it does not include going 
back so far as to have to deal with horses.
       Greg Hass