Two truck wreck causes bales of hay to fly off overpass

What makeajump is likely referring to are busted up round bales haphazardly upturned at the roadside.
Farmers who bale the right of way usually don't pitch them vertically and then tear them apart, unless they smoke the same as Willie Nelson. ....

 

Cruise spearfish canyon and 14 south to Newcastle WY. That area has plenty of roadside hay and a baler in sight!

 

Used to run that road every night. It wasn't uncommon to see the local Amish folks making their way home after milking at one of the dairies. Buggy, bike, or shanks mare depending on the night. Passed more than a few farm tractors running down the highway at night as well.

If I recall that exit has a mcdonalds on the north side and directly on the south side is a dairy. Wonder how many times old Bessie has been threatened with a walk under the overpass when she ain't acting right?

 

all i know is, i planted my winter stuff for a springtime bloom. i coulda used sum of that hay to cover up from the frost!

 

It's heavy.

Timothy straw for feed is something like 45 pounds roughly and alfalfa is heavier by half maybe. I could and did load a barn of hay in my time in several hours about 12 high on the wagon back of tractor for the horses. Then reload into the breeding barn up top. Along with stacking some for the stallions at stud.

I consider my time on the farm with the horses a important time. It changed me into a man in many ways and discarded the weak and the problems with it.

When I read the headlines hay over the bridge I figure someone is going get really bad hurt or killed real easy from that height.

 

I haven't seen any buggies on that road yet. I'm usually going through there in the afternoon. I've seen lots of them on 10. I've stopped at a small place in Granton a few times and see Amish men filling gas cans wondering what they use it for.

 

Huh, that's a good question.

Well after some thought there are two types of Amish.

One the Old Amish forbids all technology. They do everything by hand. Bless them.

There is a New Amish ... grouping within the overall Amish way of life who might be using that gasoline to run hit and miss engines of 2 horse power or something 100 plus years old on the farm to drive a auger for feed or something.

Im just generalizing, I have to be very careful here because a part of family is amish and I don't know for sure yet which they fall into. Parts of Lancaster is pretty closed world to outsiders. And begs the question how in the world they made it to baltimore in the 1840's time period.

 

Where I live in TN we have the Mennonites that I believe to be on off shoot from the Amish, but they drive cars and use power tools to build barns for us heathens. They still take Sundays off and wear suspenders and their women folk wear gray dresses and bonnets, but are allowed to drive.

I do wonder about the gas though??

I also wonder how they will be able to maintain their lifestyle? How do they recruit? They would and should be concerned about inbreeding.

 

I don't have the answers regarding inbreeding. They do travel though in some cases. We had several come from Ohio some time ago east of here. We are also picking up small numbers of other nations as well which is somewhat unusal for this part of the south, famed for being a bible stronghold.