As I tell the local DOT and local political officals around here. You would be scared if you realized how much cyanide was required to mine gold for electronics.
MC,
Having spent summers on my uncle’s farm and learning things my generation, other than “city kids”, were expected to learn, (how many here have milked a cow?) I became quick on the uptake.
Fresh cow pies were not to be stepped on unless you liked smelly shoes, and Manure spreaders of the day were verboten to be near while they were doing their task.
The fertilizer they provided, once tilled into the soil, was beneficial to the crops and almost guaranteed a good harvest the folowing year.
Times have changed and now cow manure is no longer acceptable but a lot of Bullschidt is.
Stuff happens.
In some ways, while I appreciate the conveniencies of today there is still good to be spoken of yesteryear. bIt was a much easier time back then.
Another thing, or two, to learn: "NEVER, EVER walk between Two loaded, parked Bull Wagons in a Truck Stop parking lot… [banghead]
NOTE: Lambs and Pigs on trailers, are even more deadly, with their “outboard, direct fire”…[:-^]
To Balt’s comment…If on the road; Pass them rapidly![:'(]
As my hubby always says this goes back to his driving days. Best drivers to follow if your logs are in trouble are Bullhaulers why they know every goat path around the scalehouse ever thought of. They also knew the best places to eat shower get a truckwash and according to my late FIL where the best drivers out there. There is a saying about trying to pass a bullhauler good luck. Normally those guys have more speed than most.
From my college days - when hitchhiking - don’t accept a ride with a empty cattle truck - roughest riding vehicle I have EVER been on.
Well, Balt, I never had such an opportunity offered to me, either. Indeed, I did not see such traffic along my ways between home and college.
Among my interesting rides was one on the way to Asheville from Bristol. I do not remember just where I was picked up; I asked the kind man what he did, and he did not answer me. When we arrived at the state line, he backed up by another car that was there, told me to stay in the car, got out, and unloaded several heavy items from his trunk. After the transfer, the other driver took me on down to Asheville. I had the impression that if either trunk had been smashed, there would have been a quite evident odor from the cargo.
Fifty years ago I worked as a safety supervisor for an electric utility. A lineman, who was also a part time farmer, was retiring and asked if he could keep his hard hat. When asked why, he replied that the hard hat helped when smacked in the back of the head when pulling the manure spreader.
“Mom! 99 is blowing for 16th Street. Dad will be home soon.”
Meanwhile, it appears the Newswire covered the resolution of the original Knoxville ‘oopsie’ on the 23rd, but hasn’t chosen to post that story to the forum. Perhaps this thread is the appropriate place for the staff to do so now.
Ah, it’s a"poo-poo choo-choo!"
Sorry gang, couldn’t resist that one!
Bull haulers, around here, are the lowest caste of truckdriver and have the worst operator records to prove it. (You ought to see what Amtrak does to a cattle trailer after impact[+o(])…
Want a more pleasant experience? Work around the fields sprayed with the waste (liquid with solids in suspension) from a brewery…Smells like a bread bakery. A-B has quite an operation at Fort Collins (Nutriturf) straight east 5 miles from the brewery. (WCR 15, half mile north of WCR-88 (Larimer County 52)) Specially modified pivot irrigation system spraying water and waste wort. Homer Simpson AG heaven.
Julian Kansas has a similar operation where tank cars of the stuff are shipped from KC as cattle feed for feed lots around Ulysses-Johnson KS on what is now the Cimmarron Valley Railway…Nothing quite like walking around, ankle deep, in beer waste squeezins…[:^)]