Your reactions were probably right, but your hands were tied, and you probably couldn"t have done anything, by the time you would have caught up with them, if you could have found them.
Poorly illuminated hay rides are a nightmare waiting to happen. Years ago my wife was on duty as an emergency room nurse at the local hospital. A college fraternity and sorority at the college in the next county held a hayride. Two horse drawn wagon loads of young people. As I remember the story, there was a single lantern hanging off the back of the last wagon, and that got knocked off somewhere in the fracas. You can probably write the ending. A drunk in a Suburban took them from behind. Emergency rooms and ambulance services were maxed out with injuries - some very serious. They were hauling kids to hospitals sixty miles away - especially for the most serious injuries. Thinking that a couple off the horses had to be put down too.
We never do a hayride without remembering that. We have a grain-barge (box) wagon. (Less chance of kids falling off.) Clearance lights on all four corners. Flashing tail lights on the rear. White strobes on the front corners. Tractor headlights and flashing warning ligts, as well as a large amber strobe or rotating amber beacon mounted on a post high above the tractor. Did I mention reflectors along the sides and rear of the wagon? If any motorist can"t that thing coming or going, they"re blind! And I still hesitate to send my equipment out on a hayride.
We farmers haul a lot of goods on the public roads. Most of it in the daylight, when it can at least be seen. Sometimes at night, but most try to have at least an escort vehicle behind... or at least some lights. A hayride is a whole different thing, you"re hauling a far more valuable cargo. Are you willing to bet your farm and livelihood that nothing will go wrong?
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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