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Tim(nj)

06-01-2003 16:15:45




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It's been raining here for a week. Still have some corn to plant, haven't planted any beans yet, and I have lots of hay that is ready to cut. Since I couldn't do anything else, I went to the Morton building today and greased the Hesston 4550 baler and the JD 1209 mo/co in prep for the day when the sun will return. Good thing I looked in the baler. A momma cat had her 5 little fluffballs in the pickup throat. I moved her and her little ones into an empty twine box. I would've felt pretty bad if I had taken the baler out and started it up without knowing my rodent controlllers were still in it.

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John

06-07-2003 21:07:54




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
Years ago while trying to start an old Dearborn baler, I gave the flywheel a spin. (a lot less painful than using the crank that always busted your knuckles!) Usually started on the first spin, but that day it just sputtered. I looked up and saw the neighbor's 4 yr. old daughter and her teddybear crawling out of the infeed! Seems she had thought it a good place for a nap. Needless to say, I look at everything before starting now.

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Taylor Lambert

06-03-2003 17:40:56




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
I had put neew blades in my neighbors commercial tree chipper and had run it up to speed hen retightened the belts the next time we rani it up an old tom cat that had been hangin around was running from the fiests, weel for some reason it jut hopped in to the feed hopper took a split second to go out the other enend into the truck. We mixed lime dust and square bales togeter to coat the insides. FOund out dad had seen the cat hiding from the dogs in chipper earlier that week while waiting for new blades. I worked with a fell whose dad is a corner one night he got a call and i drove hime to a feild the neighbors reorted a mans tractor on fire in the bottom running but stopped attached to a baler. Later on that evening my friends dad told me the man had walked back there with the pto on and tried to clear a blockage and the baler grabbged hime and some thing got hot. Theres some terrible things that can happen out there

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combine boy

06-03-2003 12:52:17




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
A good friend of mine ran a skunk into a little round baler. the skunk got all rapped up around the press rolls, then had to cut it out with his pocket knief, lets just say his wife didnt let him in the house that night.LOL

Tristan Swartz



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larry

06-02-2003 15:34:34




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
fired up the baler one day ended up with short tail cat worked for a guy who put a cat throu haybine got nervous ran in circles tried to nurse kittens but the worst i heard was a about a crew at a quarry blew open a nest of snakes had the bright idea to dump in crusher blew all the belts off snakes crawling around and had to clean and remove snake parts he said at the the time it was a good idea

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Don-WI

06-01-2003 20:40:08




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
One time my dad hit a fawn hiding in the feild with the hay bine, said that it was just a mess trying to pull out mangled deer peices. another time my mom was in labor with my older brother, my dad started the monte carlo and there was fur every where - fluffy was sleeping on top of the warm engine on a cold December day. 2 years ago I be-headed a skunk, and it did spray, and did it stink. had to burn that bale of hay. Last year in the same field I hit a red-winged black bird and a momma Mallard with the haybine. Also had 2 cats go through the pulley and belt on the milker pump in the same day. Don't understand how, but the first got tail caught, belt came off and put it back on, turned machine on 2nd time and another cat and this time broke the belt. Needless to say our cats aren't very smart, and we put a sheild on the next week. Our cats don't hunt worth crap, they just wait til we feed them whatever's been sitting in the fridge for over a month.
Donovan from Wisconsin

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Kelly C

06-01-2003 21:53:29




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 Re: Re: check inside your machines before you star in reply to Don-WI, 06-01-2003 20:40:08  
I bet cats get run all over the state. I saw one of our grey barn cats come flying out from under my truck. I was about 15 mi from home and going about 60 mph. I just happened to glance into my rear view mirror and saw a grey streak come out from underneath the truck.
Looked a little funny. All fours out streached spinning around on the pavement. I saw him scoot into the brush.
I bet he had one heck of a hot foot.
Only the smart ones live for very long.

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Don-WI

06-02-2003 19:38:36




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 Re: Re: Re: check inside your machines before you in reply to Kelly C, 06-01-2003 21:53:29  
LOL!! One time we bought hay from a neighbor about 7-8 miles away, they loaded the kick wagon one day, we picked it up the next morning. While I was unloading, I counted atleast 5 cats on 1 load alone of their's running away. Ended up freshening up the gene pool a little that day.
Donovan



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Bill

06-01-2003 20:37:52




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
I got you all beat,,its been years ago but in St Paul Ne they found a dead guy on top of the straw walkers in a combine, I cant remember the whole story,he was running from cops,and was wounded, they figured he crawled in there to hide,,,,, Bill



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Steve450

06-01-2003 20:14:54




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
I hit a turkey mowing hay this evening. It flew away, but not after leaving some feathers on our old #9 mower:)



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Old Peddler

06-01-2003 19:38:29




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
I cranked up my truck with a snake in the fan belt one time. The fan belt flew off and the snake came apart. That was no fun to clean out either.



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Hugh MacKay

06-01-2003 16:28:13




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 Re: check inside your machines before you start in reply to Tim(nj), 06-01-2003 16:15:45  
Tim: Can't farm without your rodent controlers. On the other side I remember some guys starting a mill up with a skunk in the mechanism. Within the hour they had to shut down and go home. Some of them actually lost their breakfast.



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Dan

06-01-2003 16:45:12




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 Re: Re: check inside your machines before you star in reply to Hugh MacKay, 06-01-2003 16:28:13  
I have bailed skunks and cats under windrows also a number of snakes. If you are going fast enough the skunk doesn't ahve time to spray you. Think the only problem in mill would have been that it wouldn't have been a lot of fun trying to get the live skunk out either.



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Hugh MacKay

06-01-2003 18:06:46




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 Re: Re: Re: check inside your machines before you in reply to Dan, 06-01-2003 16:45:12  
Dan: I heard a story of a Clergyman trying to shoot a skunk with a 22 in his basement. He missed. I would suspect he probably got in a bit of practice for Sunday morning services.



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