Posted by JDseller on September 23, 2012 at 13:38:46 from (208.126.196.144):
I posted a while back about being sick and tired of the younger guys taking advantage of any help offered. The one kid sold a set of gravity wagons I helped him get at a deal. Then he was supposed to help us during harvest with them. We would have harvested his crop. I posted how he was helping/working with a real slimmy local BTO.
So today I came home from church and saw a real mess. The farm the kid rents has a county grade "B"( low maintenance road) farm access road to the back half. There is no other way to get to the ground back there. About half way down this road there is a ten ton bridge. We always crossed it with just a half a wagon load of grain. Even then we went real slow.
Well the kid was trying to pull one over on the old man that owns the ground he rents. The owner hates the BTO with a passion. He has told anyone and everyone that the BTO will never set foot on his farm. I warned the kid when he told me what he had planned for this fall. The attraction of the big fancy, mortgaged, BTO equipment is just like crack for this kid. He is just slobbering at the bit to drive the big stuff.
The old man owner took this weekend to go to his daughters in Chicago for a mini vacation. The kid waits until the old guy is gone and tries to rush in and use the BTO equipment to harvest the corn. They got the crop on the house side all done yesterday. This morning they tried to do the back. They got the combine across the bridge okay. They where smart enough to not try taking the BTO's semis back the road. They where not smart enough to think about how much a full 1000 bushel grain cart weight on the one axle. Maybe 50-60K on the one axle. So you take ten ton bridge and put a cart with 25-30 ton on it. Do I need to tell you what happened. LAMO
The cart went clear through the bridge. About a ten foot drop. They tried to just pull it on across with two tractors. They pulled the tongue off the grain cart. The cart flipped up on it rear. So it is standing straight up in the air. LOL
So the bridge is ruined. The grain cart is stuck in the remains of the old bridge. There is a bunch of corn down in the creek. The BTO combine and second cart are stuck on the back side of the ruined bridge. There is ZERO way out other than the bridge. There are limestone bluffs all around the back of this farm so you can't just drive through to another field and get out. Both upstream and down stream the creek that the bridge crosses is all limestone shelfed too. So I don't think you can bulldoze a path across anywhere I know of.
Then the icing on the cake. The owner will be back anytime. That grain cart is sticking up in the air like that planter down at Kinze's factory. You can see it from the main road easily. When he gets home the fireworks are going to start.
So here is what he is going to find.
1) The crop harvested off his ground. This is a crop share agreement. So where is his share at right now??? He wanted to be there during harvest.
2) The BTO that he hates on his farm without his permission.
3) The only access he has to the back of his farm blocked.
4) The bridge on that access destroyed. The county sent him a letter several years ago that they would not have the money to fix any damage done to the bridge. If it was damaged he would have to have it repaired at his cost. The county was just going to close the road if that happened.
I really should not feel the way I do this afternoon but I am human. It is rarely that I would be able to have this big of a I-told-you-so. I really, really want to go down and take some pictures but I am sure that would be a big fight. I might have to shoot someone.
I do feel sorry for the old man that owns the place. I hope he does not have a health issue over this. I do know there will be law suits over this one. The BTO and the kid are toast.
The kid can forget about farming around here in the future. The BTO has done this type of thing before. It cost him big time with the county then. I wonder if they will enforce the ten ton posted load limit???? If they do I wonder if the BTO insurance will have to pay for the bridge damage??
So you guys can have a chuckle about this one with me.
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