Posted by Mark - IN. on January 06, 2013 at 17:57:39 from (24.15.158.80):
In Reply to: Re: ID this hearse? posted by wisbaker on January 05, 2013 at 21:09:07:
That's pretty cool. The part about the fella being loaded into/onto a horse drawn hearse pulled by his team.
I have a customer that I do telephone repairs for that has several funeral homes spread all over, about seven or so. He has a couple of mint horse drawn hearses that he uses in parades. Quite a fella. He also has an unbelievable tractor collection, in that his funeral homes are in rural farm communities. I'm not sure under what conditions he aquires them, but can imagine that perhaps there might be some bartering going on. One of the neatest things is that during the Christmas Holidays, they take one of his many tractors, a Farmall H, and pull it to one of the funeral homes, park it out front, and decorate it a little. Thing is, they pull it from miles away behind a van or pickup in the wee hours of the morning, free wheeling in nuetral, and one of the fellas that does it told me that they hit speeds up to 40MPH. I laughed and pointed out that at 40MPH on a NF Farmall H, free wheeling, not a safe thing to do, like my telling them, most of whom are retired farmers, but on the brighter side, if they screw up real bad, if you know what I mean, they were already headed to the right place, a funeral home to begin with.
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