Re: Errant Cars, Fences, and the Like

Posted by Hurst on October 26, 2006 at 16:33:09 from (66.129.5.5):

In Reply to: Errant Cars, Fences, and the Like posted by Aaron Ford on October 26, 2006 at 14:57:44:

On our farm, we live out on an unlined country road that runs straight through our farm at 3 turns. My Grandfather got tired of having people run through fences and leave, letting horses get loose, less than a mile from a rail road track and about 3 miles from an interstate. These are thoroughbred horses, some that today could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the amount of money you can't afford to risk with if you are making at the least a 5-10% commission on a sale if you don't own the horse. Therefore, when the rail road came through and redid some of the rails, they gave us a few of the worn out rail sections and cut them into about 8-10 ft pieces according to the guy I work with who helped them do this and set them in the ground in a heck of a lot of concrete with only about 4 ft showing. Another thing is that the speed limit for 2 or the 3 corners is now 25, the other is not in a speed zone, so 55 legally. We still have people that run though fences, actually I have never seen anyone hit one of the rails, they are only there for direct hits to the fence from the corner, and most make is a little ways through the corner. Honestly, I would rather have my car in one of those rails than my head cut off by a fence plank coming through my windshield. Dad had a good friend that died when he went through a plank fence. I would not call these booby traps, but actually probably protection for both the driver and the owner. Also, a lot of the people that run through our fences run off, leaving a mess and no one aware of a huge hole in a fence. Always though, if the person is still there, our main concern is if they are alright. I agree, a fence can be fixed but a life cannot. At the same time, if what I am describing is what you call a booby trap, I would have to disagree, atleast in our case. They are there to do a lot more good than bad. A totaled car wrapped around one of these things is not likely to kill the driver. A car going 35 into the fence, which would be pretty darn fast, and hit one of these rails, would be totaled probably, but the driver would most likely come out without any serious injury, while at 35 through a plank fence could really mess a person up if something came through the windshield.
ATV's I hate them. I have ridden on one before on our farm, and they can be fun, but gosh they are so dangerous. I am still really young to most of you and would like to live quite a few years if at all possible, and I sure am not going to decrease my chance of living a long life by riding on one of those things.
Just my view on these things

Hurst

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