> > > > > > This is the same stuff usually found on the ground behind the male > > > of the bovine specie. > > > > Stinks just as bad, no matter what the gender of the dumb brute > > described. Likewise for the end-product of the equine family. They all > > stink. > > > > Bill > > Maybe Bill, but you've obviously never smelt a 40 acre feedlot with 200 > head of beef on it on a -20F morning in February '44. You can't even > see thru it. With 2 perches that totalled 4300 lbs in the other side of > the barn, there was no comparison, the equines were tolerable. Raised in > Iowa farming country, I'm quite familiar with both. And I've forked > plenty of the output of both from the barn to the spreader. Those 2 > perches could do more in a days time in terms of tons moved than the > best of the case tractors we also had. I was plowing the west 80, with a > case LA w/4 16" bottoms on the plow, a field which had a windmill fed > watering tank in the middle of it and got too close to the tank and > buried it all in the mud. Daddy swore, whistled up that pair of perches, > made a new 2x12 oak double-tree, and hooked them to that tractor with > about 80 ft of 1/2" log chain so they'd be on solid ground. Daddy knew > horses,and never abused them so they'd do whatever he asked. I pulled > the hitch pin to leave the plow, Daddy went tsk tsk, the middle of that > chain came up in the air, and that 8,000 lb tractor was back on dryer > land shortly, gave then some sugar cubes, time to blow, and went back > after the plow. Those perches dug two ditches deep enough to drag their > bellies, but they got the job done. Yet they were gentle enough a 10 yo > boy could ride either bare backed. We had saddles and a riding horse > too, but no saddles that could be thrown onto those 2. Gentle Giants. I > remember them well 75 years later. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett My daughter used to work on a pig farm in Iowa, and I remember that I could not get within a mile of the place without getting sick. And she brought the smell home, and couldn't get rid of it even with showers, baths, soaps, perfumes, etc. Now that's what I call stink. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
