Crazy things I hear

[37chief]

A lady I mow for wants me to put off my mowing for a week or so. She is having a party, and doesn't want rattle snakes to leave the field, as I am mowing to bite people at her party.
A mowing job today the neighbor lady comes over when I am loading my tractor, and asks if I am going to rake up the weeds. I tell her I don't rake up weeds. If I did that I would never finish my mowing.
The best one. A few years ago. A lady wanted me to hang cans in front of my tractor to scare off the rabbits, to keep from running them over. I did it to get the job. Stan

 

[SVcummins]

I read in the furrow magazine one time about a guy that had a pipe hanging off the front of the tractor with a chain to scare the birds and animals out of the hay before the mower went through

 

[Olyj1947]

That was a common practice here in Iowa when just about every farmer raised some alfalfa.

 

[rrlund]

A lady wanted me to hang cans in front of my tractor to scare off the rabbits

I guess the hum of the engine just lulls them to sleep. LOL

 

[MarkB_MI]

> She is having a party, and doesn't want rattle snakes to leave the field, as I am mowing to bite people at her party.

Now that would make for an interesting party. SoCal rattlers are HUGE! Pass out snakebite kits with the canapes.

 

[Russ from MN]

I ran a deer fawn through a haybine once, it was a mess!

 

[Welding man]

Would you believe that the USDA is actually paying farmers to install those on their tractors. Friend of mine installed one on his last week. Takes a picture and gets a check.

 

[MarkB_MI]

I nearly ran over a fawn with my tractor while mowing tall reeds. It did not move until I was right up on it.

 

[Jar7120]

Ive ran quite a few fawns through haybines and discbines over the years. Turkeys, skunks, even got a hawk once.

 

[4520BW]

I plugged the pickup reel on a new holland round baler with a deer that was killed with the discbine. It stunk so bad! The worse part was we were baling in the refuge.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

Use to be able to buy a mount and pipe with light chains hanging from it that went out over the hay in front of a sickle bar mower to scare up wildlife.

 

[SVcummins]

I?d put one on if I had a lot of animals in the hay for two reasons dead animals in the hay can cause diseases and I like animals but I don?t very often see them in the hay

 

[SVcummins]

I wonder how much they pay ?

 

[Billy Shafer]

This is Army logic. I was not allowed to have radios in the motor pool. In the field. Because the noise would give our position away. But we were allowed to crank up. The 3600 rpm generators for power. Which you good hear for a mile.

 

[Ken Macfarlane]

Hit about 1 deer per 25-50 acres of mowing here depending on the year. Seem to hit one per year with the car too.

 

[showcrop]

Or how about the one where the guy tells you "Naaaww there's nothin out there that you need to worry about hitting with your mower".

 

[37chief]

Is there a any rocks? A few, that means a lot of rocks
Is there any rocks. No that means some rocks
Is there any rocks yes. That means get someone else. Stan

 

[Fordfarmer]

1 fawn, 1 turkey, and 1 skunk with the mower last year.
A mess is hitting a fawn with a flail chopper.

 

[Billy Shafer]

I deliver liquid feed. I heard the fields are fine no chance of getting stuck. Many times. One ranch took me three hours to get out
of.

 

[Steamboat]

Which agency of USDA, and will you please give us more particulars on what the model is and how much they pay? Which area of the country is this?

 

[C.Amick]

Always hated it when the snakes got baled up live in the square bales and their heads are hanging out.

 

[LA in WI]

Back in the 1950s and 1960s in Iowa, there were a lot hen pheasants nesting in hay fields. The hen would only get off her eggs at the last second as we mowed and a lot of hens flew away with legs cut off. Every farmer I knew rigged up a pipe with chains dragging in the hay in front of the tractor.

Pheasant hunting in Iowa was a very big deal back then. How the bird population is very low as there are no places for them to nest.
LA in WI

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 22:08:46 04/26/19)
Back in the 1950s and 1960s in Iowa, there were a lot hen pheasants nesting in hay fields. The hen would only get off her eggs at the last second as we mowed and a lot of hens flew away with legs cut off. Every farmer I knew rigged up a pipe with chains dragging in the hay in front of the tractor.

Pheasant hunting in Iowa was a very big deal back then. How the bird population is very low as there are no places for them to nest.
LA in WI

LA, that is hard to picture. Since the tractor is being driven over already mowed ground you must mean that the pipe was dragging in the hay in front of the mower off to the side. Since everyone was using plain sickle bar mowers back then dragging a pipe in front of the mower would have made the mower ride over most of the hay without cutting it. Then also how would you ever contrive to hang a pipe seven feet out to the side of your tractor?

 

[Leroy]

I think their were some factory made units for that purpose. Would fold up when not in use. Never saw one in use tho. Not enough of a problem here to consider something like that.

 

[DoubleO7]

(quoted from post at 08:43:55 04/27/19)

(quoted from post at 22:08:46 04/26/19)


LA, that is hard to picture. Since the tractor is being driven over already mowed ground you must mean that the pipe was dragging in the hay in front of the mower off to the side. Since everyone was using plain sickle bar mowers back then dragging a pipe in front of the mower would have made the mower ride over most of the hay without cutting it. Then also how would you ever contrive to hang a pipe seven feet out to the side of your tractor?

Checkout this thread about the Ferguson Game Flusher.
https://forums.yesterdaystractors.c...rder=asc&highlight=pheasants&start=15