You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...

[MossRoad]

The electric fence thing even some country boys learn about the hard way and end up dead.....at least the one I know of.....and I don't know anything about such fences with first hand experience. That's a sad story for my cousin.

Someone died from an electric fence?

 

[motownbrowne]

Someone died from an electric fence?

The woman I talked to on the phone at Premier One (great supplier of electric fence and supplies) told me of a case of a toddler getting tangled in one and dying. I never verified it, but it certainly sounds possible. Of course they'd have to be unattended and then be entangled for quite some time. An unattended toddler could easily find many potentially deadly hazards on a farm, though. Nothing exceptionally dangerous about an electric fence.

 

[Wagtail]

I leave my keys in my pickup parked in the driveway. After all, what if there was an emergency and one of my neighbors needed it?

I don't go quite that far... the keys are in the house on their usual peg (same as the tractor keys, on the peg above). The house is never locked so if the neighbour were to need either, they know where they are. My ute as a tendency to 'auto-lock' on occasion so I don't leave the keys in when it's shut off.

As to the house never being locked? I've got floor to ceiling french doors... if a thief wanted in they'd simply break a window and open the door anyway :confused3:.

It does take a guest a couple of days to get used to the idea that the house isn't locked at night, and that it's so darned quiet... and dark! They're usually 'cured' the first time they see the Milky Way on a clear, moonless night.

 

[cat fever]

It seems like every year I hear a story how someone from Chicago goes deer hunting and checks in a cow at the local deer check station. I suspect this is an urban legend but you never know. In recent years Illinois no longer requires you to check a deer in, you can do it on line, now I guess the meat locker clues people in if they haul a cow in with a shot gun slug hole in it.

I seen a T-shirt in Afton Wyoming. Showed a woman holding her gun on a old cowboy saying "it's my elk I shot it." He said "OK, just let me get my saddle off it."

 

[reb]

... We always laugh when folks build downwind from farming and then complain when the dust is kicked up when farmer is working field or the pigs smell...

The laugh was reversed on some friends a few years ago when the new folks banded together and got the feedlot run out of town.

 

[RichZ]

That's why we have "right to farm laws" in New York. I imagine many other states have them.

 

[Rascalsweet]

Then there is the corollary, Country kid goes to the big City.

LIke when your kids pees off the porch in the middle of the city.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

When the kids were little we bought a tent trailer to use up at the gold mining claim. Older daughter took along a little friend one weekend. We couldn't get her out of the trailer. "There's so much dirt out there!"

Friend of mine took his wife and 5 year old to visit his parents who live in the country. His son, who was intently studying the countryside, made the remark: "Daddy, they sure hauled a lot of dirt in here, didn't they?" Apparently his view of the world was that it was all concrete and asphalt, and the dirt was hauled in.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I love when we have relatives from the city visiting and they not only lock their cars, but they also put their car alarms on. I point out that we leave the keys in our unlocked cars, trucks and tractors, and one of our tractors is worth much more than their car. Who do they think is gonna steal their car???? You can't even see another house from our house.

If there is a field fire, somebody better be able to start that tractor and drive it out of danger. If they know what they are doing, they might even use the tractor to fight the fire.

 

[turnkey4099]

I put an electric fence around my garden about 10 years ago. I never touched one before. And I've heard hundreds of stories about people touching them, so what the heck, they lived to tell about it, so.... I touched it. It felt like an itty-bitty static shock. I was very disappointed. So I kicked off my sandals and stood barefoot in the dirt and tried it again....

I have a sister who swears that she cannot feel the shock. I have seen her grab a live one and she doesn't jerk or show any symptoms at all.


I also had a heifer who apparently could smell when the wire was hot. She was one fence crawling cow, I watcher her testing the wire with her nose almost touching it and doing it repeatedly down the fence. Charger shut off, she'd be out instantly.