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that doesn't paint a good mental image no matter how you think about it.
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big e
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Good point.
The one's I deal with were all quite healthy but have died of lead poisoning.
I think it has more to do with the velocity of the lead than the poisoning. :laughing:
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I grew up in a small agricultural town with a typical main street layout. One day, a rendering truck had to hit its brakes hard, and a hogs head fell out on to the street. The smell was terrible--the street cleared in seconds! The fire dept had to come out and hose the street down.
Years later, in So. Cal. dairy country, a rendering truck pulled into my auto repair business looking to get a rear dual tire repaired. The stench was overpowering with customers fleeing and gagging. I told the driver I couldn't help him because my shop was not set up for large truck tire service (split rims etc) which was true. I sent him down the road to a truck stop. It was all I could do to stand near that truck and talk to the driver. Amazingly, he wasn't fazed at all! It took a good hour for the air to clear. Mike.
Years later, in So. Cal. dairy country, a rendering truck pulled into my auto repair business looking to get a rear dual tire repaired. The stench was overpowering with customers fleeing and gagging. I told the driver I couldn't help him because my shop was not set up for large truck tire service (split rims etc) which was true. I sent him down the road to a truck stop. It was all I could do to stand near that truck and talk to the driver. Amazingly, he wasn't fazed at all! It took a good hour for the air to clear. Mike.
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buddy of mine drive a sewer truck. on the way back from a call something went wrong with engine idle and truck would die at low rpm.. so at stops he'd kick on the governor to keep rpms up.. this also made the vent fan blow ( as if he was at a call pumping out a tank ).. anyway.. he got pulled over by dot for something on the way back to his shop.. probbaly going a lil fast trying to limp the truck back to get it fixed.. anyway.. dot guy couldn't stand the smell and let him go with a warning to slow down, shouted from the roadside about 10' from the truck. 
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nwngunner
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Around here there is no one who does this type of service. The rendering trucks wanted almost 300 dollars to come get a horse we lost. With in 16hours he was massivly bloated and split open. While the smell was bad you can deal with it.
Unfortunatly i dont have the equipment to be digging holes the size of a horse espcially that deep. So i had to do the only option i had. I built a big logpile and a bunch of gas and set the horse in with the loader.
While it may not be the best thing to do, the smell stoped extreamly fast, there were no buggs no scavangers nothing. Just make sure you have a fire that will burn for 2 or 3 days as the fat can and will sit there and smolder like a candle.
Unfortunatly i dont have the equipment to be digging holes the size of a horse espcially that deep. So i had to do the only option i had. I built a big logpile and a bunch of gas and set the horse in with the loader.
While it may not be the best thing to do, the smell stoped extreamly fast, there were no buggs no scavangers nothing. Just make sure you have a fire that will burn for 2 or 3 days as the fat can and will sit there and smolder like a candle.
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every time I read this I wonder when my 27yr old quarter horse is going to go down.. and where....
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Just before big brother changed the farming laws my BIL and I bought a cow from a farmer about 20 miles away. Farmer shot and loaded the cow onto (NOT into) our trailer and gave us directions on a "shorter way" to get from his farm to our part-time butcher, who knew we were coming.
My BIL is one of these know-it-all wheeler dealers and promptly got us lost, resulting heading down the main street of town with a dead cow on a small flatbed trailer.
As a result of the new laws we would now have to hire a cow hauler to take the live cow 60 miles to the slaughterhouse, pay to have it killed, then transport it (in approved vehicle) to the local licensed butcher.
Makes our venison seem simple.....at least we can still do that ourselves..
My BIL is one of these know-it-all wheeler dealers and promptly got us lost, resulting heading down the main street of town with a dead cow on a small flatbed trailer.
As a result of the new laws we would now have to hire a cow hauler to take the live cow 60 miles to the slaughterhouse, pay to have it killed, then transport it (in approved vehicle) to the local licensed butcher.
Makes our venison seem simple.....at least we can still do that ourselves..
