tractor - hey bale folks

pdug175

Often saw this whilst driving and not thought much about it, but saw a Tractor and it's hey bale folks pointing at an inviting 45 degree angle whilst out the other night. It did have a traffic cone on one of the folks but cant help but think that wouldn't be much use if you found yourself impaled on one.

It didn't half put the jeepers up me!

Wunnunda

Those hay bale fork things are lethal, and round our way the farmers often leave them set low while driving on roads. They shouldn't do it, they should be raised up high out of harms way, but I suspect it makes their tractor top heavy and they can't drive so fast. Frightening really - especially this time of year when they are working late in to the twilight.

cornerblock

Come on you two, out! This is for city commuters, not you country folk with yer strange ways, now bugger off. "Hey bales" indeed. :roll:

Wunnunda

I bet you have street lights and everything where you be...

pdug175

'hey' we don't all work in an office you know

getprg

About 5 years ago I was driving through Ilkley and came across a stationary tractor and trailer in the main street - trailer minus one of several bales (of the very very large round variety). Said bale was on the footpath with pedestrian underneath.

I called emergency services and fortunately car behind me contained a nurse - pedestrian survived.

It's dangerous out here in the country - I've always wondered why 9 out of 10 farmers in the Dales are lame in one leg.

cornerblock

pdug175 wrote:

'hey' we don't all work in an office you know

Work? That's a good one.

JamesB5446

getprg wrote:

About 5 years ago I was driving through Ilkley...

Baht 'elmet?

t4tomo

Are the hey bale folks a funk meets country music group?

Hay hay hay hay hay.

Kieran_Burns

I remember (years back) cycling through a village a week after the farmer had accidentally driven through with his sileage trailer running.

Apparently ALL the houses down one side got completely covered in raw cow sh*t

Beautiful village - the flowers did AMAZINGLY well for years, always a bit of an odd pong though.

MichaelW

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I remember (years back) cycling through a village a week after the farmer had accidentally driven through with his sileage trailer running.

Apparently ALL the houses down one side got completely covered in raw cow sh*t

Beautiful village - the flowers did AMAZINGLY well for years, always a bit of an odd pong though.

Silage is more like hey than cow pooo, it is fermented grass with a strong but not unpleasant bouquet.
Townies! geroffofmylannnnd.

Kieran_Burns

I was being polite

It was in fact liquid sh*t - one of those big spinning chain buggers and it sprayed the damn stuff everywhere

jimmypippa

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I was being polite

It was in fact liquid sh*t - one of those big spinning chain buggers and it sprayed the damn stuff everywhere

"Slurry" is perfectly polite.

walkingbootweather

Not to be pedantic but "hey" sounds like something the Fonz might say.

A farmer is more likely to carry Hay on his tractor.

t4tomo

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I was being polite

It was in fact liquid sh*t - one of those big spinning chain buggers and it sprayed the damn stuff everywhere

So it was a muck spreader not a sileage trailer then.

+1 to ignorant townies!