Posted on 09/09/2015 4:37:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One man was killed and another was injured Wednesday morning after being buried under 1,300 pounds of hay at a farm in the West Valley, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
The accident happened around 9 a.m. at a farm located near Harquahala Valley and Courthouse roads.
Officer Christopher Hegstrom said four men were independently contracted to remove a large tarp that was placed over a stack of hay bales measuring approximately eight bales high, eight bales deep and 15 bales long.
While removing the cover, the front bales tumbled over and one man was crushed underneath the pile, Hegstrom said.
The other man received minor injuries while trying to get out of the way.
The professional tarp contractors here in eastern Washington all use hispanics.
Large squares,thay weigh about 800lbs each.
“Big bales have been around for several years. Thats how they bale hay for the large dairy farms. Depending on the type of hay they can go 900 to 1900 (grass or alfalfa). Takes special equipment to stack/unstack. I always stand way back when buying from the stack and loading my truck.”
Correct. But more like decades. They’re great....if you have the means to deal with them.
Those weren’t alfalfa, not anywheres near that heavy.
“Also doesn’t mention these “independent contractors were illegal aliens. I can guarantee it.”
I agree 100%. I absolutely loathe it.
“IT’S A TARP1”
One of the farm boys talked about haying season. He recounted a story of how one time he was pulling a wagon with a load of hay bales. The bales were the circular, roll-type bales and not the cube kind.
One time one of the huge roll type bales fell off the wagon, rolled down a hill, and almost smacked into a car driving on a road below the hill. I then assumed that particular action must occur many times during haying season across the country. The area where I live is very hilly and many farms have their fields on hillsides. Something to think about as you're driving through the hilly countryside during haying season.
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I’d bet that the tarp probably weighs close to a ton.
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The truck and trailer could be the farm owners. More likely, it’s owned by the illegal crew boss. They prolly all share a small apartment the either do or maybe don’t even pay rent on, save about every penny they earn, sending most of it back to Mexico (without taxes) and the crew boss HAS to have the truck, and he’s VERY proud of it. These are jobs Americans should be doing. I’d also be willing to bet that the owner of the farm is a republican, and says “you just can’t find an American to do this kinda work or work this hard”. THIS is where heavy fines MUST be employed and enforced upon ANY business that hires illegals.
Average weight for the large bales is 1,200 #. You only see large bales for commercial operations. Two string bales are
for the horsey set, three string for the gentleman rancher, and the round bales are keep on the ranch.
Yeppers! Exactly right.
Those bales are much heavier. You were thinking of the mid sized squares.
MFO
You never stack that many high. Numerous accidents in KS over the years, especially with the round bales.
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Are you kidding me?
That's the scope of the problem here in Arizona and all along the border. How do you think it is that illegals send over $15,000,000,000.00 to Mexico in just ONE Year?
Remittances to Mexico exceeded oil revenues in 2014, making illegal aliens in America the number one component of Mexico's GDP.
Which brings us to our lousy economy. How strong would our economy be if we added $15 Billion per year in domestic spending?
Welcome to America. I work at a landfill and many of our undocumented customers have BETTER rigs than that. Dually axle, F350’s, 2-3 axle dumping trailers. And they pay with 100 dollar bills. (Some of them counterfeit). Go figure.
We had a house full of mexicans down the street from us. Actually more like three housefulls crammed into the rambler.
They had to park the Escalade, the Excursion and the Range Rover on the yard.
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