Posted on 09/09/2015 4:37:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
From days of yore, it used to be a big event when taking down a big stack of bales of hay. The stack would be surrounded by men and boys with small caliber rifles, and lots of dogs, with terriers preferred.
Men would climb on top of the stack and start throwing down bales, and as they did, a flood of mice and rats would exit the bottom in all directions. And the slaughter would begin.
Prized “ratter” dogs were highly valued, and killed more than their weight in mice and rats at one of these events.
Based on these rural events, “rat baiting” in urban cellars, particularly in the UK, was a very popular sport, in which captured rats were slaughtered to determine champion breeds of terrier, the last major event happening in 1912. Some dogs killing over a hundred rats in just eight minutes.
This being said, I wonder what kind of mice and rat control are used today?
I don’t know about others, but for me, I always have a least one dog tagging along and a .410 on the tractor.
Cats on my ranch.
Roll in the hay.....????
We call them “one ton bales” around here, but they are somewhat less that 1000 pounds depending on moisture content.
Somebody may have been dealing with untrained or only lightly trained men, and got into too much of a hurry.
Terrible way to go, although one presumes the guy was either knocked unconcious or quickly smothered.
Yes and these are 3ft. by 4ft. by 8ft. 4X4X8s will go 1500 to 2000 depending on cutting and a high density bale will go up to 2600 or so. That is alfalfa...
Killed by a hay bale while driving down the road.
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About the average vehicle for what I see illegals in my area using. Granted they may belong to a company and they are contracted labor but illegals here often drive vehicles DOD workers can't afford. It's also where you are most likely to see a work accident. They don't understand the safety issues.
He was crushed. Reminds me of the time my nephew was pouring concrete retaining walls and his friend was crushed when a wall was bumped over by a skid steer. The poor kid was still alive but dying slowly. Needless to say, the experience was very very traumatic to my nephew. He could do nothing but watch his friend’s life ebb away. It took awhile for him to get over it.. At least it isn’t apparent on the exterior.
Yeah - we mostly buy 120# three string bales for the horses. I can hand truck those into the hay storage three at a time. Just barely. And not always.
We go 80#-90# two-stringers when we can’t get anything else. Be nice to get 500#ers, but we don’t have the equipment or the barn structure to handle them.
Jack Russells are the best ratters. A Jack on a mission is a sight to behold. When my son was a teenager he used to rent his dog out to clean out hay barns. She could kill several hundred in an hour if the barn was really bad.
Never seen big squares, just the round ones.
ya...these aren’t the bales we bucked in High School.....
Where the heck is that from?
I’d say they were not likely illegals.Getting paid all cash. No withholding of income tax or FICA, no self-employment tax, no California income tax, no contractor's license fees, no business license.That’s close to $60,000 worth of hardware there.
Illegals that have been here for years can be pretty established. They can get a TPIN number from the IRS and use it instead of a social; then can have bank accounts, credit cards, buy things on the credit- including homes. Those that are that established usually do it by subcontracting work and they hire other illegals.
The person doing the contracting also may not be an illegal; they may just hire illegal workers then the business they contract to can say they don’t. That rig may belong to the contractor, not the workers.
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