On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:48:44 AM UTC-7, harry wrote:
On Dec 5, 2:09*pm, " Attila Iskander"

wrote:

"harry" wrote in message



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On Dec 5, 5:21 am, Will Rogers "W.Rogers"@Where the Wind Comes















Sweepin' Down the.Plain wrote:

Apparently, it's not enough to be thieving copper in Newark, or looting

homes destroyed by hurricanes or forest-fire.



What could be lower than stealing hay from desperate farmers?



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http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/12/...-fight-rise-in....



December 3, 2012 9:49 AM



ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - As if it s not bad enough that Missouri farmers are

trying to survive the worst drought in decades, now many of them are

facing a new problem that s costing them big bucks.



Missouri Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst says thieves are actually

targeting those big bundles of hay that are left out in fields prior to

being harvested, hauling them off and selling the valuable commodity.



Of course, no one brands their hay so if you hook onto it with your

tractor or your pickup and make it out the gate, then it s impossible to

prove where the hay came from, Hurst said.



With winter approaching and grass dying out, the price for fresh hay to

feed livestock is on the rise, and Hurst says that makes unguarded bales

a tempting target.



Ironically, it s because of the ongoing drought that fresh hay has

become so valuable with the winter season fast approaching.



And it s not just Missouri. This trend is happening in farm states

across the country, so much so that some are now putting global

positioning trackers inside their bales, in case they re stolen.



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# The more I read that story the more BS it is.

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First, read up on why round bales have become so popular

* * http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1772/BAE-1...



# How do you "hook into hay"?



One way with a pickup truck.

All you need is a winch, a steel bar, an short length of cable with a loop

at each end and a ramp

1) * *Shove the steel bar through the center of the roll

2) * *hook your short cable on each of the the bar

3) * *hook your winch to the cable

4) * *roll hay wheel up ramp to back of pickup



Alternately, you can install a crane on your pickup and just lift the bale

on the back.

* *http://www.google.com/search?q=pickup+truck+crane&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isc...



Third method, use a car transporter, drop the bed near the bales, and

daisy-chain the bales onto the bed



# How are bales left out "prior to harvesting"?

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You're right that is a bit weak

But harvesting could also include removing it from the field

If you just cut, dry and roll it but leave it on the filed, the "harvesting"

is only partial

The last step, moving somewhere else for storage or use is yet to be done.



# Journalism has sunk pretty low in the USA.



Not as low as education in England, if we go by your performance.



How do you shove a steel bar through the centre of a hay bale? It is

packed almost as hard as if it were a block of timber.

And even if you succeeded, how would you get it out?

I see you know as little as these journalists.

Face it Harry...you are dumber than a post. I can see that your education has
been incomplete at best.