On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:01:01 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:16:17 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
Likewise, we had one that we ran off an 8N Ford. Everybody had one
back then. Don't recall hearing of accidents with them, though
looking back, it's almost amazing you didn't.

Back then, communications weren't near as rampant as they are today.
Also people were more liable to keep their problems, deaths, injuries,
whatever within their own specific communities. At least, that's the
way it was in the communities I lived in.

Well - communitites were a lot tighter then - albeit, larger than the micro
communities of today. Farmers knew each other, their daily goings-on, etc.
Local communications were quite quick and spread throughout the "community".
When someone got hurt, everyone knew it within the day, and as was the
course, neighbors rose to helping out. People may have kept personal issues
to themselves more than the idiot Facebook mentality of today, but that was
not true of events such as farming accidents, deaths, etc. You had the
communications between neighbors, but you also had the "network" which
consisted of "carriers" such as the milk truck driver, etc. that got the
word spread quite widely, quite quickly. Indeed - if accidents did happen
on the farm, everybody around knew about it very quickly.
And don't forget the best tella-communication on the planet -
Tella-woman. The old gossip-mills were every bit as effective as
Facebook in spreading the word - whether it be a farm accident,
someone's cattle getting out, a sick cow, a "new arrival" or whatever.
The "party line" and "rubberin" that went along with them made sure
there were few secrets.