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Topic: This really happened
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Olderndirt

08-31-2009 17:53:49
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Several seasons ago, my wife, daughter and I were planting a garden at our newly acquired country farmstead. A beautiful sunny day with a hint of breeze. A good sized carboard box with garden seed packets suddenly started dancing around as a "dust devil" circular wind came by. I managed to chase and grab the box and we all ran around grabbing seed packets, some of them right in the air. But two or three packets went sailing above our reach and the last we see of them 1/8 mile away, 200-300 feet in the air headed for a woods. Oldrndirt

Sid

08-31-2009 21:24:58
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Yes, I remember as a kid we used to have dust devils quite often. I would drive the baler while dad would stack the wagon behind baler. One afternoon Daddy had just picked up a bale of hay when a dust devil picked it up and carried it off. When we got to the house we found that bale in the shed beside the bar. It had hit the grymantixamater on Granddaddy's old TRI Essex and when it bent it the the aximater on the old gal and it could barely. We found two of them in a fence row and hope some day to rebuild that old Triessex of Granddadyy's. My uncle has the owners manual as well as the shop manual. Just waiting for the moon to be in the right position with Orion and Uranus to line up with mars so we can do it.

NE IA

08-31-2009 19:33:25
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The old timers used to say that it was a sign of dry weather.

In Iowa it is not uncomon at all in the summer months.

A buddy and I once saw a paper feed sack continue upwards till it was out of sight. We were supposed to be unloading hay together, but we took turns watching in shifs when the other persons eyes were getting tired. It took over a half hr to fourty five munites to disapear.

Once in a while we would see a chunk of hay from a windrow go upward in a cirle type motion, but usualy they returned to the ground after a couple munites. Now days the windrows are much bigger from wider mowers so that probably haulted the heavenly hay.

I haven't seen one for twenty years now, but I don't spend alot of farm time now either.

GeneMO

08-31-2009 19:06:01
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And now the neighbors wonder why they have carrots growing in their pasture?

Gene

B Love

08-31-2009 18:21:39
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that's sure enough a country post thanks

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