0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.
incredible work by western KS farmersQuoteI want to give a shout out to a couple of true heroes! An incident happened on I-70 yesterday (Dec. 19, 2023) that led a NW Kansas farmer and his son to do extraordinary things to keep people safe in our county. A semi-truck driver traveling west on I-70, had a medical incident where he blacked out. His semi went into the median at highway speeds! Traveling in the median, it stayed between the traffic lanes for about a quarter of mile where it jumped over a crossover. This slowed the semi-truck down. The farmer and his son traveling in the same direction noticed the driver needing help, so they went into action. The semi-truck slowed down enough so they could jump onto the passenger’s side, but they found the door locked. The son riding on the semi-truck asked his dad to throw him a hammer. He then broke the window out, crawled into the semi-truck and stopped the semi-truck before it got to the overpass at exit 17. This action more than likely saved the life of the truck driver along with protecting all the other travelers on I-70 and Highway 27. It is amazing what people will do to help others they do not know. Thank you to Brent Ginther and his son Brady for your heroic actions. Our community is incredibly grateful!Sheriff Burton PianaltoSherman County Sheriff’s Officehttps://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice
I want to give a shout out to a couple of true heroes! An incident happened on I-70 yesterday (Dec. 19, 2023) that led a NW Kansas farmer and his son to do extraordinary things to keep people safe in our county. A semi-truck driver traveling west on I-70, had a medical incident where he blacked out. His semi went into the median at highway speeds! Traveling in the median, it stayed between the traffic lanes for about a quarter of mile where it jumped over a crossover. This slowed the semi-truck down. The farmer and his son traveling in the same direction noticed the driver needing help, so they went into action. The semi-truck slowed down enough so they could jump onto the passenger’s side, but they found the door locked. The son riding on the semi-truck asked his dad to throw him a hammer. He then broke the window out, crawled into the semi-truck and stopped the semi-truck before it got to the overpass at exit 17. This action more than likely saved the life of the truck driver along with protecting all the other travelers on I-70 and Highway 27. It is amazing what people will do to help others they do not know. Thank you to Brent Ginther and his son Brady for your heroic actions. Our community is incredibly grateful!Sheriff Burton PianaltoSherman County Sheriff’s Office
my one and only time in western kansas was spent pheasant hunting in a town between quinter and park, kansas, with some locals.the locals shot at every single living animal that we came across including a hedgehog, an owl, and multiple other species. they were very careful, however, to only shoot male pheasants
Quote from: Sandstone Outcropping on December 21, 2023, 02:40:59 PMincredible work by western KS farmersQuoteI want to give a shout out to a couple of true heroes! An incident happened on I-70 yesterday (Dec. 19, 2023) that led a NW Kansas farmer and his son to do extraordinary things to keep people safe in our county. A semi-truck driver traveling west on I-70, had a medical incident where he blacked out. His semi went into the median at highway speeds! Traveling in the median, it stayed between the traffic lanes for about a quarter of mile where it jumped over a crossover. This slowed the semi-truck down. The farmer and his son traveling in the same direction noticed the driver needing help, so they went into action. The semi-truck slowed down enough so they could jump onto the passenger’s side, but they found the door locked. The son riding on the semi-truck asked his dad to throw him a hammer. He then broke the window out, crawled into the semi-truck and stopped the semi-truck before it got to the overpass at exit 17. This action more than likely saved the life of the truck driver along with protecting all the other travelers on I-70 and Highway 27. It is amazing what people will do to help others they do not know. Thank you to Brent Ginther and his son Brady for your heroic actions. Our community is incredibly grateful!Sheriff Burton PianaltoSherman County Sheriff’s Officehttps://www.facebook.com/ShermanCountySheriffsOffice
NOT COW FARM RELATED
Quote from: steve dave on December 21, 2023, 05:44:21 PMNOT COW FARM RELATEDsorry to derail your very good farm thread, SD. I may start a Kansas True Crime thread.
Quote from: Sandstone Outcropping on December 21, 2023, 06:16:17 PMQuote from: steve dave on December 21, 2023, 05:44:21 PMNOT COW FARM RELATEDsorry to derail your very good farm thread, SD. I may start a Kansas True Crime thread.SD just jealous he didn't get to rodeo a runaway truck
Same truck?https://www.kake.com/story/50233647/kansas-farmers-and-ranchers-help-round-up-cattle-after-semi-crash
cowboys rounding up crashed truck cattle is a daily event in KS irl.
Serious question. We have dogs getting ACL surgery, but if you're a horse and break your leg, well, the treatment is still the same as it was since guns were invented? TomSent from my SM-S916U using Tapatalk
I recently learned a new ben ji's dad/farm story. In the early 80's my dad had a great idea to plant 200 walnut tree's on the cat ranch windbreak. The plan was to cut them down and sell them when he retired like 40 years later. (For reference the cat ranch is in NW KS where there are very few trees). He took a week off work to hand dig holes and plant 200 walnut tree's one summer.....they all died within 10 years except for like 2 of them that ended up where the snow drifted. This conversation ensue'dben ji "so did you ask grandpa if you could do it? what did he say?"dad "Yeah, I asked to make sure it was okay and he just snickered and said "sure go ahead""ben ji "so he didn't think they would survive but you went ahead and bought 200 walnut seedling and hand planted them"dad "Sometimes you have to do something to learn it won't work" That walnut windbreak was replaced with a cedar windbreak a couple of years later which is still there. I'm out here bird hunting and my dad is coming out tomorrow so hopefully he can show me the few remaining walnut trees that were part of his retirement plan.
