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A Tale of Two Winches!
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Hello to everyone who passes
by here to read our little adventures! This story begins on a
normal Kansas day. When I grew up in Kansas, we had this saying "If you
don't like the weather in Kansas, wait five minutes, it'll change!" If
you have ever lived there, you will know what I am talking
about. We could literally start the day with no clouds, bright
sunshine, and just a nice little breeze and within 15 minutes it could
be raining cats and dogs!
Another thing
about Kansas, and really any rural area, is the roads. They may or may
not actually GO somewhere....and they may or may not be maintained. So
it can be an adventure to just get around.
So as
you can imagine, we embarked on a usual day or searching when a rather
big storm blew in quite quickly and just poured on us. Not only were
the guys caught literally in the pouring rain, they had to make a mad
dash for the closest overpass they could get under to get out of it. We
definately did not want to ruin our expensive equipment by giving it a
bath!
But,
remember the mantra of Kansas weather- 30 minutes later, the sun was
shining again and there was not a cloud in sight!
Testing the ground where we were staying, the guys decided it was
definately dry enough to go back to work; so off they went. The way the
guys work is to cover as much ground as possible and then move on, so
they are usually in fairly close proximity to each other. On that day,
Keith and Guy were at one end of the field, while Mike was a little
further away. In Kansas, at least while we were there, the grass had
grown quite tall, and was very thick. The grass also had weeds
and wilflowers that sometimes make the going get tough. The terrain is
not nice and smooth; it is more like rolling hills with chasms cut out
from creek and pond runoffs. These make for beautiful scenery, but not
so good on quads!
Keith caught Guy loafing, that day....at least that is what
he thought Guy was doing...until Keith went closer and saw that Guy was
actually stuck- almost buried in grass!
Luckily, Keith has a winch on his quad and was able to
rescue Guy. But from the looks of this picture, I'm not so sure that
Guy wanted rescued! LOL!
A couple days later, it was Mikes turn. He too, got stuck
after one of the normal rainy days in Kansas and Keith had to winch him
out as well. Unfortunately, Keith did not have his camera with him at
that time to catch Mike stuck!
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