Deadstock transport. Good image for farming?

[Punch]

A freind sent this picture to my wife. Going around local busy junction. Said it must be genuine because of the smell after I'd told her it was faked, no way would someone transport dead stock like that.

I still can't believe it!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Diabolical if it's genuine

 

[Henarar]

should be strapped down

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Least there doesn't look to be blood and guts running down the side of the pick up and on the road, pooling nicely where they park up to do whatever it is deadstock men do in town on a weekend.

 

[Flossie]

Should have been sheeted......but why wouldn't you have the knacker pick it up where it died? (I'm assuming it's a farmer-a local butcher uses a pickup for on-farm collections-but he's got chequer greedy boards)

 

[Kingofgrass]

Had someone pick a injured cow up once etc he said just drop it in the back of the pickup I was like your jokin..no he wasn't think it's wrong in my eyes

 

[Man_in_black]

I've taken fresh ewe in back of truck, tarpaulin tied tight nobody any the wiser what I was transporting. No smell no blood no problem.

 

[Alf]

its dead, so what's the problem ?

 

[Beef farmer]

I actually burst out laughing when I saw that. Yeah it's not great, and I would transport it differently, but it's massively funny.

 

[AGN76]

(Rumour has it) the local odd bod farmer carried a cow, that had done the splits, home through the local town on a flat bed trailer with a tractor and loader behind ready to drop a bale on it if she tried to get up!

 

[David.]

At least it is not on a muck grab, which I have seen before, albeit not in Town.
This Country has screwed up sensibilities TBH, it's alright for kids to play blood and guts video games, and then people freak at sight of a dead cow. We saw dead cows on road allowance in Canada that had been hit by a truck, and there they laid for weeks.

 

[sheepwise]

Went shearing once to a farmer's rented ground about 30 miles from his home farm. Anyway an old blackie ewe died in the pens after shearing and the farmer had no way of transporting it home as the back of the subaru pick-up was already overloaded with the wool sheets.So we threw her up onto the roof of the pick up and tied her down with a bit of rope and she stayed there for the trip home which took in a couple of small towns and villages. This was probably 25 years ago when people had a sense of humour and were less likely to take offence.

 

[Bury the Trash]

with sheep and a designated sensible place /soil type ..agreed, .. on farm burial should still be allowed.

maybe with a numbers limit annually on one holding. or land area.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

So many precious people around nowadays.

 

[topground]

Where you have livestock you have deadstock and where you have a Knacker man collecting you have extra costs. If you have a pickup and can load deadstock you save some of the transport cost.
Perfectly legal to transport your own Animal Bi Products.
Nothing to see here, move on!

 

[spin cycle]

might not have been dead....just 'resting'....sorry

 

[harperfarmer]

I doubt the beast complained! And the public is generally against live exports after all......

 

[deere66]

Got lumbered with a professional knacker from Middlesbrough during F&M, flat wagon with a hiab FFS, but a least he had a sheet

 

[RobFZS]

Had someone pick a injured cow up once etc he said just drop it in the back of the pickup I was like your jokin..no he wasn't think it's wrong in my eyes

had one that had to be emergency slaughtered and there's only a few that will do it in the area, one firm suggested the above, couldn't believe what i was hearing tbh , pee sh!t and blood everywhere lifting it up aswell i reckon

 

[Kiss]

had one that had to be emergency slaughtered and there's only a few that will do it in the area, one firm suggested the above, couldn't believe what i was hearing tbh , pee sh!t and blood everywhere lifting it up aswell i reckon

Do it here emergencys on the back walkers on the trailer. Well sheeted over and we lift them on with the tractor