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Ah, can it be already? Our an
nual Holstein state spring cattle
show and sale looms ahead this
week, bringing a mix of an
ticipation and dread. The dread
part is based in memory of past
cattle hauling adventures, like
losing hay on the highway, near
collisions with no-yield drivers,
and parts of the truck sides flying
off around the ears of startled
heifers.
Still, none of our show mishaps
comes even close to the high
drama adventures of Chester
Countian Carl Yoder and his show
rig convoy partner Harvey
Stolzfus.
Yoder and Stolzfus pulled out
last Labor Day, bound for the Fall
Holstein show at State College.
Headed west on the turnpike, his
pickup packed with show equip-
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ment and trailer filled with cattle,
Yoder thought he saw smoke rising
occasionally from under the rig.
Pulling over at the Hershey exit,
his pickup lost drive power.
lifting the truck hood, Yoder
found oil departing beneath and
flames flicking up around the sides
of the motor. With precise timing,
a state trooper headed East spied
the fire and hustled over with an
extinguisher. He tossed it to Yoder
with the request to put the fire out
himself, so he wouldn’t “get the
stuff” all over his uniform.
Fire out, Yoder sent Stolzfus on
ahead, left an assistant with the
cattle, and went with the trooper to
a phone to call a neighbor with a
similar truck. While the light
hookups connected, the trailer
brakes and borrowed truck didn’t.
Still, the owner offered the sub
stitute pickup for the rest of show
week. Yoder, proceeding with
extra caution, pulled into the Ag
Arena just a few hours late.
Show week was uneventful, at
least until show day. While Yoder’s
wife was assisting at the show
desk, her brother went to the
parking lot, to move her year and a
half old car. The drive shaft fell
out.
Show ended, Yoder planned an
early departure, remembering the
long, steep haul down Seven
Mountains and his inoperable
trailer brakes. When the trailer
clearance lights refused to connect
as well, Stolzfus offered to bring up
the rear with his rig. Headed out of
town, the two rigs were promptly
separated by traffic light stops.
Still, Yoder continued on,
shoving the borrowed pickup into
second as he cleared the mountain
and started down the long grade.
Strange. What looked like sparks
bounced off the road behind him
occasionally. Near the bottom, he
eased up into third, and the sparks
and hings of smoke disappeared.
Imagination does funny things to
one’s mind, anyway. And, where
was Harvey?
But flashing lights and attempts
to pass by a pickup to his rear
weren’t imaginary. On the flats
near Milroy, Yoder finally pulled
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off into a field, to be greeted with
“two guys running up from
behind” who yelled about a fire.
On the back of the borrowed
pickup, flames licked around his
portable milker. As Yoder fran
tically pitched the milker to the
ground and stomped the fire, a
Roadway trucker halted his big rig
mid-highway and dashed over with
a fire extinguisher.
The milker had pushed hay and
straw bits through the truck bed,
where they ignited on the muffler
beneath. News of fire on a truck
hauling a silver trailer down Seven
Mountains had swept the CB
channels.
And, as he pulled back on the
road, there in the rear view
mirror, finally, was Harvey.
Down the road just a bit farther,
Yoder pulled off for gas. But,
Harvey had disappeared again.
Shortly, he came pulling in, but
relates Yoder with a chuckle, “He
looked a little mad.”
Seemed Stolzfus had been halted
by a state trooper, who pulled him
off and insisted he had a fire on his
rig, because it had been “all over
the CB.” Harvey, unaware of
Yoder’s plight, had to do some fast
talking to convince the trooper that
he indeed did not have a fire in his
pickup and silver trailer.
One year previous, to and from
the State Holstein Show at
Meadville, this same traveling
pair dealt with flat tires, absence
of jacks, and Yoder’s truck motor
cracking two heads.
Carl Yoder’s truck departs for
the Farm Show complex this week
with a brand new motor and a new
transmission.
Now he’s worried he won’t have
anything to talk about all week.
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