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Friday I was down as far South as I spray, doing 270 acres of the 4,000 I do for this customer. We call it the Indian land as it is hard access, rocky, sandy and generally a real pain. I hardly ever get it sprayed without a wreck of some kind and Friday was no exception
as my rear right tire on the sprayer came off on my third last pass[stud bolts all broke off from the chattering]. I decided to move my Kenworth 7 miles North and 3 miles West so I didn't have to haul the sprayer on that freakin goat trail again.
After two and half miles on the goat trail driving in 6th gear[KW has a 13 speed tranny] I come to a gravel road that has a speed curve coming from the East and on that curve is a jack rabbit loping along and it pulls in front of me as is it's right cause it did have the right of way.
It's just loping along in front of me so I figure the race is on. I grab 7th and then eighth as the rabbit just keeps loping along in front of me with both ears up and turning to keep track of it's surroundings. I grab ninth and the rabbit pulls over to the left side of the road still just loping . I grab 10th and she lays back her left ear to reduce wind drag.
Then I figure let's see what she's got and switch to eleventh and put my foot in her, the familiar throaty roar of the 400 cummins at full throttle sounds cool and that rabbit which is just outside my drivers door lays back the other ear and bears down.
For 1/2 a mile she is running right beside me like there is no way in [L] this old truck is passing her.
She had her buck teeth gritted and looked just like a 16 year old in his first drag race with determination written on her face. The gravel is flying behind her as she is throwing it up with every jump and it was the coolest experience of the spring.
At the 1 mile mark there is a trail on the left hand side of the road that leads to a fellows yard. Just before this rabbit looks up at me and fella's I swear she winked at me.
She turned left at full speed and her back slid out in a little drift as she made the turn.
Now you can watch youtube vids all day but you will never see something like this without being out in the outdoors yourself. That bunny made what most would consider a horrible day at best into the best day of the spraying season for me[by far]. I have this memory of a rabbit to go with my other rabbit stories as they have been some of my best entertainment through life.
This prompted me to come home and order two of these.
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