I was passed by one of these last night!!! And you city folk complain about urban assult vehicles!


I've also heard you complain about bus exhaust... Last night I had to wash the taste out of my mouth after riding past one of these in a field!

I can relate.

Around here we have a thriving chicken production industry, so chicken poop is plentiful.

When you ride past a field where one of these spreaders is operating, the foul (intentional pun) aura is so caustic that it induces coughing fits and makes your eyes water. Liquified chicken poop is apparently quite powerful stuff.

But you know what? I'd rather have our manure spreaders than those nasty diesel fumes that the city dwellers put up with every day!

POOP TRUCK

i suppose everyone else has seen that video?

I ride past a dairy farm twice daily. I'd rather ride past them the whole 10 miles than get passed by one car with bad emissions. The dairy farm just smells bad; the car is pushing out stuff that can permanently harm me. I've had cars pass me that cause my eyes to water and my throat to burn for MINUTES afterwards. Even in mid-summer the dairy farm is never that bad, even when they've spread manure on their fields.

That's funny...I've ridden by fields freshly manured...would not want to do it again. I can only imagine the horrors of chicken ****.

Grew up on a dairy farm and also had chickens. Spent too many years in the city for college. Cow **** smells like home I'll take that over the awful air in the city and car exhaust any day

At least now I'm in an unincorporated town surrounded by farms. My wife isn't keen on the cow crap(city girl), but I love it

Is that the Hummer H4 or the Chevy Exurban?

I grew up around farm smells in rural IL. My parents house is surrounded by pig farms, but we have plenty of dairy farms in the area, and I've worked on a few. You get used to the manure smell. Its pretty harmless. My favorite is the sweet-sour smell of concentrated piglet **** . Its distinctly different from adult pig ****. Put up hay in a barn filled with piglets and you never forget it.

Its not as scary as a combine that takes up both lanes of the road.

The sprayer scared the $#!^ out of me! It was so windy that I felt him behind me before I heard him! Those beasts are 12 feet wide and cruise at 45-50 mph! He moved over and had pleanty of room to pass, but it still scared me half to death!

Welcome to the world of "eaters" and the "food" that is eaten.

We all know where food comes from - not the supermarket. Foot that is eaten needs "fertilizer" or it makes the fertilizer. There is no way to flush the fertilizer down a toilet as the urban folks do and then forget about it - someone else's problem with the "sewage", so it is now spread on the fields. Do I hear the 2 ecologically friendly words: "organic" and "recycle"???

Yup, just as we are past the single speed Montgomary-Wards, Sears and Huffy bicycles of our never-to-return youth, farmers are past horses, stone-boats and single furrowed plows.

I know I am already "preaching' to the "enlightened" and "knowledgeable", so I might as well go eat, fart and go bicycling.. and watch the crops grow ;-) There is more hunger just a few moments from now ;-)

I like being here in kansas. We have mostly cattle. The smell of cattle I don't find all that sickening. A few hours away in Missouri poultry farming is big and that stuff is horrible. The amount of ammonia in that stuff is amazing.

Official ranking (worst to best):

1. Pig ****, concentrated, in pools, outside a modern pig confinement shed
2. Chicken ****, concentrated
3. Old fashioned, free-range pig ****
4. Old fashioned, free-range chicken ****
5. Horse ****
6. Cow ****

I have no experience with goat or sheep ****, so I left them out.

In my experience, if you complain about any of these smells to a farmer, he will respond: "Mmmmm....smells like money to me."

Fixed

Richest man in my town made it in the fertalizer business.
Goat and sheep **** ain't so bad.

Goats don't smell too bad. They raise alot around here. You should add turkey **** to your list above chicken.

yeah, that all sounds nasty! Going by the city of Denvers' Waste Water Treatment Plant is gross in its' own way! Of course riding by the trash collection depot in the same mile is nasty too...

I think I'd rather take the farm poo over bipedal schmear. Even if the trucks are MadMax large and scary!!