Falling From Horses
“The high school in Burns was twenty miles by road from the Echol ranch. A school bus came out from town to pick up the farm and ranch kids at Foy, where they waited out of the weather in a building that had been part of the old rock quarry offices, but Henry or Martha had to drive their son from the ranch to the highway junction every morning on winter roads and make the trip again in the afternoon to bring him home.
Even in dry weather, getting up and down between the ranch and the bus stop, s...ixteen miles round trip, could take an hour or better. In some places they had to gear down and take it slow, the truck’s thin tires bouncing heavily, and the ridge between the ruts sometimes scraping the axle. If the truck hit something hard enough to mash the oil pan, they had to stop and crawl under, take off the pan and beat out the dents with a hammer, put it back on, and add fresh oil. In spring, when the parkland flooded the road, they had to drive wide, veering off through the trees and willow brush, and even then sometimes the truck mired down, and they had to walk the rest of the way home and bring back the mules, hook a chain to the axle, and haul the rig out by brute force.MoreLess
Even in dry weather, getting up and down between the ranch and the bus stop, s...ixteen miles round trip, could take an hour or better. In some places they had to gear down and take it slow, the truck’s thin tires bouncing heavily, and the ridge between the ruts sometimes scraping the axle. If the truck hit something hard enough to mash the oil pan, they had to stop and crawl under, take off the pan and beat out the dents with a hammer, put it back on, and add fresh oil. In spring, when the parkland flooded the road, they had to drive wide, veering off through the trees and willow brush, and even then sometimes the truck mired down, and they had to walk the rest of the way home and bring back the mules, hook a chain to the axle, and haul the rig out by brute force.MoreLess
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