LUCKNOW, India—A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said Sunday. The wagon was carrying around 40 people returning from a ceremony at a nearby local Hindu temple Saturday night, said police Superintendent Tej Swaroop […]
As rising floodwaters stranded hundreds of factory workers in New Jersey, fire crews improvised, ferrying them to safety in the bucket of a bulldozer. Video footage shows the front loader carrying nine people at a time through several feet of water in Fairview, New Jersey, following torrential rain on Sept. 25. Fire crews supervised a variety […]
Farmers in Thailand take time to have some fun before the busy planting season starts by waterproofing their rice-paddy tractors and racing through swamps. Rural farmers call these tractors “iron buffalo.” With their long handles, they are not far removed from traditional plowing rigs pulled by buffalo or oxen used for millennia to farm these […]
The farmer said he had moved the bales from the fence, so the bull calves couldn’t put their heads through the fence to get the hay. After relocating it with the tractor it still moved, so he jumped out of his seat and started recording. It turned out that Jax, the 7-month-old bull calf had jumped […]
