My son plays for one of the UAJBA baseball teams and we are looking for a flatbed to carry all the age groups on one truck in the parade. If anyone knows of any contact I would really appreciate it. My contact from last year for our reunion is not doing it this year. Thanks, and Happy 4th!
If needed next year, no flatbed truck, but lots of haywagons
July 4 2008, 8:43 AM
Hello!
Our phone# is (740)524-2612. I am Tricia Nagode-Shively, from the class of '84. My husband Bill and I are black angus beef, wheat and straw, hay, soybean and corn farmers in Sunbury, Ohio (easy access to I-71)exit 36-37 - one exit N. of Polaris.
This won't do you any good today on the 4th of July as I am on here for the parade time and saw this now, but for next year it may help someone. Although we don't have a flatbed truck that is decent enough for a parade,(and the insurance covers it only for a 25mi radius of the farm for farm use anyway), we do have some flatbed haywagons (with no sides) that would serve well for the base for a float. They are pulled with a simple straight hitch pin device for a truck or car. Most people would need a ball pin for hooking up a boat, camper and so on but a lot of these kinds of pins on vehicles will be interchangable units as you get a different pin. Our interchangeable straight hitch pin may fit a truck you would have if you had a interchangeable ball pin on it. Can't remember the exact diameter of the pin we have to know if it would fit - I would need to look.
Sometimes we would be using the wagons now for hay baling (we often work baling hay or some other needed thing on the 4th of July - no rest for us!), so we may only be able to spare one at that time if that would be the case, as we would be using them but if not baling, we could spare them. Some beds connect to others to making it possible to then connect two together depending which ones we have at the time. We have straw and hay bales for seats or props that you can borrow too. Sorry did not see sooner. Hope you worked out something for them!
P.S.
If anyone reading this wants beef, We have a small business selling black angus beef to the public - halves and wholes. They are hormone - free and are fed our corn and molasses mix and hay. We usually only feed out around 40 cattle during the year so ordering months in advance of when you would need them is a good idea.
We have them 300lb in Nov. and so then, ready to sell in July - Oct. normally. Sometimes before July. At this time, we have about 15left to sell or they do go to Producer's instead as they get ready to go. The ones not sold as of yet are not ready now, but will be in mid Aug.-end of Sept. so ordering them 1 1/2 mo. before then is a good time to get a date for processing them as it sometimes takes that long to get a date at any meat processor.
They are butchered reguarly, for the most part, on Rte. 42 at Hoffman's just N. of Ashley in Cardington if you wanted to go for a nice country drive one day to pick yours up. He does a good job and has been in the business for a long time. (About 1 and 1/2hrs going up 23N from 270in Cols. to St.Rte.42N - (connection to 42N in Delaware off Williams St. exit off of 23 - turn R at light and then L at next light to get to 42N). When we deliver it to Hoffman's, he will cut it per instruction from you. We also process at Perfect's in Johnstown for those who may live around there. Their processing fee is slightly higher(7-10cents more/lb usually), but I think it is worth it as they do a spectacular job. I prefer them at times even.
Our price at this time is $1.90/per hundred lb hanging weight (that's without head, hide, and hoofs) plus the processing price from Hoffman's (.51/lb at this time). So, total $2.41/lb. Out of that you can pick how many ribeyes,roasts, filets and strips and or porterhouses and T-bones, etc. you want out of it and how much you want leftover for hamburger. (The hamburger is very good). We can help you with what cuts can be had.
Each steer or heifer is usually somewhere around 600-700lb for a whole and 300-350lb avg for a half. This can vary from 50-100 lbs either direction depending on what animals go in. We will try to pick ones for you on the larger or smaller side based on what we have. Dates for processing are available about every two months from the time you are ordering to when you can pick it up.
Sharing a whole between two families is possible as you can instruct orders for two separate 1/2's to be cut two separate ways. Same with a half. You can give orders to Hoffman for the half to be cut differently (or in the same way) as two separate quarters. If you give us the names you want on your beef when ordering, then we will tell Hoffman those persons will be calling him with their instructions.
The beef is ready to pick up about 1 week after going in and he can hold it until you can pick it up.
Our phone# at the farm is (740) 524-2612.
Our e-mail is www.ShivelyFarms@verizon.net
Thank you and Happy 4th of July!
Trish, Bill, Cindy and James
Yes, It is me. I did go to Cranbrook Elementary. I thought that was you! How are you!? Been in any snowball fights lately? I now live in Sunbury, OH., 20min E. of Delaware. I married a Bill Shively there 2 yrs ago. but we have been together almost four years. We were married Sept. 30th almost 2yrs ago in a 90ft by 120ft cornfield, 300yds into the field that we made as we were planting earlier that year. It was so neat! Are you married and do you have any children? I have 2 children, Cindy (almost 12) and Jimmy (or James, as he likes to be called now), is 13 from a marriage to their father that did not work out. I am a farmer now! I disc the fields, plant wheat and soybeans (Bill plants the corn), and bale 3 cuttings of timothy/alfalfa hay each year and some straw from the wheat every spring. I fix and maintain tractors and balers and planters, etc. and go to auctions in blizzard conditions all winter! I have a little part time go nowhere job in addition to have ends meet and vacation money (we love vacation!) and sometimes make buckeye necklaces for the OSU games and sell them down there. I haven't had time for that the last two years but I think I am going to give up my buckeye tree sources to the boy and girl scouts for them to raise money for their troop this year. If you know of any buckeye tree sources let me know! These trees have buckeyes one year and not another - you never know. We raise black angus beef for sale to the public also. We get them at 300-500 lb and fill them out to 1000-1300lb and usually about break even. They eat a lot but they are fun to raise. The kids each have 1 black angus market steer they are taking to the Delaware Co. fair this year. They are trying to get a handle on them now. If left too long without working on them (vacation for 3 weeks to the Dry Tortugas), they get ornery and will not be calmly handled again until you tie them up off and on for a few days and let them sit and stew awhile there as that breaks them and then try again. The past 2 years they took the smaller feeder calves - (dairy beef feeders - they are the dairy boy calves used for meat as mostly only females are needed in dairy business). The producers buy them at the fair with the market steers and heifers and just fill them out the rest of the way. I always wanted to farm. My grandpa Nagode has a farm in Montana (near the border of N. Dakota) in Wibaux. Our mailbox is actually in N. Dakota. It is dry there but there is 2,000 acres of cattle land and 1,500 crop land. My grandpa, who was 94 passed away 2yrs ago and now his children want to sell it. He always hoped someone would farm it and all the boys were the first choice of course! I, being the only girl in 6 boy cousins and 1 brother did not have much chance at it as no one could see a girl going out there on her own without a man. (I guess they never considered hiring one as appropriate for a young lady and that kind of thing - good grief!) So, now years (over two decades later), I may try to buy it and farm it as it is a good investment. The land is cheap as I would buy it at what it has been valued at forever and not at the high prices they have land valued at now. It doesn't go up or down in value any great significance in general - exept for this last year the land around there sold for much more than it is worth in my opinion, only because of the rallying over the fuel alternative sources. Bill has been farming all his life almost, so with a slight adjustment to climate it may be done fairly easily I think. My dad, Larry, is semi - retired at the OSU university. He still teaches Biochemistry to the first year graduates in the Vet College. His wife, Carole retired from there also as a Vet lab chemist. Now they are looking into where they will end up for retirement - they think Oregon or Calif. maybe. Both fun places for us to visit them! They still live in U.A. in the same house I went to school in on Helston Rd. Sorry I got this so late. I have been gone and since then, busy, but hopefully you'll see this sometime! Tell me what you've been up to!