A folded field cultivator toppled a power pole in southern Saline County Monday afternoon.
Saline County Sheriff's Captain Jim Hughes said this morning that a farmer was pulling a folded Great Plains 8560 field cultivator with an eight-wheel Case/IH Steiger 400 HD tractor in the 2400 block of W. Falun Road when the cultivator either snagged the power line or clipped the pole, causing it to snap.
A crew from DSO Electric Cooperative repaired the line.
Hughes said that with the warmer weather, farm equipment and trucks are becoming more prevalent on county roads and soon wheat harvest will begin, adding additional grain trucks and combines to the mix. He encouraged motorists to give farm machinery and vehicles room when they encounter them on the roadways.