[AT] Left or right combines?

[Gene Waugh]

Thanks Carl,

That's why I'm pretty sure my Granddaddy wasn't letting me do the tying.

I guess I'll have to do a google search for Millers knot.

Yep, Grandad used to tie the sacks off the hammer mill---I remember feeling
that I was getting the short end of the stick, shoveling grain into the
mill, but I am sure that was better than messing up a knot@@

Gene


Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Left or right combines?


> Charlie-
> A miller's knot isn't hard to tie, but it sure is hard to tie "right".  As

> a teen, we were past the time of having to bag oats on the combine where 
> you really had to be able to tie a miller's knot fast and tight.  But for 
> a few years before the vacuum trucks became common we would have to bag 
> oats every Saturday to take to the mill for feed.  Sometimes I got to do 
> it alone and it sure was critical to tie the knot right or somewheres 
> along the half a dozen times the bag would be handled before bing dumped 
> in the mill the bag would burst open and everyone would ask, "who tied 
> that sloppy knot?"
> Carl Gogol
> Manlius, NY