[AT] History Exam, now kid memories

[John Hall]

Not a problem. Most of the farms down that way are long gone. Same as over 
toward RTP. Even the dealership dad worked for is now a Merita Bread 
distribution center.

John Hall

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> Afraid not, as a 12 yr old all I was interested in was driving .. I don't
> ever remember even getting new or spare parts
>
> Paul Waugh
>
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> Must be all true because you had to live that life to be able to tell it!
> Thank goodness for bulk barns is all I can say! By the time I came along
> school didn't close but you could get excused for working on the family
> farm. I doubt that is permissible any longer.
>
> Out of curiosity, do you know the name of the IH dealership or what town 
> it
>
> was in? The one dad worked for had a lot of customers down around Apex.
>
> John Hall
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:21 PM
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>
>>
>>
>> I lived outside of Raleigh, near Apex, (Apex now swallowed up) .. worked
>> on
>> a dairy farm, peaches and tobacco, everyone worked tobacco. This was when
>> I
>> was 12-15 years old .. Super A's did every thing, plow, cultivate, manure
>> ..
>> just a lot of hours spent in the top of a tobacco barn at 3:00 in the
>> morning unloading it, my legs spread as wide as they would go .. of 
>> course
>> during the next few days, we loaded the barn back up, my longest day was
>> 22
>> hrs, but 18 was normal, heck school CLOSED at planting season. And yeah,
>> RC
>> cola and peanuts was a big treat. We had 80 acres of pasture which I
>> 'clipped' with a 4 ft sickle bar mower on a cub .. that took the better
>> part
>> of a week.  Can you imagine sending a 12 year old 1/2 mile from home with
>> a
>> tractor and sickle bar mower .. in this day and age .. I don't know who
>> would arrest you but some one would.  I carried my own anvil and spare
>> parts, it took too long to come to the house for repairs.
>> At 16 moved back to Indiana, IH M with 2-16, that was about all it would
>> handle on a regular basis.  That muffler definitely turned red at dusk.
>> One
>> afternoon I got the bright idea that it would sound good with out a
>> muffler,
>> that damn tractor roared all night long.  Our neighbor used JD A.  I 
>> would
>> shut mine down just to listen to him pull through a clay hill side ..
>> never
>> die, just a long time between pops.  After the planting was done the IH=H
>> with 2 row cultivators' became 'mine' for the next month or so .. 40 
>> acres
>> in a day with 2 rows, is a long big day.
>>
>> Paul Waugh
>>
>>
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