[AT] History Exam, now kid memories

[Clint D]

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> NO, I can't imagine anyone allowing a 12 year old to do that now.
>   
Or some 18 year olds
Clint
> Charlie
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> From: "Paul" <pwaugh at mchsi.com>
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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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