[AT] History Exam, now kid memories

[charlie hill]

John,  you haven't lived until you have "filled out" the last "room" of a 
stick barn on a rainy day.  It requires that you go to the top, hang the 
last stick in the corner, come down one set of poles and do the same until 
you are out the bottom.  All of the time your  face is stuck in wet tobacco 
leaves.  The juice burns your eyes like acid.

Going to the opposite extreme.  Try climbing back up to that same top tier 
corner when the barn is running at high heat (160 to 175 degrees for those 
not familiar with curing tobacco) to feel the stems of the tobacco leaves to 
see if they are "killed out" (dried) yet.  The humidity in the barn at that 
temp. late in the curing stage is in the single digits and sand is falling 
out of the leaves into your eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and down your clothes 
into any other hole or crack it can find.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories


> 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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> From: "Paul" <pwaugh at mchsi.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories
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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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