[AT] History Exam, now kid memories

Sun Jun 17 07:11:52 PDT 2007

You guys make me glad I gave up smoking many. many years ago. to think I
was not only saving my life but making life better for you guys.
Ron

>   always tell folks what adventure we lacked on climbing a stick barn we
> made up for in volume at bulk barns. Nothing like having a rack of ground
> primings get hung up in the tracks at the back of the barn and having to
> tote it out instead of slide it. Thanks goodness we had chain hoists to
> use
> when filling--some farmers were too cheap to use them.
>
> Pretty much I don't care what erea you worked in the stuff, the bottom
> line
> is it was WORK!
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories
>
>
>> 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"
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>> 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
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Paul" <pwaugh at mchsi.com>
>>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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