[AT] Harvesting questions...

[Larry Goss]

Humm.  Bruce, I think I remember 8 sheaves to the shock -- one in the center, 6 around the outside, and one spread out across the top to keep out the rain.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Waugh Elgin, Illinois USA" <gwaugh at wowway.com>
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008 16:19
Subject: Re: [AT] Harvesting questions...
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> I had the experience of using a team to haul bales in the field 
> of a 
> cousin's grandfather---well, as a 16 yr old, it was my joy to 
> throw 
> bales onto the wagon! (That was a promotion; I was usually stuck 
> up in 
> the barn!!) His fields were hilly & small enough that we didn't 
> tow a 
> wagon behind the baler. 
> 
> I was never around any shocking, however---I don't know how old 
> my 
> grandfather's 5 ft Oliver (I'm 99% sure of Oliver) combine was 
> an o-l-d 
> one!  Old enough to be replaced in the latter 50s.  
> Never had the joy of 
> working with loose hay, either!!
> 
> Gene
> 
> Bruce Moden wrote:
> > Gene,
> >
> > I'm a few years older than you, but like you I was a "migrant 
> farm worker" (I migrated from Buffalo, where I lived to the 
> farms of Chataqua County -40 miles away).  I worked farms 
> from 1946 to 1952 (and then later in life on my own farm) 
> picking, hoeing, laying irrigation pipe, haying, etc. on farms 
> of relatives & thier friends, most farms small (100 plus acres) 
> by today's standards.
> > But I do remember haying behind a team of horses and to 
> address your "small grain" question, I worked in fields where 
> the grain was cut & bound into "shocks" & we would go through 
> the field & stack the shocks in (I think) stacks of 6 -standing 
> up so the grain would dry.  These would be collected (by 
> hand) on a hay wagon & taken up to the house & barn area where 
> on 1 day the thrasher would come with a bunch of neighbors & 
> thrash the grain.  This is a process that is generally 
> reproduced a antique farm days in most fram communities every summer.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 11/2/08, Gene Waugh Elgin, Illinois USA 
> <gwaugh at wowway.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: G
> 
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