[AT] Horrible harvesting conditions.

[David Bruce]

My story is on a different scale.
As a youth I hired out to harvest tobacco for various local farmers 
(hard work, decent money for a summer job and plenty of work).
The worst day was late in the harvest season, just before school was to 
start so the farmer really needed to get the last of the crop in the 
barn before most of his help wasn't available. We spent most of a late 
August day slogging through mud in a total downpour.
That sort of thing doesn't happen here now with the change in the 
business.  Less labor used, most leaf is picked with harvesters and now 
you are more likely to see farmers riding the harvester the day before 
the first frost to finish up the harvest.

David
NW NC

John Hall wrote:
>  Idea for a new thread--whats the worst conditions you ever worked in to 
> harvest a crop. Hot, cold, wet, dry, dusty, storm damaged etc. I know there 
> are crop conditions that are not bad using modern equipment but with some of 
> the older stuff I am sure it was a challenge.
> 
> One that comes to my mind is picking corn after Hurricane Fran back in '96. 
> We hooked the picker to a Farmall Super-A. Since the tractor had an offset 
> design, we could hitch the picker over on the left side to keep the tractor 
> as far away from the tangled corn as possible. The corn was blown down to 
> just over knee high. We were only able to pick it in one direction.
> 
> John Hall