[AT] IH square baler questions

[Richard Fink Sr]

Charlie i would suppose he used a tobacco leaf to wipe off the you 
know what when it was all over.
R Fink



At 06:10 PM 12/22/2009 -0500, you wrote:
>Gene,  when I was still too young to pull (prime, crop, pick) tobacco I was
>driving the tractor (trucking) when one of the "primers" (men breaking the
>leaves) froze in his tracks and started to ..... I guess whimper is the word
>for it.  We all looked and he was standing straddle of a coiled up
>Cottonmouth.  The thing was just waiting for something to move so he'd know
>where to strike (for those that don't live around poisonous snakes, pit
>vipers are blind).  The other men went over near him, grabbed his arm and
>his belt and snatched him away from the snake.   Then they beat the snake to
>death with a tobacco stalk they pulled up and pulled the leaves off of.
>That poor fellow was shaking like a leaf but he didn't get bit.
>
>Charlie