[AT] IH square baler questions

[charliehill]

well I didn't see him do it but I suspect it might have been needed. 
However; I don't think he would have used a tobacco leaf and I suspect 
you've never been around green tobacco.  Using a tobacco leaf for that 
purpose would be similar to using fly paper.  grins

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fink Sr" <nancydick at pennswoods.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] IH square baler questions


> 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
>
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