[AT] The last question I had on my list for December.

[charliehill]

You've got that right!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] The last question I had on my list for December.


>A good friend of mine always said a pretty tobacco field was one where the
> only thing left was the stalks.  The prettiest tobacco field was one where
> the stalks had been disked up.  :)
>
> Al
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 12/31/2009 7:02:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] The last question I had on my list for December.
>>
>> I'll just give you a general classification of jobs.  I always liked the
>> fall work, picking corn and beans (although we hired that done) bush
> hogging
>> stalks in the fall. Cutting in the crop residue and planting cover crops.
>> It was kind of like the end of a long "day" when you were almost finished
> up
>> and headed home with your  rewards in your pocket.  The  spring work was
> the
>> beginning of a long hard day.  The only thing I ever enjoyed about
> tobacco
>> was working with the dry tobacco and cutting the danged stalks in the
> ground
>> at the end of the year.  Same thing I guess.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:24 AM
>> Subject: [AT] The last question I had on my list for December.
>>
>>
>> > Either as you were growing up or now, which tractor job did you like
>> > best and which the least?
>> > -
>> > I probably liked raking hay the best. We had a great Ferguson 3 point
>> > rake and you could go any direction and raise up and hop over windrows
>> > without messing up the pattern. Next I probably liked drilling small
>> > grain.
>> > -
>> > My least favorite was early cultivation when the corn was tiny and you
>> > had to drive at a mind numbing crawl... Next was anything in a huge
>> > dense cloud of dust.
>> >
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > Have you hugged your horses today?
>> >
>> > Francis Robinson
>> > aka "farmer"
>> > Central Indiana USA
>> > robinson46176 at gmail.com
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