[AT] Farm show observations/ Farm Memories

[charliehill]

Well as tobacco farming jobs go, resetting really isn't a bad one. 
Depending on the weather.  It's always good to do it after a rain if you can 
but those days are often cold.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Farm show observations/ Farm Memories


>I remember "pegging" a field after a rain.  I was small "helping"
> grandpa and grandma (so I had to be younger than 8), barefoot and
> squishing the mud between my toes and loving every minute.
> One advantage here was with the clay soil after the rain the bucket of
> water isn't needed.  Funny what you think is great fun when that age.
>
> We had a couple of the hand transplanters but I don't remember them ever
> being used.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> charliehill wrote:
>> I think the other birds you spoke of are Cattle Egrets.  Did they have 
>> just
>> one little patch of light brown under their neck maybe?
>>
>> Oh yeah we had a two man "setter".  Another brand was Bemmis.  My dad was
>> 6'6 and he had to modify one seat on the transplanter so he could fit in 
>> it
>> to "drop".  That is one job I never did was drop plants.  I don't know 
>> just
>> why except that my dad was very particular that it got done just right 
>> and
>> usually he and one of his farmer friends would do it together on each 
>> others
>> farms.
>>
>> Yep, we used real wooden pegs.  You take a 5 gal bucket full of plants,
>> another 5 gal bucket full of water and a peg and walk the rows looking 
>> for
>> "skips" or plants that died.  Somefolks used those big ole hand
>> transplanters that looked like the Tin Man's Leg.  I hated those things 
>> and
>> we didn't have any of them.
>>
>> Charlie
>
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