[AT] Grain Augers--Long

[charlie hill]

John I remember the wood fired barns.  We had one when I was small but 
didn't use it much.  My dad used to talk about having to take turns with his 
dad and brothers firing the wood barns at night.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:09 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--Long

Okay AL, what's a ferris wheel harvester?

I am quite in shock you've never worked in tobacco. Normally you find folks
that have done that but never worked with grains or hay. It's not too late
you know---go loan yourself out for a 1/2 day next summer to a tobacco
farmer.

Tobacco up this way can get to running real late--in other words everyone
starts panicking frost will hit it before it is all pulled (that happened
quite a bit this year). In the mid '80's, daddy had a cousin that actually
cured a couple barns that were fired with wood. They used bulk barns and
only used stick barns for backup. This one year they needed to get it in and
were already running the kerosene and propane barns. I suspect it was about
as much as for old times sake as anything else.

John

-- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--Long


>
> John,
>
> I think grandaddy's barn may have used Vann burners too.  The barn still
> stood 'till hurricane fran in '96 but the equipment and so forth was long
> gone--he built a floor inside and stored shelled corn for his hogs in it.
>
> The last stick barn, that I know of, used in our neighborhood was in about
> '90 or '91. They had a "ferris wheel" harvester you pulled behind a
> tractor.  Was that a Davis?
>
> Al

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