[AT] Flax Harvest

[Cecil Bearden]

Ralph:
I really enjoyed that !!
Is there anything that the flax straw can be used for.  I remember seeing a 
lady spinning flax into linen at the John Deere Historical museum.  Is there 
not a market for the straw?

Cecil in OKla

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Flax Harvest


> On 3/2/2011 5:30 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> good video.  That IH pickup was a top of the line pickup in it's day!  As
>> your dad was pushing that flax around and not ever having actually seen 
>> any
>> flax I was thinking, I bet that would make one heck of a fire and about 
>> that
>> time it got to the fire scene.  The old Cockshutt sounded good.  It 
>> sounded
>> almost like it was a hydrostatic drive with the whining sound.  Of course 
>> I
>> know it wasn't.   It still amazes me that you can cut crops and let them 
>> lay
>> on the ground for even days let alone weeks or months and have something
>> left to combine when you go back.  Around here the grain would sprout, 
>> rot
>> or mold before you ever got it up.
>>
>> Charlie
> Charlie, that is the characteristic Cockshutt gear whine you are
> hearing. As far as I know they all did it. Some could be heard for miles
> away, no engine sound, just the gear whine.
> Don't get me wrong, some years we will have problems with swaths
> sprouting if there is a lot of rain followed by heat . Any place the
> tractor has driven on the swath will just make it worse. Flax is pretty
> resilient as it sits up high in the stubble and wont' flatten out no
> matter how much rain falls on it.
> That old 50 and the B110 IH truck are both in my shed waiting for warmer
> weather to run.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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