[AT] Grain Augers--Long

Sun Jan 1 19:00:49 PST 2012

I remember Hal Moore, and don't forget Jim Woods-he was kind of an old curmudgeon too.  My parents liked WITN (NBC station) and I remember Dick Jones and Lee Kanipe over there.

I met John Spence when I was a state FFA officer.

Another fun fact: Emily Proctor, the blonde woman on CSI Miami (I guess she's still on the show, I got sort of burned out on it) graduated from ECU (I try not to hold it against her) and was a weather forecaster for Channel 9 for a while.

This thread had skidded way off from grain augers and Long Mfg. but I am enjoying it......

Al

-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 1, 2012 9:36 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--Long
>
>Slim Short,  Sherman Husted was the weather man,  Eck Wall was before John 
>Spence, Hal Moore an insurance man from Ayden was on there most of the time. 
>He is the father of John Moore who is on TV a lot around I doing commercials 
>and the Southern Sportsman show.  He is also a DJ.   There are some more of 
>those Carolina Today guys but the names escape me right now.  I don't   know 
>if you realize it
>but that was one of if not the first morning TV talk show before there was a 
>Good Morning America or Today show.  Oh yeah there was a crusty old man last 
>name Debnam on there who did a segment called Debnam Views the News which 
>was a combination news and opinion segment much like what Jesse Helms used 
>to do on WRAL in Raleigh.   There's still a couple more that I'll think of 
>sooner or later.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Al Jones
>Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 9:33 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--Long
>
>Charlie, that timing sounds like what I remember here.  Yes I have heard the 
>older ones say the worms would "eat it up" if it stayed in the field too 
>long.....
>
>At my grandparents' house, Channel 9 was revered.  They started their day 
>every morning with "Carolina Today" with Slim Short, and the other folks 
>(whose names I remember as good as mine but Can't right now!).  John Spence 
>was the farm reporter that I remember.  I do remember detailed reports on 
>the tobacco prices during the summer.  In the mid-80s my cousin got his 
>first job as the cooperative extension agent in Edgcombe county, and once in 
>a while John Spence would interview him for this or that for his farm 
>report.  That was BIG news at my grandparents when that happened!
>
>Channel 7 out of Washington reported on the tobacco markets, I want to say 
>Dick Jones did their farm report.  This would have been late 70's--early 
>80's.
>
>I also remember commercials on Channel 9 for Speight "Triple Crown" tobacco 
>seed!
>
>Al
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>>Sent: Jan 1, 2012 8:27 AM
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--Long
>>
>>Al,  if I remember right my dad wanted to have his tobacco "layed by" (last
>>plowing because of it's size) by the first of June and normally started to
>>harvest by the first week in July.  July 4th was NOT a holiday we often
>>celebrated!   The harvest typically took 6 weeks and the old guys would 
>>tell
>>you if you didn't have your crop out of the field by mid August "the worms
>>would eat it up".   Even though we had DDT and some other strong pesticides
>>back then,  tobacco worms and other bug pests seemed to be a worse problem
>>back then than they are now.  Maybe it's just because I'm not on the farm 
>>to
>>see it now.   I bet you don't remember when a guy named "Eck" Wall did a
>>daily tobacco report on channel 9.  He reported total sales volume in
>>Greenville and other surrounding market towns, the sales volume and average
>>sales price and he'd usually have a bunch (bundle) of tobacco from the
>>highest sale price pile in the Greenville market (that was in the days when
>>tobacco was still graded and tied in bunches with a wrapper leaf).  He had 
>>a
>>clothes line in the TV Studio and he'd say "and you can hang that one on 
>>the
>>line!" as he put the record sale price bundle over the line.  For those 
>>that
>>have never seen it, the bunch of leaves were separated apart in the middle
>>and put over the string with the stems, tied by the wrapper leaf, hanging
>>over the top of the line so that it sat there much like an old fashion
>>wooden clothes pin.  By the end of the season he'd have tobacco bunches 
>>half
>>way across the set on "the line".   Back then there were almost NO
>>industrial jobs in eastern NC.   The few industrial plants we had were
>>either tobacco processing or other farm related industries.   Tobacco was
>>KING and everyone knew it.   A tobacco farmer was respected as a community
>>leader much the same way as a small business owner is now.
>>
>>Charlie
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message----- 
>>From: Al Jones
>>Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:55 PM
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--Long
>>
>>Ones I remember were two-story, like a Silent Flame, pulled with a tractor.
>>Instead of chains the croppers put the hands of tobacco on a "ferris wheel"
>>(two per row?)which as it turned brought the tobacco up to the loopers on
>>the top "story" of the harvester. They took it off the ferris wheel and 
>>tied
>>it on the sticks.  I guess each wheel was at least 5-6' in diameter but 
>>it's
>>been a while.
>>
>>Yes I am an oddity. Most of my school friends hired out to farmers to earn
>>the money for their new clothes for school each year.  Many bought their
>>first car this way.  Meanwhile I was stuck home sloppin' hogs.
>>
>>It seems to me tobacco comes off real late here now.  Some didn't harvest
>>any until way into July.  Used to, it seemed like they had taken the lugs 
>>at
>>least by 4th of July.  Usually everyone was done or about done by Labor 
>>Day.
>>This year there was tobacco in the field until October.  I remember one 
>>year
>>in the 80s' there was talk of postponing opening school because the tobacco
>>was late but I think it fell through.
>>
>>I also remember the pageantry surrounding opening day of the tobacco 
>>market.
>>ALL the local news stations had reporters at the warehouses, especially our
>>local CBS station, based out of Greenville NC which was a huge tobacco
>>buying area, as well as Tarboro, Farmville, etc.  It's been a long
>>time...seems like the Eastern Belt usually opened around the end of July??
>>
>>Al
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>>>Sent: Dec 31, 2011 9:09 PM
>>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>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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