[AT] Culverts

[charlie hill]

John,  down the road about 3 miles from us was a guy who was a pretty good 
farmer but he was a mess at taking care of his life.  Kind of a ne'r do well 
type with a house full of children.
His youngest son told me this story years later.  One year the guy had a 
fantastic tobacco crop and by the time he took his upper stalk tobacco to 
the market he had already paid off his
years debt.  When he sold his tips he got his money, went to the Ford dealer 
and bought a new pickup and paid cash for it.  Then he went to the appliance 
store and bought his wife a fancy
new washing machine she'd been wanting.  Then on his way out of town he 
stopped at the liquor and bought a fifth and headed for home.    The closer 
he got to home the more he sampled the
whiskey.   There is a sharp curve about 1/4 mile from where they lived. 
When he took that curve he wiped out, totaled the truck and the washing 
machine and walked on to the house.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 9:14 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts

Dad has told me before that he would cash the checks after carrying a load
of tobacco out of town before he left that town so the banks back here
wouldn't give him any trouble. Back in the 50's he would haul loads that had
5-6 tenants tobacco on the truck. He would not put the money in his wallet,
generally in a buttoned shirt pocket or hid in the truck. I doubt that would
have helped much, it would have been quite obvious what you were up to when
you left the bank and climbed in a big old farm truck with a bunch of sack
sheets in the back.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts


> David,  my father used to tell me about going with his dad to sell tobacco
> in Greenville, NC.  It was about 25 or 30 miles.  They went by horse or
> mule
> drawn wagon.  It took the whole day to
> get there and unload.  The next day they sold the tobacco on the auction
> and
> got paid in cash.  He said they always went armed with a shotgun because
> there were bandits on the road.  This would
> have been in the 1920 to 1930 era.
>
> Pretty much the same story as yours except location and being armed.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:32 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts
>
> We are losing those local expressions for better or worse.
>
> My grandpa used to tell me of driving a horse drawn wagon to the tobacco
> market - one day done, the market and one day back.  These days I can
> follow the same route in half an hour (and come close by Spencer's).
>
> In those day this area was very isolated.  Today in 15 minutes I can be
> at Hanes Mall Blvd.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
>
>
>
> On 3/25/2012 8:02 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> David and I live pretty close, but I haven't heard trunk.   Not yet
>> anyway!  I will say that around here culvert often seems to refer to the
>> whole drainage project, the "pipe" is a tile.  Like:  "They put a new
>> tile
>> in the culvert".
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
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