[AT] What you want to do - was RE: McCormick plow

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Too funny Charlie! I had to explain it a couple times to my sister last year 
that the girls never did the work I did. Hard to believe she's 50 years old 
and just getting that. I think I finally got it through to her that girls 
and old men went to deliver tobacco and grain. Able bodied young men were 
needed to do manual labor. I was grown and delivering my own  grain before I 
ever went to an elevator. We started earlier and stayed later. If it was 
hotter or stormier then we were still at it working, not at the house. We 
worked alone in remote places.  Don't mean to sound sexist, that's just the 
way it was. Personally I'm all for the ladies helping out on the farm, but 
unless she is an exception to the rule and really wants to or can, some work 
is for the menfolk. I know a few ladies that worked as long as the men, but 
that was a matter of survival for the family and was many decades ago. There 
might still be in some isolated cases, but not like what it was.

John

-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 2:30 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] What you want to do - was RE: McCormick plow
To this day my sister swears she put in as much work on the farm as I did.
grins.  She worked the same
hours as the hired help.  Well, I'll take that back.  She did usually help
us take the dried tobacco out of the barn
but she stood outside in the cool morning breeze and passed the sticks of
cured leaves to my dad to load
on the truck or trailer.

Charlie