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

[Cecil R Bearden]

Charlie:

That is what I think they all the farming work ethic.  When I go out on 
a consulting job, and I always get called in when things have gone 
wrong, I look for the guy who has to older truck and maybe has a little 
green manure still crusted on his boots.  That is the one who will be 
the most help to figure out a solution with the equipment on available.

I have to give my Dad the credit for teaching me how to really work.  
Also how to do things the easy way!!!

Cecil in OKla



On 9/6/2014 7:47 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Oh I agree John.  I'm no sexist.  I fully believe in women working.  LOL
> No you are right and my sister did work and she worked hard but she
> only remembers the days that she helped out.  She has no memory of
> the days that I sat on the tractor for 16 hours because she wasn't there.
> She was off doing girl stuff with my mom or her friends and she didn't
> even know there was any work going on.  Also, as far as the tobacco
> work, you are right.  The work the men did was just a lot harder work
> plus the farmer or the farmers son (me) was working long before and long
> after the others.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining.  My dad never
> wanted me to have to work hard like he did and if I hadn't been willing I
> wouldn't have had to do near as much as I did.  I wanted to do it but that
> doesn't mean it wasn't long, hard, tiring work.  I didn't want to do it
> because
> it was fun.  I wanted to do it because if I didn't my dad had to do it and
> it was
> easier for me than for him.
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 7:22 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] What you want to do - was RE: McCormick plow
>
> 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
>
>
>
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