[AT] Hey Ralph!

[charlie hill]

The frost line here is published at 8" but I don' remember the ground 
freezing that
deep since I was a boy, more than half a century ago.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 6:04 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!

Rare for the ground to freeze real deep here. Often times it will over
night, but thaw on top by mid-morning. I guess the fields were fairly flat
or he would have had trouble with the picker dog-tracking?

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: Don
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 9:57 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!

On 11/20/2015 8:18 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ralph,  is there any chance that just after the freeze up you can get in
> the field and harvest it before it gets snow covered?

Sometime in the mid 50s we had a very wet fall so could not get in to
pick the corn.  This was before combine shellers, we used a two row
picker and stored corn in a crib.   My uncle made skids out of old dozer
blades and when the ground froze enough we used his D4 to pull the corn
picker.  It was not many years later we bought a picker sheller.

A huge corn crib we built was still standing when we visited the farm
last summer.

-- 
Don Bowen       --AD0NB--

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