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I thought this thread was going to be about the first track you guys raced on.
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She said everyone banned together for barn space. As you know, tobacco is hard on the soil so small farms over rotated crops and had excess barn space. On hot, humid days, the big barn still smells like curing tobacco. Quote:
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I haven't seen a tobacco plant in probably 20 years. |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1627490303.jpg Then I see another big bird swoop down over the fence. This time a black vulture. They can't smell too well but have very keen eye sight. Plus they tend to be bullies. It was probably circling around way overhead and saw the other bird chowing down so came in to investigate. It pushed the turkey vulture aside and took over. I peeked over the fence to get this shot. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1627490303.jpg |
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Hot humid days the barn smells like curing tobacco still eh? So between April and September every year then |
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My grandfather had an allotment that he leased out to another farmer. He basically rented out the right to receive a government subsidy. |
I spent a few Summers in my youth helping out a local farmer with hay. I always seemed to get stuck in the loft stacking bales off the end of the hay elevator....extremely hot, and dusty, but satisfying to see the end result.
40 years later, I am still handling hay for our two horses, and two mini donkeys. We get about 400 bales a year, and can get most of them into our ventilated shipping container CONEX. With just my wife, and I working to haul, and stack, we get 100 bales at a time on my 18' car hauler trailer, spend a couple hours stacking, and then jump in the pool with a stiff drink. |
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Haying was hot, dirty work. Horse hay we grew wasn’t so bad, it was mostly timothy or broam grass. Alfalfa hay has leaves that come off or crumble into dust and get all over you, stick to your sweat, and itch. The hay mow would get up to over 100 degrees. That’s where I learned the value of an education. The town boys we hired were working their asses off pitching bales in the heat. But I knew how to drive a tractor. :cool: |
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The other day they were using the tedder that looked similar to this. https://cdn3.volusion.com/deqaj.ahge...ngTedder-2.jpg Today they are back with the rake. https://www.swdistributing.com/img/c...ake_caddy2.jpg which is leading the JD 535 baler https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mXwwmnviaEo/maxresdefault.jpg This country livin' stuff is educational! |
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When I was a kid, we got all our hay in the Central Valley of California: Three metal wire alfalfa. My Dad was too cheap to actually have the hay delivered so he made arrangements for us to pick the bales out of the field. We had two trucks and two horse trailers, enclosed, and off we'd go, three trips in a day...the Joad family circus. |
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The last few years back to 2003 are available, on line for free if you own mapping software needed to open the special format files (Mr. Sid files). The older stuff back to WW2 era is available from USGS if you pay for a scan. The really old stuff is only at the national archives. It is a real pain to get those, as we have to hire an archivist that has the license to go into the archives, and scan the negative and they all have low end off the shelf flat bed scanners, not the 70 grand and up photogrammetric scanners that are needed for a good scan. With the section, township and range of a farm I can make you an image of the farm from 2003 pretty cheap. The older ones get more expensive as we have to pay for the scans, but I can likely get a 1950s image of any farm for under $80. All because so many farmers were willing to cheat on free government money. |
I have spent a lot of time staking hay bales in the hay loft of dairy barns at farms belonging to various relatives in Wisconsin. Also some time on trailers/wagons following the baler. It was usually during "Vacation" but when you show up and expect to be fed and have a place to sleep, they tend to put you to work. :D Here is a photo of me going up the "elevator" into the loft on one occasion.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1627522881.jpg Speaking of working vacations, when my father-in-law a his cousins get together they reminisce about their visits to their grand parents farm in southern Virginia. The "reunions" always seemed to coincide with the tobacco harvest. They cut the leaves, loaded them on to sledges pulled by mules, tied the leaves to poles to hang in the tobacco barns to be dried, tending the fires that heated the tobacco barn...etc. The tobacco barn was really a log cabin with no windows and a fire place on the out side to heat the place for drying the leaves. However there was one job they all wanted. It was called dobbing. They would mix a bucket of mud and close themselves into a tobacco barn, before the leaves were hung up, which would be almost pitch black inside. Wherever they saw light coming in between the logs or roof shingles they would throw a glob of mud into the crack if it was out of reach or even if it was in reach, just for the challenge. |
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