Anyone remember these days?
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bigbull338
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those days was long hot an backbreaking.
Susie David
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I remember gathering the wheat shocks with the team and wagon and driving them to the thrashing machine. Belt driven off the tractor pulley. One machine in the area and all the neighbors would be
there helping, was related to most of them but that didn't get explained until years later. I was just a little guy and could barely lift the fork with a couple of sheaves on it and Uncle John would let me drive the team, I would just hold the reins Jack & Nellie knew more about where to go
than I did, but there is nothing like it in my memory.
Dave Mc
there helping, was related to most of them but that didn't get explained until years later. I was just a little guy and could barely lift the fork with a couple of sheaves on it and Uncle John would let me drive the team, I would just hold the reins Jack & Nellie knew more about where to go
than I did, but there is nothing like it in my memory.
Dave Mc
VanC
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Susie David":nml93t6i said:
I remember much the same thing except it was oats instead of wheat and no team of horses. All the neighbors would get together and go from farm to farm getting the oats in. When the work was done there was a huge feast for all. Last year of this would have been 1965. My uncle had someone combine his oats in '66 and then bought an old pull-type Gleaner in '67. I do remember him using horses to skid logs when I was very young, probably about that same time.
hillrancher
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Yes; I remember and have plowed with a team and a walking 19 Oliver turning plow. This was the more elite if you had a 3 or 4 hitch and could ride. We replaced the team with a 9n Ford tractor. Was that a step forward.
Worked a team with a Slip/Fresno one summer building a dam in the riverbottom. It was a real character building experience. It was also made much more interesting by the fact that both horses had the heaves and farted nonstop for two weeks, Made me appreciate the stories my Dad told me about running a cultivator behind a team, or about my Grandpa rupturing himself plowing with a team back in the 30's.
Caustic Burno
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Wewild":27jecmay said:
Got my granddad's single tree, horse collar, and plow in the barn as well also have his old push plow.
novatech
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My grandfather had a tractor for the fields, single row JD But in the garden he plowed with the horse. I guess it was his job to baby sit me. He stuck me on top of the horse for the day. As things progressed the single row when to the garden and a larger tractor went to the fields.
What is interesting is how he raised a large family in a little bitty house on just a hundred acres. All of the plowing was with a horse. Look what we need to have today to just raise a small family. But I sure enjoy being spoiled.
What is interesting is how he raised a large family in a little bitty house on just a hundred acres. All of the plowing was with a horse. Look what we need to have today to just raise a small family. But I sure enjoy being spoiled.
Calman
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Have plowed garden's and skidded logs with a team. But I do like the way we do it now a lot better.
Cal
Cal
I remember watching my grandfather and his brother plow his garden with his mule. I also remeber when my grandfather added a bathroom and remodeled the kitchen to add running water to the house. No more cold trips to the outhouse. Still had to draw water from the well for cooking for years. My grandmother said the water out of the tap tasted funny and only used it for washing and bathing. :D
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When I was a little shaver and walked behind a team, they were mules and not horses and the furrow was a whole lot straighter then in this pic.
And I can still remember the commands to this day.
Gidup = walk
Plow = plow going in ground
Straighten it out = straighten the furrow
Plow down = plow coming out of the ground and laid on it’s side
Woooow = stop and rest
Believe me to work with a team is a real art but a well trained team can make it so easy that even a seven year old can do it.
Oh those sweet memories, but an old Farmall with steel wheels is even sweeter, except you couldn’t blame the snake like furrow on anyone but yourself.
SL
I sure do remember those days but I just didn’t want to be the first to say so and admit my age.
When I was a little shaver and walked behind a team, they were mules and not horses and the furrow was a whole lot straighter then in this pic.
And I can still remember the commands to this day.
Gidup = walk
Plow = plow going in ground
Straighten it out = straighten the furrow
Plow down = plow coming out of the ground and laid on it’s side
Woooow = stop and rest
Believe me to work with a team is a real art but a well trained team can make it so easy that even a seven year old can do it.
Oh those sweet memories, but an old Farmall with steel wheels is even sweeter, except you couldn’t blame the snake like furrow on anyone but yourself.
SL
Caustic Burno
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spoon":2zdjwb6e said:
gee was right haw was left
MoGal
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We had a shetland pony, Rusty, and a double shovel to plow a one acre garden with and he did that every year.
It was about the only time you could ride him afterwards and he wasn' ornery. I was 13, before I got a horse and I rode that poor old girl about 20 miles every day. Dad had to shoe her every 2 weeks because I'd wear out a set of shoes.
It was about the only time you could ride him afterwards and he wasn' ornery. I was 13, before I got a horse and I rode that poor old girl about 20 miles every day. Dad had to shoe her every 2 weeks because I'd wear out a set of shoes.
