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Have you ever picked pecans?
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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 790479" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>I went down to meet the boss lady's parents about 34 years back. Her dad asked me if I would go down to the barn and help him load a truck with pecan sacks. I said "sure" thinking it was a pick-up "truck". Got there and it was an empty 18 wheeler. There were hundreds of 130 lb burlap sacks of pecans. We would weigh 3 sacks at a time and then load them into the truck box. They were bringing 90 cents a pound back then. I calculated something close to $200K in that barn. The trucker finally said, "I am at the load limit." </p><p></p><p>There were "pecan shakers" that were huge out of balance wheels that shook trees. Pickers that picked them up along with sticks. They would dump them in a hopper. Pecans would roll down a conveyor. The sticks and trash did not roll and just had to be pulled off. At the end of the conveyor they were catching pecans in a sack and stitching the sacks up as fast as they could. </p><p></p><p>The wife's grandad would go into the barn, grab an old nail, get on the anvil and make a needle to sew up the sacks. Go figure. Thousands of dollars revenue and he'd make the needles instead of spending a few nickels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 790479, member: 3162"] I went down to meet the boss lady's parents about 34 years back. Her dad asked me if I would go down to the barn and help him load a truck with pecan sacks. I said "sure" thinking it was a pick-up "truck". Got there and it was an empty 18 wheeler. There were hundreds of 130 lb burlap sacks of pecans. We would weigh 3 sacks at a time and then load them into the truck box. They were bringing 90 cents a pound back then. I calculated something close to $200K in that barn. The trucker finally said, "I am at the load limit." There were "pecan shakers" that were huge out of balance wheels that shook trees. Pickers that picked them up along with sticks. They would dump them in a hopper. Pecans would roll down a conveyor. The sticks and trash did not roll and just had to be pulled off. At the end of the conveyor they were catching pecans in a sack and stitching the sacks up as fast as they could. The wife's grandad would go into the barn, grab an old nail, get on the anvil and make a needle to sew up the sacks. Go figure. Thousands of dollars revenue and he'd make the needles instead of spending a few nickels. [/QUOTE]
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