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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 1469756" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>I once worked on a farm that was owned by a man who also owned a nationwide trucking company.</p><p>We raised purebred angus on the farm in Virginia. He also had a large land holding in North Carolina with a large commercial herd.</p><p>Every year we got several hundred feeder cattle from Carolina and from Carolina we also got truckloads of corn to support feeding the cattle to finish and slaughter weights. We fed them out and marketed....I dunno why they shipped it all to us instead of doing it in Carolina but mine was not to reason why .....mine was but to do and die....</p><p>The corn came to us in regular freight box trailers from the trucking company....I have no idea how it was loaded but it came to us in a freight box trailer about four feet deep in corn. scale weights were a factor.</p><p></p><p>To unload it we had about a four foot square piece of heavy plywood with old fashioned plow handles bolted to the back. One man would go in the trailer and take a bite of the pile and another on a tractor would pull the bite to the door into an auger hopper....this process continued until the truck was empty and then we had to sweep it out....dusty nasty work for the man in the trailer....we would get enough trailers to fill the considerable storage bins we had at the mill.</p><p></p><p>we liked to get them as close together as possible because whoever had the inside the truck job was going to be sick with a nasty head and chest cold for about a week....our simple laymans philosophy was lets get em all done and be sick one time rather than numerous times throughout the feeding season....we took turns in the truck as it was tough duty so we all got sick at the same time...and working the farm we worked sick or well...</p><p></p><p>eventually the Carolina farm was sold and we kept 200 heifers to establish a commercial herd at the home farm and increased our own corn production...</p><p></p><p>We celebrated the fact that the hated unloading job was over....we burned the plow horse skidder device.</p><p></p><p>Today an employer would probably be jailed for asking people to work in those conditions....It was just part of the job back then...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 1469756, member: 6543"] I once worked on a farm that was owned by a man who also owned a nationwide trucking company. We raised purebred angus on the farm in Virginia. He also had a large land holding in North Carolina with a large commercial herd. Every year we got several hundred feeder cattle from Carolina and from Carolina we also got truckloads of corn to support feeding the cattle to finish and slaughter weights. We fed them out and marketed....I dunno why they shipped it all to us instead of doing it in Carolina but mine was not to reason why .....mine was but to do and die.... The corn came to us in regular freight box trailers from the trucking company....I have no idea how it was loaded but it came to us in a freight box trailer about four feet deep in corn. scale weights were a factor. To unload it we had about a four foot square piece of heavy plywood with old fashioned plow handles bolted to the back. One man would go in the trailer and take a bite of the pile and another on a tractor would pull the bite to the door into an auger hopper....this process continued until the truck was empty and then we had to sweep it out....dusty nasty work for the man in the trailer....we would get enough trailers to fill the considerable storage bins we had at the mill. we liked to get them as close together as possible because whoever had the inside the truck job was going to be sick with a nasty head and chest cold for about a week....our simple laymans philosophy was lets get em all done and be sick one time rather than numerous times throughout the feeding season....we took turns in the truck as it was tough duty so we all got sick at the same time...and working the farm we worked sick or well... eventually the Carolina farm was sold and we kept 200 heifers to establish a commercial herd at the home farm and increased our own corn production... We celebrated the fact that the hated unloading job was over....we burned the plow horse skidder device. Today an employer would probably be jailed for asking people to work in those conditions....It was just part of the job back then... [/QUOTE]
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