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NW Washington | When I was about 12 I got involved in using one of those hay forks to put peppermint into and remove from the cooking tubs. I drove a Farmall B that pulled the rope attached to the hay fork via some pulleys, back and forth and reaching the clutch and brake was a struggle. The mint still was one of the first to use cooking tubs mounted on wagons, but when the new stuff did not work they went back to the old method. A hay loader was used in the field to load the mint on to a hay wagon.
Now mint is all chopped in the field and cooked in the wagon.
I also got to do all the 1950's ear corn stuff, pull pickers, mounted pickers, stationery shellers, pull type 6' combines for soy beans, oats and wheat. Learned to plow with a DC Case and a rope trip 3 bottom plow.
Now equipment from that era looks like toys. | |
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What's the oldest thing you can remember doing on the farm?
