Re: re; Wide front ends

Posted by Hugh MacKay on July 12, 2007 at 18:38:50 from (209.226.106.130):

In Reply to: Re: re; Wide front ends posted by Allan In NE on July 12, 2007 at 17:29:34:

Allan: Given the numbers of narrow fronts sold up until 1960 at least, could it be all the folks that bought them, be wrong. I can understand the 22" row and irrigation ditch, but east of Chiago we didn't know what the hell those were. Infact in the 45" annual rainfall area where I came from that would have been drainage or water run off ditch. We planted potatoes in 42" rows just to get enough loose soil to keep the 50,000 lb/acre crop covered.

I even had a neighbor, while he was at the local sawmill getting some lumber, overheard the mill owner and others braging about their great crop of potatoes. Next day he phoned the mill, asked the mill owner if he had any construction grade 4"x12"x12' lumber as he had broke the 2x12 he bought the day before. "What were you using it for", the mill owner asked. "Oh" said my neighbor, "I was just rolling one of my potatoes onto the cart."

Now, the old gentleman was known to tell a few tall tales. I knew him personally, yet he claimed he fought in the war of 1812. Got hit in the stomach by a cannon ball that drove him 14 miles, knocked the wind out of him, or so he claimed. He once encountered a wind that blew the horse mower across the field. It had been left in gear with cutter bar down, and it mowed a swath as it went. He was a well travelled man and claimed in Nebraska he cooked in a work camp, took a barrel of flour to thicken the gravey. I expect that was in the days when you pulled those sugar beets by hand.

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