The memories are still coming back, the first yr I worked the field as a chopper we had a sort of a hatchet you chopped the plant off close to the ground and handed it to a kid on the wagon just like the ones in the picture he would hang the plant upside down on a wooden lathe that was about 3 ft long and held about 6 or more plants on each side on sharp metal hooks. Once the wagon was full it went to the barn where kids would hang the lathes on tears, the highest tear in the barn was right up in the peak called the perl tear, the older kids got to hang perl tear each tear got more money.They heated the barns with gas heaters and would open the sides as neaded to ventilate.The farmers would come right into the school and set up a table and hire the kids, you needed to be 13 yrs old and get working papers signed by your parents. there would be several farms there so you had your choise Hass and Hathaway come to mind as two farms.Often when hanging plants on the lathes the metal hook would come loose I remember one young kid put a hook in his pocket when he sat down for lunch he drove the point right into his you no what the farmers wife had to take him to the Dr. BTW. Shade grown you harvest only the leaf and it was sown on to the lathes by the girls and hung up by the boys and usualy Jamaicans would work under the nets. I never did make perl tear only got up about 3 tears high as I recall. Thats my memories best as I can tell it and im stickin to it
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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