Incredible, lot of hard work in cold weather to avert a much bigger disaster, funny how today, when a foot of snow is predicted or on the horizon, the news treats it like doomsday.
When I was a young child, we had some heavy snows and or blizzards. One of these events and I am trying to place the years, late 60's, or '70, '71 we had 3 feet or better, it was a memorable event, that many should recall. My father was called upon by the town to open the state road with the D7 caterpillar, we used to have a 30'+ rock cut, shear walls on each side, it was plugged with snow, drifted in, and it was several hundred feet long, he had to punch a hole through it, the road was closed and all state and town equipment was scuttled, there was nothing available to open the road, it was either stuck, too far away or overwhelmed by the amount of snow. Bitter cold but with a gasoline starting engine, give er enough time and that diesel will run, he must have had some winter blend, we used to have our own tanks. I found a receipt and or bill for this, one of which I cannot find now, and he was paid $60.00 for doing this, from what he told me he went 2 miles to where the state or town could connect it was that deep.
That was some interesting film, when I heard balers mentioned, then it made sense, lot of old roto balers, helped save the day for sure !
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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