Clean without too many bare butts. Can't get any better than that.
I couldn't wait till Saturday during ear corn picking so I could drive a tractor all day hauling it in from the field. It didn't matter if it was cold and windy, I got to drive a TRACTOR!
Lots of memories! The most memorable? Me up in the crib holding a board at the end of the elevator spout shooting the corn out in the far corners when the crib was almost full. The old neighbor who helped us was unloading the wagon into the elevator and he was supposed to watch for me waving to him to stop when the corn got up to the spout. He never looked so I'd be waving frantically but he wouldn't look up to see me so I'd get down by the spout to frantically drag the corn out and kick it down farther . Then I'd go back up by the cupola door and wave again, but he'd never see me. I'd even throw ears down at him. But he kept on unloading. I'd try to slide the spout shorter so I could move it but it but it was too heavy and corn started dumping into the oats bin. Finally I'd go down the ladder, run out the alleyway and pull the clutch on the elevator tractor. After the crib was full it was MY job to pick all those ears out of the oats bin. GRR!
The speed jack that ran the elevator was run by a flat belt from the tractor so we would run the belt loose enough that it would throw off if the elevator began to plug if I couldn't get Down the ladder in time to stop the tractor. It was less work to leave the spout where it was and let it plug than it was to try to move it while corn was thumping down it and have to throw it back out of the oats bin if I dropped the spout.
Early on all of our ear corn was used for feed here on the farm and the cobs went to the cattle yard for bedding but when yields got better more of it was combined and hauled to town out of the field. When we figured in all the hassle of picking, cribbing, shelling, hauling to town from the sheller and cleaning up the mess, that free drying in the crib didn't add up.
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