Chris Jones said: (quoted from post at 10:53:21 12/11/14) Anyone else struck by how it's always a guy sitting on his ars driving the tractor and women doing all the repetitive and tiring work on the implement? And we dare refer to them as the weaker sax (correct spelling will not allow me to post--something about keeping a clean site). Some of them standing on those implement are clearly one slip away from being badly injured. Just jumps out at me. In dresses of course. :)
I remember as a kid driving the tractor while my grandpa walked behind working a horse drawn plow digging potatoes. I couldn't have handled the plow but could drive the tractor and he could work the plow and yell left, right, stop, etc. at the same time. :)
Gotta put it in the perspective of the day Chris. 39-45 was a bad time to be British. The men were all gone to war, all you had was old men ( who were probably working as the Home Guard too), boys and women. Women back then were not machine operators prior to the war, they didn't drive and mechanized farming in Britain just wasn't that common according to the documentaries I've seen, like "The Wartime Farm". The British gov't purchased huge numbers of modern tractors and power implements and produced something like 90% of the food Britain the island needed.. The horses went to war too and there just weren't enough of them, plus the gov't wiped out vast numbers of livestock and turned the pastures and hay land to grain production. They had to or they'd have starved since imported food was near non-existent. It figures women would be doing the repetitive, non-skilled work since they probably came right out of the kitchen or maybe even off the streets of London or other major cities as part of the "Land Girl" program. Watch "The Wartime Farm" and see what those folks went through. It didn't matter how much money you had, you simply couldn't buy what you wanted, not legally anyway. And the rationing system continued until somewhere around 1955 IIRC. Why? Because Britain was doing it's best to feed most of Europe too. While Britain had it bad, places like France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy and many other areas had it lots worse. They had no one to work, no equipment to work with, lands that were torn to shreds, little livestock, no distribution networks, etc. That's all part of the reason the US prospered so after the war.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 05:04:01 12/12/14.
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