Posted by Notjustair on December 22, 2014 at 09:57:09 from (70.195.19.80):
All of the talk about plowing and terracing made me think of all of the things I didn't know existed growing up. What things were foreign to you growing up on the farm?
I had never heard of a combine with a spike cylinder on it. We only had rasp bars. I had never seen anyone pull a disk without a packer behind it. I didn't know that you could put calves in the chute to band them (that always led to bruises that made you look like you lived in a torture chamber). I never heard of a year where you didn't pull at least a dozen calves. High birth weight bulls were the way to go. Of course there wasn't any option for feeding sileage other than forking it by hand into the pickup everyday. I thought everyone's grain auger required you to wrap the rope around the pulley and pull and hope. I didn't know that Farmall tractors could be had with a muffler or fenders. I thought everyone had to drive to the elevator at 30 miles an hour so they didn't lose any wheat off the truck. I thought everyone cut metal by turning up the juice on their Lincoln welder. I thought everyone else parked their machinery far from the shade trees to fix it. I thought everyone only used anhydrous to fertilize (but lots did then). I thought everyone plowed deep and hard every year. I didn't know anyone who had air conditioning in their pickup or who left it turned on when they drove the car through town. I thought everyone turned off the a/c every night and let the pig pen breeze blow through the house. I thought everyone had an unheated upstairs bedroom. I thought everyone ran around their house unplugging everything when they saw storm clouds. I thought everyone else's mother wouldn't let them run near the walnut trees because she knew some kid who fell and hit his head on one and died. I thought elevators would always have good "give aways". Not just hats - big spoons and the like.
I'm sure there are other things that I will recall when I see posts.
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