I remember as a teenager and pre-teenager cutting corn with a corn binder, then putting it into shocks. After it dried, we loaded it onto hay racks and hauled it to the farmstead to be chopped in a Letz grinder.
Also cutting wheat with a binder, shocking it, then hauling it on a hayrack to the threshing machine. I can still remember on my grandfather's farm when the thresher was run with a steam engine.
Digging post holes by hand, cutting firewood with an axe, two man crosscut saw, and a buzz saw. No chain saws. And firewood was a necessity, not an option or luxury.
It WAS a harder life back then. But a lot of it was a group effort. A half dozen men would cut firewood together, then divvy it up so everyone had enough for the winter.
Corn was picked as ear corn, then shelled with a sheller. Shelling corn was also a group effort. When one farmer shelled his corn, all the neighbors showed up and pitched in.
Hard a life as it was, I think there was much more camaraderie back then and much less competition.
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