Re: the homestead.

Posted by rustred on January 15, 2021 at 18:01:03 from (74.214.153.210):

In Reply to: Re: the homestead. posted by bc on January 15, 2021 at 17:17:27:

they had two quarters of land they cleared. dad and his brother. they used dynamite to blow the stumps out of the ground. dad's brother had
an accident as he thought the dynamite went out and ran over to check it and it blew up . he lost one eye. they worked farming during the
summer and worked in lumber camps during the winters. dad was a tree faller for over 30 years. yes they worked hard all there life. out of
the 5 kids the grand parents had only 2 left. my aunt is 80 and uncle be 90 soon. he says he is like a cat cause he has had 8 strokes so far.
but he is doing good and very spry and still gets around. also these guys had to walk to school about 2 1/2 miles each way morning and
night. the crops were cut with a john deere binder and the used the thrashing machine , plus did thrashing and stooking for the neighbors.mother used to cook for the thrashing crew start early in morning and they had coffee and lunch at 10 am , dinner at noon, another lunch at 3:30 then a late supper . us kids used to have races with our pedal bikes on the tractor trails from the machine to the field where the stooks where. us kids used to tobagan off the top of the straw piles in the winter. also it was used as cattle and pig shelter. the cows would make tunnels right through the pile. i also remember in the fall the old straw pile would get burned if a frost was coming.i
can even remember the snow drifts over the truck on sides of the road. them old caterpillar graders id the job. nowadays hardly see them on
the road and the county is always trading them in for new every couple years. i said what the heck you need new graders, when those dont get
hardly used. we dont have much snow now, maybe 4-5 inches. usually a couple feet. yes i know tomahawk, couple hrs away.

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