Posted by Paul Janke on February 01, 2022 at 18:59:12 from (69.163.92.122):
In Reply to: Hard Labor On The Farm posted by aFORDable on February 01, 2022 at 12:35:34:
When I was ten years old we started a fence post business. We used lodgepole pine and treated the posts with pentachlorophenol. The work in the timber was the worst part, next worse was peeling using a homemade post peeler. Youtube has many videos of those machines. One brand name is Morbark. Treating (cold soak butt treat) which was putting posts in the tank and then soaking for 24 hours and then sizing and sorting was the easiest part. The season lasted from as soon as we could get around in the snow until bitter cold or too much snow. We also were ranching so feeding, calving, and so on meant there was very little time off. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years day were close to days off since feeding only took until about noon. By the time I was an adult the work became a lot less miserable to do. I ended up off the place at about 27 years of age. Pretty much everything after that was much easier in comparison.
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