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Posted by Crem on November 23, 2004 at 22:28:45 from (169.207.105.68):
In Reply to: Way OT: The shocking truth! posted by Rauville on November 23, 2004 at 08:37:30:
When we shocked oats in MN, we usually used seven bundles with the seventh one being the cap. If we had extra bundles in a row we would add two more at the outside center so that we wouldn't have to carry the extra's to the next row. We would then have nine bundles including the cap. I did a lot of shocking back in the late fifties. It could be very hot and miserable. When we loaded the bundles on the wagon for threshing, We were supposed to put each bundle on the wagon individually with a pitch fork with the head end to the inside of the wagon to protedt the heads. We had crews of wagons loading the bundles to go to the thresher. Sometimes we would race to get a wagon full first and two of us would hoist the whole shock into the wagon, one pitchfork on each side of the shock. The only problem was that dad better not catch us doing that. We had a Red River Special threshing machine and I can still remember how all of the flat belts went on that machine. It was a fun time.
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