Posted by Mn Dave on July 24, 2008 at 05:05:36 from (98.132.225.142):
In Reply to: Pea-ing PICS!! posted by bradk on July 23, 2008 at 17:51:23:
I live between Le Sueur and Montgomery, Mn. and both towns had a Green Giant plant. So when I turned 16 I worked at one of the local pea viners. They were usually 4-6 units. The ripe pea vines were cut with a backwards operated AC tractor with a swather mounted on it. Then the vines were loaded by pulling a offset elevator through the fields and elevating the vines into a single axle 2 ton truck. The vines were then hauled to the viner location and dumped next to a drag line. The vines had to be manually hooked into the drag line using a corn hook. The vines went through a stationary threshing machine type machine. The peas came out one side into wooden boxes and the vines were elevated onto a stack that made pea silage used by the growers of the peas for cattle feed during the winter. When the wooden boxes got full of peas the boxes were stacked onto a hand cart and wheeled via a wooden board walk to the waiting truck to be hauled into the plant. Those were the days...........hard, long, hot work and great fun for us young fellows. Worked for .90 per hour and you worked until all the ripe peas were harvested and sometimes it was a 24 hr. shift. One time the field crew got smart on us, they ran a roll of barb wire into the load of vines, so you can imagine the time us young kids had untangling that mess. The viner units were run by Waukesha gas engine power units, and if things weren't set right they would give a good kick.
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