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Volume 8, Issue 5 - Feature #1322

Threshing Machines & Cook Shacks...

In the 1940s I worked on Jay Lepers Thrashing crew. The grain bundles were brought to the thrashing machine on slat sleds pulled by tractors.the bundles were dropped beside the thrashing macine by stretching a chain across the bundles and pulling the slat shed forward. The slat sled would the go back to the field to get another load. I had the job of using a bundle fork to pitch the bundles into the front of the thrasher. It was hard work but Jays wife fed us good 5 times a day. Breakfast at the house, Sandwiches and lemonade in the field at abought 930 or 10 AM,Lunch back at the house. More sandwiches and a cold drink mid afternoon and a big supper at the house after we came in from the field. Another nice thing Jay insisted that after lunch we rested under a big shade tree for a 1/2 hour or so before going back to the field

Earl Fugit - 2012-06-05 01:44:32

I have a story about threshing and the concomitant food preparation and the feeding of the animals and people. My wife?s uncle and his neighbors would all share in the threshing and harvesting of wheat or other crops. At each place the ?host? would feed the horses as part of the deal, except at this uncle?s place. He charged the owners of the animals for the feed that was fed to the horses. In addition, his wife had hired help, a young girl from just up the road a piece. When the meal was prepared and the table set, she was sent home for her meal and was to return afterwards to help clean up and prepare the next meal.

Jim Bradley - 2006-02-04 21:45:38

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