Picture for today

John B.

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In a day when the shovel was most useful, unloading lime in 1929.
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It must have been a Public Works project. As many standing with their hands in their pockets as those with a shovel in their hand.
Loren, the Acg
 
John B.,

Neat photo. Love the old triple box wagon at the front. Can still see some of the ornate design on its side.
 
ever notice inthese old photos, something is missing? no fat people, working their butts off kept them in shape, either that or times were so hard they didnt eat much
 
I saw two guys do that with 1000 bushels of corn off a semi one time. They worked darned near a solid week.
I was running a combine for another guy,doing custom work for Ore-Ida. They had hired a trucking company to haul out of the field with live bottom semi trailers. We got one loaded and they let it set at the end of the field all night. Somebody pulled the pin and unhooked the trailer. When the driver took off,the front of the trailer went right to the ground. It was twisted,so they couldn't use the live bottom to unload it. They had two guys shoveling corn over the side in to a loader bucket until they got enough off to get it jacked up straight and hooked back on.
 
(quoted from post at 09:28:55 02/19/13) It must have been a Public Works project. As many standing with their hands in their pockets as those with a shovel in their hand.
Loren, the Acg
hat was my very first thought!!!
 
Brings back the memories of growing up. We had hay wagons that we put side racks on to haul all our grain and eared corn in. They had no hoist on them either. Shoveled it all off my hand.
I broke an axle on a side dump full of corn last year. Shoveled that into another wagon and was thankful it was only a 125 bu. box. I wouldn't want to make a habit of having to do that all the time again. As was mentioned by the others, you see no fat guys around in them old pictures.
 
Notice that the supervisors are better dressed than the shovelers- they must be the guvment employees.

I thought for a second that the poor kid nearest the camera had 2 guys watching, and a third pointing at where to dig- but then I noticed the pointer had a shovel.

I remember the motto when I worked for the Highway Dept. as a lad- "If one guy can't do it, get 6 or 7 guys to not do it." What's orange and sleeps 3? A county pickup. . .
 

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