Farming and allegies

Charlie M · Oct 16, 2014

Looking at some of the harvesting pictures in the combine section reminded my when I was a kid (early 60's) my Dad had a JD pull type (not sure of the model) with a bagger.It was my mother's job to tie and change the bags. She always had bad ragweed allergies. Can't imaging how she made it through ragweed season year after year. Farming and pollen allergies aren't a good mix.

BushogPapa · Oct 16, 2014

Back in those days, there were NO excuses not to get the work done...

Never heard my Mother complain of her (Bad) allergies, but I can look back and see she didn't stay in the barns a lot.
She would bale hay (Custom baling) and NEVER drink anything..it never occurred to us men why..!!
Many farmers around here often said she could bale more hay in a day than any man they ever saw.
Well, maybe it was also that the JD 216 baler had a huge appetite for hay..!!
She changed every coil of wire by herself, too.
My folks showed JD how splicing wires could be done without letting the baler run out of wire each time..

Ron.

Dave H (MI) · Oct 16, 2014

I am allergic in some degree to most all pollen. The worst for me is grass pollen so it makes a lot of sense (not) that I sell grass hay every year. I try to get it knocked down before it tassles, otherwise it is a problem for me. Not gonna stop, though. I just love making hay.

notjustair · Oct 16, 2014

When I was a kid I wore a wet hanky tied around my nose and mouth. I just rewet it from the water jug. It really helped. I also held my breathe the whole time I was dumping the truck. And rolled up all of the windows.

Now I just take Benadryl. About four a day usually.

Dick2 · Oct 17, 2014

I didn't realize it for a long time, but I suffered from a variety of allergies when on the farm. When farm chemicals became available, I would have a sore throat for 6 weeks during the spraying season. Doctor didn't realize what was causing the trouble either.

Then grain dust started bothering me, as well as pollen and certain smells on the farm.

I went on to college and worked in the equipment industry that minimized my exposure to allergens on the farm. I would have been dead many years ago if I had continued to work in the farm environment.

If your allergies are severe, do what you have to do to avoid the causes. My allergist told me that I have to avoid the things that make me sick because they would weaken my immune system and I would get something else more serious. And that is exactly what happened - I now have CLL, but by following the oncologist's advice I have remained at stage Zero for 5 years.

John B. · Oct 17, 2014

How do you stay awake taking that many in a day's time?

John B. · Oct 17, 2014

I was 30 years old when I discovered I was highly allergic to corn dust. Never knew it before until I realized the sequence of events that took place before my sinus infections and other symptons.

GordoSD · Oct 17, 2014

There is an app for iphones called "allergycast"
Gives you the eype and amount of pollens ect on a daily basis for any location.

Tech 7 · Oct 17, 2014

My Dad suffered with allergies and athsma. When he combined oats with his JD 12-A combine he would get my Mother or Grandmother to run the clutch on the tractor while he bagged the grain off the unloading auger and piled the bags on a flatrack wagon. After chores he would pull the wagon up on the barn floor and dump the bags in the granary. He eventually had to get off the farm when he was around 40 yrs old. Lived with pretty good health for another 45 yrs.
I once asked him why he didnt have a V-box for grain. He said he had bought the combine new for $1100 and didn't have the $75 for a V-box!

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