Posted by IaGary on November 21, 2012 at 05:54:45 from (108.160.228.103):
In Reply to: Childhood memories posted by Philt on November 20, 2012 at 20:19:31:
When I was 8 or so my mother was sick with cancer(survived it and all is well now) I stayed with my grandfather on his farm for a couple of weeks.
He had an older style farm and ours was a little more modern. We cut grandpas wood with a buck saw and I helped carry in wood after splitting it. We had a fuel oil furnace at home.
When doing his chores at grandpas we started with grabbing 12 ears of corn or so, and running them through the crank sheller to feed the hens. And I GOT TO CRANK IT. Then to the hand grinder mounted on a stump. I got to crank again. He milked a herford cow for milk. We had a Jersey. We also had a pto grinder and stored our corn, after shelling it with a tractor, in a bin.
So all that hand stuff impressed me. And that maybe why grandpa survived on 80 acres and we had to 340 to survive.
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