Posted by oldtanker on October 05, 2013 at 08:50:56 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: Ailing Farmer posted by dgasper on October 04, 2013 at 09:35:42:
I'd never heard of a plowing/planting/harvest bee while living in NJ. When we moved to MN I was 16. At 18 I was working for a farmer full time. A local guy got cancer and was fading fast. He had a 15 year old son who wanted to stay on the farm and take it over. So a plan was made for a bee to till and put crops in. About 4 days before the event the farmer across the road had a heart attack. First thing that happened was my boss sent me over there to milk and do chores and take care of things while the guys wife was with him in the hospital. I got paid by my boss to milk this guys cows for 2 weeks until they decided to sell the cows. Plus I participated in the bee. We had a total of 48 tractors plowing, disking, digging and planting. We did both farms in one day. When the old guy got out of the hospital he tried to pay me for milking and doing chores. I told him I'd already been paid by my boss for that and if he wanted he could try to reimburse him knowing full well my boss wouldn't take it. Several years later I got paid back for that when my own father was sick. They came in and did a bee for him and a couple of farmers with empty slots in their barns took in dads cows until he recovered.
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