Posted by notjustair on February 10, 2014 at 16:13:59 from (174.229.65.162):
In Reply to: Strenious farm chores posted by Harvey2 on February 10, 2014 at 08:26:14:
I hated cleaning the hog houses but that was only every few months. It was feeding sileage that was the workout.
Using the loader tractor would waste too much. We used the old Chevy pickup. It would idle the whole time with the door open to hear the am radio. It was the combination of the fumes and the sileage smell that I got so used to. We had to fork the sileage in by hand and then unload it by hand. A heaping pickup each day. I remember hating that job. Grandpa did more than I did and he was over 70 at the time. He was one fit man.
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