Posted by The tractor vet on December 04, 2019 at 10:17:29 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Re: Potato Harvest posted by ss55 on December 04, 2019 at 09:23:07:
Well since i have not been around taters since the early 80's i am not sure how it works today . Back in the day my uncle and his partner had a deal with at the time with DAN DEE potato chips for some and the rest were TABLE STOCK and bagged on the farm during the winter and early spring under the farm name , some selling local and some going distance to ware houses . He had a small fleet of semi's like four with at the time 38 footer box trailers then came the forty footers and newer tractors. And what a change from old Dodges and Fords with big gas engines to cab over I H's with 318 Detroits with 13 speeds and POWER Steering . Can't tell you how many bags of taters i sacked and tied , you will never know WORK till your on the sacker filling ten pound bags at the end of the grading table filling weighing tieing and stacking on a pallet . Just two of you doing this . God i hated ten pound bags and building a 42 -44000 lb load in a day . Took a crew of 12 to 13 people keeping the hopper full grading sorting bagging and moving pallets and loading into the trailer , some days loading two trailers then sometimes a Chip tater hauler would come in for a load and that would take two warm bodys away to fill him. that would take a bagger away to go fill the hopper and make sure the hopped did not plug . eight women worked the grading and sorting tables and as it think back i can see there faces all farm girls, wives . Not much talking as it was all work . same as sacking no time for talking as you had to say focused and when ya hit the weight ya had to switch to the next bag wad the top wrap the tie wire and twist and stack fast turn and hang another bag flip and do over . try and find help today to work like a dog , ya can't even find help to bale hay .
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