What farm task do kids today know nothing about.

[2LaneCruzer]

Jeez, how's a guy supposed to follow-up a story about halter top girl? Lol

Out splitting firewood this morning with the '58 641 and TW-3, for and ministering to a friend whose Wife is battling multiple myeloma, thinking of this thread, it occurred to me that before I was tall enough to detassel, I was small enough to crank-away for what seemed like hours to make ice cream with grandma on the back porch. Darned good memory, long enough before I was of age to appreciate a good halter top and cut-offs though!

Wonder whatever happened to that old Lawnboy mower?

Woo Ho Ho! you haven't lived until you have cranked at least 10 gallons of ice cream.

 

[Streetcar]

Is there a reason to detassel, except for seed corn. Co-worker has family in the seed
business near mossroad location

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Cleaning the chicken house.

 

[Ken]

Around the age of 8 we were putting up hay with flat bed wagons and in bed was a rope mat used to hold the hay until lifted into 2nd floor of barn then when in proper position a short rope at bottom was yanked releasing the load to be returned to wagon and it went back to field to be loaded again .
Our neighbor was using the same method and his teen agers were in the hay mow restacking the hay when a load was brought in. After dark with poor lighting in barn one of the teen agers had grabbed the loading rope to position the load to be released . the released load snapped the rope and grabbed his fingers in the sheave block. taking 2 off his hand. we heard the commotion and Dad drove to the barn to check if he could help. the father and Mother of course beside themselves rode with dad to get medical treatment and we was asked to continue helping stack the hay for them. we stacked the hay until finished and went home . next morning found out the extent of the injury.

Using this method during the WW11 rope would wear out with no replacement to be had. we had a rope making machine . 6 large spools of binder twine and some one cranking the frame twisting the rope so would bind and be useable. 60 in length. also learned how to splice the rope. so would be very little larger than average size.
of course no tires available and if a large hole was punched in side or tread . bale wire was used as thread to sew up hole .then a large boot glued inside to keep tube from being exposed. glue made from horse hide heated stank but sure stuck to the boot.
Was driving tractors mowing or raking the hay before in first grade at school.
Once teacher stopped and asked Dad to not let my oldest brother bring his wagon to school since he would ride the wagon down hill and pass the teacher going home. she had a "A" model coupe and slow on a rough dirt road.
Life was good didn't know poverty since every one else had same problems. cannot recall a over weight kid in school.
ken

 

[goeduck]

Digging up the septic drain field when it plugs.

 

[Industrial Toys]

No overweight kids. What about ones with peanut allergies?

 

[RandyT]

Most kids today know nothing about anything (except video gaming and computers) mostly because their parents haven't taken the time to teach them. Just like in the insurance commercial where the kid has a flat tire and doesn't even know what a lug wrench is. Most kids don't live on a farm or have never been exposed to farm life so they wont know how to do anything on a farm.

I grew up on a farm, fixing things that broke by either mechanical skills or welding, driving tractors, doctoring animals, milking, slaughtering etc. We did it all on the farm and bought very little from stores, mostly flour, salt, coffee and sugar, the rest we grew ourselves. I don't think I could be that self sufficient today. But I did teach all my kids (boys and girls)how to do minor mechanic work on cars including changing a flat tire.

Have you tried getting the lugnuts off of some of these newer vehicles. May not get the nuts loose if they knew what the wrench was for. My truck torques the nuts at 130 lb/ft, and I have to stand on the lug wrench sometimes to get them loose. Put on with torque wrench and sometimes the 425 impact won't move them and have to get a cheater for the lug wrench.

 

[goeduck]

Have you tried getting the lugnuts off of some of these newer vehicles. May not get the nuts loose if they knew what the wrench was for. My truck torques the nuts at 130 lb/ft, and I have to stand on the lug wrench sometimes to get them loose. Put on with torque wrench and sometimes the 425 impact won't move them and have to get a cheater for the lug wrench.

Have the manufacturers changed the torque spec on new vehicles or is it just brain dead workers hammering them on?

 

[npalen]

Hadn't thought about the old trip rakes in a long time! My Grand Dad had one that he pulled behind his tractor. I remember him letting me ride on the rake and if I recall correctly, the rider could trip it with his foot. This video shows one without a rider. I also noticed the dog running along behind. I also recall that this was common on the farms when I was a kid. Farmer's dogs ran along beside the implement. They also used a lot of the old sickle bar mowers back then, so three-legged farm dogs were fairly common also.

McCormick-Deering Type "M" Self-Dump Hay Rake - YouTube

Can see the footpedal for tripping the rake in the video. I remember riding on ours back in the 50's. Had to be real careful where to sit on the sheet metal seat with large holes so didn't get the butt pinched. That really smarted to the extend I remember it to this day.

 

[MossRoad]

Is there a reason to detassel, except for seed corn. Co-worker has family in the seed
business near mossroad location

That's the only reason I know of... to breed specific strain of corn with another specific strain of corn.