Life on the farm

[buckeyefarmer]

That will keep him saucy!

Hope things going well for you, and you are enjoying retirement.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Last pic showed dad opening up this field, it's all done, and we are about finished with the last pasture off to the top right of this picture.

other angle of the last pic

I figured we mow about 50 acres of the 195 acre farm. I usually round it up to 200, but recent surveys have shown it's a little smaller.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

my brother mowed more today, this is all that's left of the back pasture, then just one more pasture area and it's all mowed.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

This part that I mowed last week was cleared in 1971. Was pasture in 2nd 1972 picture. The part still left to mow (top right in 2nd and 3rd pic), was not cleared yet in these pictures. Not sure why pics got switched from the order I added them.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

1972 we had corn in the field behind the house. It all got picked by hand.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Started the Chimney on Nov 1976. Picture taken either Thanksgiving or Christmas time, as my brother was home with his Firebird. Sister bought the Orange Vega in November. The back porch was built in Sept 1976. Wood furnace bought day after thanksgiving.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

1970 The chicken house where we kept the laying hens. In front is lumber pile on stickers, left over from when dad built the house in 1962-1963.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Bought this 5 HP riding mower 12 Aug 1975 at Bargain City. Our first riding mower. My brother mowing in the orchard, aka right field in our front yard baseball diamond.

 

[wmfamily]

1972 we had corn in the field behind the house. It all got picked by hand.

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Fun times! This was about the time that we ended up picking a couple fields of corn by hand but it wasn't by choice though. Between old equipment (corn pickers) and wet fields we ended up picking it by hand. By the time the fields froze enough to get into them the corn had started to fall over so the picker wouldn't work then either. I was only 9 or 10 at the time and the corn is what we needed for feed. We ran it through a belt driven hammer mill into our little feed shed. Talk about a hazard!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Fun times! This was about the time that we ended up picking a couple fields of corn by hand but it wasn't by choice though. Between old equipment (corn pickers) and wet fields we ended up picking it by hand. By the time the fields froze enough to get into them the corn had started to fall over so the picker wouldn't work then either. I was only 9 or 10 at the time and the corn is what we needed for feed. We ran it through a belt driven hammer mill into our little feed shed. Talk about a hazard!

I recall 1 year when dad borrowed someones corn picker, all the other years we picked and husked by hand, throw it into piles, come thru later with trailer and pick up the piles and shovel into the corn crib. we also planted pumpkins in the corn, and we would take them into town and sell in front of my grandmothers house.

This 1972 picture shows corn over on the point, the field below the "big hill". Other years we planted potatoes here. there are also strawberries planted where you see the strip of dirt uphill from it, and it looks like maybe some pumpkins also.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Letter my dad wrote to his sister during Basic Training 9/27/1943 from the Wichita Mts of OK. Dale is his nephew.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Letter dad sent to his sister from Germany 3 May 1945. Joe that he mentions is his sisters husband.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Fun times! This was about the time that we ended up picking a couple fields of corn by hand but it wasn't by choice though. Between old equipment (corn pickers) and wet fields we ended up picking it by hand. By the time the fields froze enough to get into them the corn had started to fall over so the picker wouldn't work then either. I was only 9 or 10 at the time and the corn is what we needed for feed. We ran it through a belt driven hammer mill into our little feed shed. Talk about a hazard!

My Grand dad was only able to open his left hand about 2/3 of the way; which left it permanently cupped. It was also scarred on the back.

I asked him about it when I was a kid; he said he caught in a corn sheller and it was pretty badly injured.
I thought this next part was odd; he said the doctor treated his hand, and as a splint, he used a cigar box lid to tape it to. When he took off the bandages, the lid was warped and his hand had healed in the shape of the lid. Considering he was born on a farm in 1886, I can believe it.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I did basic training at Ft Sill OK. It was HOT! 108F on the rifle range.

Great letters.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I did basic training at Ft Sill OK. It was HOT! 108F on the rifle range.

Great letters.

Yeah, we get some hot weather here; but it gets pretty warm in Sharn Jean's home town of Gillmer Texas, especially in August.

I spent a Summer working in Trona California, loading boxcars with sacks of hot chemicals. It got 112, 114 almost every day, and the only thing that grew there was some salt tolerant trees imported from Saudi Arabia. Their golf course greens were asphalt; and I saw residents playing golf in that kind of weather.

Us imported Okies didn't go to the bathroom for a week until we got hydrated; drank lots of water and took salt tablets...but like they say, it's a dry death.

 

[Quaffer]

Trona California

Trona California can be miserably hot. On a par almost with Death Valley.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Trona California can be miserably hot. On a par almost with Death Valley.

Word was in the day, that it was only 60 miles away...and I believed it!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mom would have been 100 today. Here are my parents in 1962. First house I lived in.
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[Larry Caldwell]

Houses have sure gotten fancier over the decades, haven't they? I remember that brick patterned tar and asbestos siding. You couldn't get rid of the scrap by burning it.

 

[Buppies]

Thanks for sharing BEF