The House and Me Smell like Dark Fired Tobacco

[smstonypoint]

Gale,

A polite response to a not so polite posting. You, sir, are a gentleman.

Steve

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Everything I saw in KY was Burley tobacco. All of the barns I have seen here in NC were flue cured either in very old barns or mostly in metal "barns." Course when I was in KY that was three decades OK so I have no idea what they do now.

Later,
Dan

Dan you need to come on down to the MS River end of KY. :thumbsup:

Hopkinsville westward is where the dark fired is grown. It is cut like burley and put into barns but instead of air cured wood and sawdust fires heat and cure it making it dark brown in color. It is a very different plant with the leaves many times thicker than burley leaves. I have seen old timers smoke it but I hear it is very strong.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

One reason we never bought a chipper for the tractor is that that they were just too much money especially when one got a hydraulic feed.

I am afraid the DR chipper for the brush mower might be slow and hard work to chip. I have to investigate and even if it works I am still not sure if it makes money sense. But $1200 was cheap for a chipper if it works.

Later,
Dan

Dan I was looking at the blade in the DR chipper on their site last night and it seems massive enough. The 17 HP Kawasaki is strong because I used it another three hours today clearing of the side of our little road pushing the 3" dia. limit. I think the chipper flywheel is 18 pounds so backed up with 17 HP and a quick governor it should chip just fine. It should eat dry tobacco stalks like soda crackers. :licking:

Personally I need to stop buying toys and build a place for the ones I have. Nothing is flat on my place.

 

[dmccarty]

The 'bacca I stacked in high school was near L'ville on the farm that a teacher ran. I did worked for a guy who had a farm right on the Ohio across from Madison, IN that raised Tobacco as well. Never dealt with the Tobacco on his land though. But he had a very large barn for drying the Tobacco.

His farm was just upstream of the Marble Hill Nuke Plant. He had bought the land to turn into some sort of subdivision but the Nuke plant ended that idea. I used Google Earth to check out his land a year or so ago. Best I can tell the land is some sort of a marina. He had built a lake across a creek that ran into the Ohio. It looks like they might have taken out the lake and made a marina. Wish I knew for sure. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Dan I was looking at the blade in the DR chipper on their site last night and it seems massive enough. The 17 HP Kawasaki is strong because I used it another three hours today clearing of the side of our little road pushing the 3" dia. limit. I think the chipper flywheel is 18 pounds so backed up with 17 HP and a quick governor it should chip just fine. It should eat dry tobacco stalks like soda crackers. :licking:

Personally I need to stop buying toys and build a place for the ones I have. Nothing is flat on my place.

I have the 17 HP Kawasaki on the DR as well. More than enough engine for that chipper. I bought the DR generator year ago and the engine has more than enough omph. Kinda wish they would build a bit bigger generator. Thankfully I have not HAD to use the generator.

Running the DR for three hours I bet you are a bit worked out. :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

That DR does what they say it will do. What they do not say is how hard it works you.

Which is why I suspect they have quite a few returns.

I had to buy some very expensive work gloves, $30ish a pair, that had plastic over the knuckles to run the DR. I was busting up my hands when the handles of the DR would hit a tree. It is a heck of a machine.

Later,
Dan

 

[RoMad]

Back in the late 70's I was working a construction job in Ky. On a nice Saturday morning my wife and I were out riding my motorcycle through the countryside when we saw a barn with smoke coming out of it. We quickly stopped and knocked on the door of the farm house to tell them thier barn was on fire. The very nice farmers wife said they were just curing tobacco and there was supposed to be smoke coming from the barn. :laughing:

 

[Arky217]

Talk of tobacco farming sure brings back memories for me.
I grew up on a tobacco farm in southern Maryland in the 50's and 60's. It sure was an all year job, from the making of the tobacco beds in the spring to finishing the winter stripping and taking it to auction.

My dad gave us boys $20 each when we sold it in the spring.
That much money at one time was like a king's ransom to us.
Of course, when you counted all the hours we worked in it all year long, it amounted to probably one or two pennies per hour.

Knowing what we know about tobacco today, I certainly wouldn't have anything to do with it, but raising it together along with the other farm work kind of bonded us together as a family.

As boys, we always told this joke about the city boy who came to visit his country cousin. When he saw the tobacco in the field all bloomed out, he said "So, that's how they grow cigarettes."
(You might have to had worked in tobacco to get the joke)

 

[dmccarty]

Talk of tobacco farming sure brings back memories for me.
I grew up on a tobacco farm in southern Maryland in the 50's and 60's. It sure was an all year job, from the making of the tobacco beds in the spring to finishing the winter stripping and taking it to auction.
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Wasn't tobacco called the 13 month crop or some such because of all of the work it took to farm it? Anyone else heard this or something similar?

Later
Dan

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Wasn't tobacco called the 13 month crop or some such because of all of the work it took to farm it? Anyone else heard this or something similar?

Later
Dan

That is true. Some started plant beds in the fall. Normal sale dates was january.

 

[Transit]

You may think that my comments are harsh. I have seen too many family and friends murdered, OD and die or screw up their lives over drugs. One spent 7 years in Sing-Sing for a drug deal gone bad, he graduated high school with better grades than I did, I became an engineer and he went to the house of many rooms.

As for alcohol, wine with a meal, or beer with a sandwich for me.

I have seen close friends waste away from boozs.