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   / What's This? #11  
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It looks like what's left of a tobacco transplanter. I raised tobacco up until 1979. I saw some major changes from the 50's to then.

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/index_files/artifacts/tfl.html open this link and go down the page and you'll see a mule drawn planter. Parts of it looks close to what you have in the farme work.

I've work with every tool you see in those pictures. Still have some of them here. That planting/tobacco peg would work a man about as hard as any thing you see there.
 
   / What's This? #12  
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Gonna see a BUNCH of those old transplanters in that sort of shape before too long. The tobacco buyout sure changed the way people farm in Kentucky. My wife's family all grew tobacco for years. All of 'em gave it up.
 
   / What's This? #13  
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I know what you mean. It's the same here. Farms with lines of bulk barns sitting empty last year. In the tobacco belt I'd like to see a $ figure on equipment that's no longer of any use to anyone. The price tag would be staggering. It's hard on the growers too. The ones that grew it all their lives don't know what to do now.
 
 

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