Who remembers when

   / Who remembers when #41  
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I do remember... Timber, great thread!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: I remember my Grand dad in Vermont have a John Deere tricycle (two small tires on front) that we would get rides on... and getting yelled at for letting the screen door slam... I wish we had hog killing days and what not... wife asked if I'm going to be able to kill a pig or a cow??? I hope so...
 
   / Who remembers when #42  
I grew up in a small town. In the summer....we used to follow the ice wagon (for you young-uns: a horse drawn wagon with blocks of ice for ice chests). When stopped for a home delivery of a block of ice....the "ice man" would use his hand chizzel to shave some ice cicles for us kids. Sure was a treat on a hot day. :)

This was a few years before the "dilly wagon" which was a good treat as well.
 
   / Who remembers when #43  
I wish we had hog killing days and what not...

Ah yes, the good old hog butchering day. After recalling them My advice would be having a commercial butcher do the job.:thumbsup:
 
   / Who remembers when #44  
I'm with you, Egon. I remember hog killing days and calf killing days and chicken killing days (we sometimes had to dress as many as 50 chickens in a day), and I don't miss those days at all.:laughing: I'm very happy letting someone else do that.
 
   / Who remembers when #45  
I can remember times on the farm before we had electricity, indoor plumbing, or telephone. Heat was from a wood cook stove and a coal fired Booker stove. Water was hand pumped when there was no wind to power the windmill. The outdoor 3 hole privy had a crack in the seat that would open up when you sat down and close up before you fully got all your weight of it. I can remember butchering cattle and hogs...dad giving me the 22 to shoot a hog one time prior to butchering it...I wasn't old enough to go to school. We would butcher close to a hundred Leghorns every year, keeping about half and selling the rest. Our hay equipment used to be all horse drawn, converted to tractor drawn. In retrospect, I'm amazed dad didn't have any horses for field work considering he was at one time a Real cowboy...he homesteaded a ranch in the Big Muddy Badlands in southern Sask back in the 20s. Maybe he just didn't like seeing a horse used that way. I remember dad and my two older sisters picking rocks and throwing them into a Henry scrapper to haul back into the yard where he used them in a concrete floor. I believe it was municipal owned and rented out to farmers as they needed. I could barely look over the rim of the bucket back then. A couple of years ago, a friend and I were at a farm auction and there was an old Henry...just like the one dad used. We bought it and with a bit of repair we got it back to fairly good shape and he used to do a bunch of dirt work that summer. Brought back some good memories.
 
   / Who remembers when #46  
I never saw it done,but I was talking to a 70 year old friend of mine yesterday.
He was telling me he remembers about 50+ years ago in North Carolina if you lived on a real sandy dusty road a truck would come by spreading what he remembers to be a film of some mixture of oil:confused:. To keep down dust/dirt ? I ask him about Epa related issues, he said "I know now a days they would have a field day with that."
Anybody remember anything like that,sure would like to know if it actually was some type of oil mixture.

Boone
 
   / Who remembers when #47  
Sure, Boone, I've seen it done. It was definitely some kind of messy black oil, although I've heard, in more recent times, that it was a "different kind of oil" that wasn't harmful to the environment. I've got my doubts but don't really know what was different.
 
   / Who remembers when #48  
Sure, Boone, I've seen it done. It was definitely some kind of messy black oil, although I've heard, in more recent times, that it was a "different kind of oil" that wasn't harmful to the environment. I've got my doubts but don't really know what was different.

Still do that hear. Call chrolide of some sort?
 
   / Who remembers when #49  
I never saw it done,but I was talking to a 70 year old friend of mine yesterday.
He was telling me he remembers about 50+ years ago in North Carolina if you lived on a real sandy dusty road a truck would come by spreading what he remembers to be a film of some mixture of oil:confused:. To keep down dust/dirt ? I ask him about Epa related issues, he said "I know now a days they would have a field day with that."
Anybody remember anything like that,sure would like to know if it actually was some type of oil mixture.

Boone

I sure do remember that. Growing up, we had a dirt road until I was in my teens when they graveled it. Some farmers just used waste lubricants from their shops to keep the dust down until the county started spraying in front of the houses. Now they pave a short section of the road in front of the houses.
 
   / Who remembers when #50  
BIRD,300UGUY,TRIPLE-R
Thanks for replys will pass it on to my friend on Monday. :thumbsup:

Boone
 

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