On 3/13/2015 10:52 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote:
Yep, another one:
THE CORN CROP
Wilton, I really enjoy the stories you post. In my experience
it's rare for a person with a technical background to write so well.
And I like the subjects you choose - real work rather than just some
artsy impressionist stuff.
I can relate to those old farming ways. My grandfather's Ozark
farm had one of the corn shellers you describe mounted next to the corn
crib along with a hand operated burr disk apparatus.
One of the places I bought here in WV came with a barn collapsed
on a seed grain cleaner the size of a VW beetle. It blew air via a
hand cranked paddle wheel across a system of moving screens. There were
tongue and groove tight bins for the grain. This was on the second
floor, above a scale that weighed wagons. Further down the road was a
threshing machine in its own collapsed shed with an iron wheeled Fordson
tractor rusting next to it. When the neighbor who wanted the tractor
pulled it out only the top two thirds of the wheels were left and he had
to skid it onto his trailer. I saved the threshing machine for years
for a fellow from the Waynesburg PA historical society only to find he
had died and no one else was interested. It is pretty much melted away now.
On another subject, I have an interest you might want to write
on. I have heard bomber pilots are a superstitious group. Not wanting
their pictures taken and that sort of thing. Did you B52 guys in
Vietnam have superstitions?
Dave Gilmore, Cameron WV
Not all those who wander are lost.
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