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Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck
Your Grandpa is dressed pretty fine for stoking bundles of Grain!!!
Rare to find anyone who even knows what I am talking about these days, but it was pure effort to cut and dry grain for a thresher in those days.
Only did it once as a kid. Was on a field of oats and Half the stokes I did fell over.
Drewski
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It sure was a hard way of life! My BIL has a binder, and he did one round of the wheat field with it. Hubby stacked the stooks and after they dried, we pitched them on the wagon for the threshing machine. It's interesting to see how that all works, but I sure as heck wouldn't want to do a whole quarter that way. Amazes me that farmers ever got the whole crop off, but back then, all the neighbors used to pitch in and help each other. A very different way of life, for sure.