Originally Posted by bearisgray
skedaddle - move quickly
It was always cause for celebration when one managed to get the hay in without it getting rained on.
My step-dad was really big on "men's work" and "women's work" - the only time I drove (basically just steered ) the tractor - an old Allis Chalmers that had a clutch - was to pull the wagon when they loaded bales. How **** was that? An inexperienced driver pulling a wagon on hilly land.
Was hay ever stacked like straw?
I remember (vaguely) sort of helping shock corn - and shocking grain.
There was a big stack - sort of rectangular - that had corn stalks in it - I think the corn was picked first - and I remember the men trying to pry corn stalks off it when it was frozen. This was thrown to the cows in the cow yard which was nearby.
We didn't have a silo.
Anyone remember threshing?
I still use 'skedaddle' on occasion.
I have vague memories of shocks in the field when I was a little girl, and my mom used to tell my own kids about the threshing crew coming down the road and there was still plenty of time to get a meal together because the outfit moved so slowly (I think she told me one time those old Oil Pulls moved about 2 to 5 mph).