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At what age did you begin to help with harvest or farming?
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Shelly Heimer
Posted at 12:00h, 22 July18
John Beardmore
Posted at 12:51h, 22 July13 – and I loved it!
Karen.
Posted at 12:53h, 22 July12.
ROBERT ULLOM
Posted at 13:08h, 22 Julyabout 10
Dawn schemper
Posted at 13:09h, 22 July10
Judy
Posted at 13:09h, 22 July14
Amy Vice
Posted at 13:10h, 22 July21, when I started dating my husband.
Kimberly Neumiller
Posted at 14:03h, 22 July21. That’s when I was engaged to my husband!
Dennis
Posted at 14:26h, 22 July8
Mary Jo Maneth
Posted at 14:47h, 22 Julyabout 9 when mom and I plowed in the cooler hours of the day while dad and my brother took a nap. This was in the dry, hot years of the 50’s . The guy’s napped so they could work late into the nite when things were cooler
Trish
Posted at 14:52h, 22 July20, when I married the farmer
Paul E. Tomlinson
Posted at 17:23h, 22 July11 or 12, 520 JD making hay & hauling manure
Ann
Posted at 20:16h, 22 Julyabout 10
Julie
Posted at 21:38h, 22 July19!
Donna
Posted at 21:39h, 22 July15
Allen Walters
Posted at 21:47h, 22 July13
Wayne Hansen
Posted at 22:18h, 22 Julyaround 12 years old
Bobby Hansen
Posted at 22:20h, 22 July7 would roll behind planter
Brendan
Posted at 07:28h, 23 JulyKnee high to a grasshopper!
Karen Hancock
Posted at 08:16h, 23 July12
david
Posted at 08:17h, 23 JulyI was too young to recall, I would go with my grandfather on the international H and go bring the cows in from the back pasture and stay down at the barn during milking, as I go older more chores came along. That is why I still farm today
Chad Brenneis
Posted at 08:25h, 23 July7 years old Dad had me on the tractor teaching me how to plow.
Jerry Mathison
Posted at 08:41h, 23 July12
Darl Deeds
Posted at 09:06h, 23 JulyI was driving our Ford 860 at 5 and helping with ear corn harvest at 6
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John Murphy
Posted at 10:05h, 23 JulyAbout 8 or 9 years old my father had a threshing machine and used
an F-20 Farmall with it. I could not reach the clutch but my job was to stay with the tractor and slow it down and slip it out of gear when
he waved from the thresher to stop. I finally grew enough to reach
the clutch and start the thresher. Good memories.
cdsjerry
Posted at 10:17h, 23 JulyI guess it depends on what you call “helping”. I have been riding on the trucks since sometime less than 4 years old. At some unknown point I became more help than hurt but I couldn’t say exactly when that was.
I worked the wheat harvest from TX to Canada starting when I was 18 and LOVED IT! but stopped when I graduated college. In many ways I wish I was still doing it today. It was some of the best times of my life.
Dan McGrew
Posted at 10:46h, 23 JulyAge 4-5, feeding livestock, handcarrying gallon pails of water to chickens and hogs.
Age 6- Hoe crew thinning and weeding corn
Helping repair the threshing machine, from inside, craling around on shaker pans.
Age 8- Water Boy on the threshing crew
Age 11 — Running a bundle wagon on threshng crew
Age 13– Engineer on the threshing machine
Age 15– First year with hay harvest stacking in Colroado mountains
Age 16 — Combine operator with a wheat hqarvest crew, starting east of Panhandle, Texas.
Continued on plains wheat harvest and lmountain hay harvests until 20 with time for the army during Korea.
Age 22–Operating a side=hill combine in the Eastern Washington Palouse country, south of Latah. Crawler tractor on top of the hill, use a cable to hold the combine on the side of the slope.
Age 24 — Field fork lift operator in Green Pea harvest at Dayton qand Waitsburg, Washington. [Pay was double plians harvests and t there were girls to dance with in the povilion aqt the city parki on Slalturday night.
magne kåre tuhus,norway
Posted at 13:38h, 23 JulyAt seven years old i helped my parents raking hay with tractor Ford 2000,38hp.
Brian Nielsen
Posted at 15:28h, 23 JulyWell helping out by their standards or mine, we all think we’re big helpers at an early age. I spent a full summer on the farm when I was 14
FRANK DIETRICH
Posted at 17:01h, 23 Julya proud 13
Leann Barker
Posted at 18:36h, 23 JulyI started helping when I was 12. I raked hay. Now I help in the field doing whatever!!!