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Rocks in the hot sun

rusty6

rusty6

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I needed more rocks to fill in the creek crossing so got to work with the 2140 and front end loader with the old IH gravel truck. The older parts of the rock pile were all hand picked by my ancestors and were good for the job. I guess they worked a little harder picking than I did although it was pretty intense heat in the cab of the old IH. Lucky it was a very short haul.
This heat matched or broke our records for 1988. I hope its not going to be another one of those years.
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Hauling Rocks etc.
 
I recall 88 being a darned hot year. Pa sold the dairy cows in 87 and was still running crops. I parked the Chevette in a field approach that summer and the converter lit the grass up and burnt the Chevette down!
 
(quoted from post at 06:38:17 06/05/21) I recall 88 being a darned hot year. Pa sold the dairy cows in 87 and was still running crops. I parked the Chevette in a field approach that summer and the converter lit the grass up and burnt the Chevette down!
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Bad luck on the Chevette. 88 stands out as the driest in my history. My dad used to say 61 was the worst he ever saw. No hay and crops so short they cut some for feed.
 
I harvested sidewalks and slabs. Made lifetime benches. I will share my leftovers. Free. You just have to haul it.
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Will load them with terramite.
 
Funny you mention rock picking.Just came in from picking up rocks this morning.My two sons,wife and I picking them up by hand.Luckily we do not have any rocks out in the fields this is from bull dozing an old railroad bed down flat.Not many rocks in the bed.I don't know why they bothered to add any rocks at all to the bed for as few as there is. Old RR bed from the 1830-1840's
 
DB ..... My dad owned two Chevettes back in the day, he loved those cars, they were a real workhorse and must have been bulletproof because my dad could have been a torture-test driver for car manufacturers and he couldn't break either one of them. Not sure where they ended up but they didn't go up in flames like yours did.
 
I remember 1988 hotter than holy blazes.
we would bale wagons in afternoon rest would round bale or chop for silo.
unload wagons next morning. rake hay till about noon. seemed like we did that all summer
 
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