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kcm.MN · Nov 16, 2022

harvesting sugar beets in 1930's Nebraska
Puzzle: https://jigex.com/LhAWA

db4600 · Nov 17, 2022

Grapes of Wrath.

muleman51 · Nov 17, 2022

Only 79 acres to go. That must have taken forever. Looks a lot harder than picking corn by hand.

caterpillar guy · Nov 17, 2022

My Grandmothers Dad used to dig a load cover with the leaves to protect from freezing over night. then when he got back from the plant would load them and then dig another load and cover again. Had to travel about half way across the county to unload them. My other Grandpa from my dad's side used to with one other guy unload train cars of beets at a rate of a car per day. Don't know how many ton were on a car. I do know they had for the wagons a spot that they had the wagons tilted to the side so it was pretty much just a shove them off to unload. I suppose the train cars must have been something like that too.

Richard G. · Nov 17, 2022

Those guys were true men.

Hendrik · Nov 17, 2022

Yes, and the beet lifting was probably also done by hand.

MNGB · Nov 17, 2022

(quoted from post at 06:56:36 11/17/22) Those guys were true men.

Yes and by the time they were in the late 50's 60's they were wore out old men I remember my Grandfather he worked like that all his life and was an old man at 60

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