Posted by redforlife on May 21, 2023 at 11:59:11 from (174.213.212.214):
In Reply to: Re: 2023.05.21 posted by Bob Bancroft on May 21, 2023 at 03:44:05:
In my area back in the day, if somebody had a steam engine, they done a bunch of custom work with it to justify owning it. Would travel from farm to farm and do custom work. Would be in and out and on to the next place. Often times the neighboring place would be the next place it went. They'd line out thier work so that it was a continuous string from one place to the next. Where you were at in the job lineup (by location), was when they'd get to yours. No zig zagging around and backtracking. That way they could avoid roading these things very far from one job to the next (top speed was probably only 2 or 3 mph).
Around here, the custom work was mainly threshing. The guy that owned the steam engine, also owned the threashing machine. Or worked in partnership with another guy that did. In areas where they only raised wheat, as I suspect in this photo, they likely also done custom plowing along with the custom threshing. Obviously at different times. Likely didn't plow until all the threshing was done for everybody they worked for.
If cash payment was an issue, and likely was for most customers, X amount of bushels of threshed wheat were probly accepted as payment. Probly happened moreso on threshing than the plowing jobs.
To cut expenses, the water and fuel hauling was done by the owner of the place. Alot of times a team of neighbors pooled together to help each other out on this.
Back in the day, times were different.
Anyways, not just the wealthy owned these things. People who continously put them to work did also. Although they likely had thier steam engine mortgaged rather than payed for.
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