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4thchance11 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hey (flyonthewallzz),
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I'm happy to see there are others here that got a taste of apples and haying :-)
Yes, haying was a bugger of a job. 100+ heat, 60 pound bails...itchy scratchy, all day long....Boy am I ever glad those days are behind me. There's no way I could do that work any more. I'm to old and have a bad lower back. Now I make my living on the internet. I'll never get tired out punching keys!-
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flyonthewallzz11 months, 3 weeks ago
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I cleared brush and picked in Ohio.
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And then picked in upstate New York.
The thing that really got me was those wasps that made their nests in the apples.
I would get stung. and then the owner would dump my bin because the apples had finger bruises or I had not left the stems on.
It is quite a trick to roll the apples without finger tips and get them to the bucket 3 at a time without bruising. It always seemed that as soon as I got into the groove of it, I would get stung.
The orchard that I worked in had been an organic one and had not been pruned. We picked with 27' wooden ladders and a 2 bushel bucket strapped to our chest. There was a way of tying off the canvas so that the bucket could hold almost 3-1/2 bushels.
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