God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
I detassled for Pioneer outside Gardner, KS the summer of 1974, then got word we were moving to Indiana, and had to cut it short. Pay was great for the day, though. I racked up quite a bit of money that summer.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
I grew up in Boise. There's a lot of seed corn raised in that area but I never did get in on tasseling. I spent my summers gleefully bucking hay bales. That was before the bale retrievers were invented. I was tall and skinny but my arms were a lot stronger than they looked.
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They didn't do that in our area (North Dakota). We hoed sugar beets for $3.35 an hour. I think my first check was just shy of $80. I was the richest guy in the 8th grade.
They didn't do that in our area (North Dakota). We hoed sugar beets for $3.35 an hour. I think my first check was just shy of $80. I was the richest guy in the 8th grade.
When I was that age, the wages were closer to $1/hr. The thing is, though, in those days high school kids did a lot of farm labor. Now they live on mommy allowances. They have to hire Mexicans to get the stoop labor done.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
I grew up in Boise. There's a lot of seed corn raised in that area but I never did get in on tasseling. I spent my summers gleefully bucking hay bales. That was before the bale retrievers were invented. I was tall and skinny but my arms were a lot stronger than they looked.
I bucked a lot of bales of hay until I was 16. I went to work in a tire shop until I was 19. Between the 2 jobs I was in pretty good shape for a tall skinny guy. I never de-tasseled one stalk of corn but I knew a lot of kids who did.
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My little niece did it like every summer she was in jr hi and hi school. But they live in Iowa. I went there for her hi school graduation. Damn! Like to froze to death.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
They didn't do that in our area (North Dakota). We hoed sugar beets for $3.35 an hour. I think my first check was just shy of $80. I was the richest guy in the 8th grade.
When I was that age, the wages were closer to $1/hr. The thing is, though, in those days high school kids did a lot of farm labor. Now they live on mommy allowances. They have to hire Mexicans to get the stoop labor done.
Lloyd paid me $1.25 an hour. I always got fed at mealtimes and at lunch. When we accomplished a lot, he always said that he wished it could be more. The times that I released my screw-up/destruction gene I am sure that he made some comment about wishing that he could pay me what I was worth. It was my job to keep track. Being me, I probably shorted myself.
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My little niece did it like every summer she was in jr hi and hi school. But they live in Iowa. I went there for her hi school graduation. Damn! Like to froze to death.
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Yup. 2 summers. It paid well but the work was hell. Lots of bugs, mud and sweating. Inevitably tempers got raised and that led to drama on our crew. Saw a few fights and the slowest kids got hazed quite a bit. Definitely a job that weeded the weakest out quickly. If you could make it the first 2 weeks, the corn would get too tall and then you got to ride a bean buggy which was much better.
1966, me and my best friend one day. He lost his brand new ray ban polaroid sun glasses and I puked up my cherry jelly sandwich. Never went back and baled hay the rest of the summer.
A story from my son's days of detassling: The crew was run by our retired shop teacher. Jack had long ago shot away the major part of his hearing. He was backing the bus out of the field that they had finished onto the gravel road. He hollered to the back of the bus, "How much room do I have?" Voice from the back of the bus: "Another five feet and you'll be in the ditch." Response from Jack: "Don't you call me a son-of-a-bitch! How much room do I have?"
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
Yup. 2 summers. It paid well but the work was hell. Lots of bugs, mud and sweating. Inevitably tempers got raised and that led to drama on our crew. Saw a few fights and the slowest kids got hazed quite a bit. Definitely a job that weeded the weakest out quickly. If you could make it the first 2 weeks, the corn would get too tall and then you got to ride a bean buggy which was much better.
Lucky, we never got to ride squat. Cold, wet, and muddy in the morning, sweating balls by afternoon. I lost a shoe one morning in the mud my first season.... finished out the rest of the day in my socks. 🤣
The crews definitely do thin fast. I think both summers I did it we were down to maybe half of what we started with inside the first week.
