The Rural Voice, 2002-06, Page 39job was to keep everybody hopping
and everything on schedule. He led
by example always speeding from
field to field and place to place.
My job from the time I was old
enough to handle a tractor was to
mow the hay. Every day for a month
or more Stan's Minneapolis tractor
and I had a date in a field somewhere
in Morris Township.
Granddad Henry's job was to rake
the hay about a day before it was
ready to bale. One year Granddad had
broken his arm just at the end of
seeding time. On the first day of
raking it became clear that bumping
along the fields day after day would
not be conducive to healing a broken
arm. Granddad parked the tractor and
rake at the back of our farm near the
sideroad on Friday afternoon and
begrudgingly admitted that he would
have to reset his injured wing. So it
came to pass that Bruce was hired to
begin Monday morning to take
Granddad's place
Earty Monday morning Dad
collected Bruce and drove
madly across to fields to where
the tractor and rake were parked to
show Bruce how the job was to be
done. Bounding out of the car and
jumping onto the tractor at his normal
pace Dad was telling Bruce how to
start the tractor, how fast to drive,
how many acres he should get done
in a day and how to turn in the
corners so the hay would dry better.
Now with the tractor started Dad
told Bruce that he would drive up and
down the field once to show him how
it was to be done. Dad took off across
the field with hay flying in all
directions but only about half of the
hay being raked up. As soon as he
looked behind, Dad stopped and
jumped off the tractor to see what
was the problem. At that moment the
day came to a crashing halt. Dad and
Bruce discovered that over the
weekend someone had removed more
than half the teeth off the rake
making it useless until new parts
were purchased and installed.
Bruce went on to rake several
hundred acres of hay that year and
later pursued successful careers as a
singer with the CKNX Ranch boys
and as a school principal.0
Arnold Mathers' father Mel farmed
milnear Wingham, Ontario for many
years.
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