Which is it.......

[Diesel Doctor]

On 11/2/2024 at 11:23 PM, mikem said:

Seeing those idiot blocks stacked in that van trailer brought a terrifying flashback of loading 100 lb. sacks of potatoes into a refrigerator car .

Three refrigerator cars in one afternoon, as a matter of fact. Stacked everybit as tight as the bales. All the way to the ceiling, too!

This happened in the middle of winter. Taters going from S. Dak., to Georgia. One car arrived in good shape, a second car was frozen solid, and the third car was NEVER found.

As Forrest Gump said, "IT HAPPENS". 😆

Mike

Whether it is potatoes or idiot cubes, each is a backache!

[Rainman]

Ever drink from a Bubbler or water fountain?

[MacAR]

52 minutes ago, Rainman said:

Ever drink from a Bubbler or water fountain?

Water fountain, yes. Bubbler? Only in Wisconsin..... 😆

Of course, down here in the Land that Time Forgot, we drank from a bucket with a dipper up until a few years ago. Yea, we had indoor plumbing and all, but spring water in a tin dipper from a cedar bucket is hard to beat. As a matter of fact, there is still a dipper hanging next to my sink... old habits never die I guess. 

Mac

[brewcrew]

59 minutes ago, MacAR said:

Water fountain, yes. Bubbler? Only in Wisconsin..... 😆

Of course, down here in the Land that Time Forgot, we drank from a bucket with a dipper up until a few years ago. Yea, we had indoor plumbing and all, but spring water in a tin dipper from a cedar bucket is hard to beat. As a matter of fact, there is still a dipper hanging next to my sink... old habits never die I guess. 

Mac

Something about drinking from tin just tasted better! We had a tin dipper on the old well when I was a kid. It’s probably been 35 years and I can still taste it!

[MacAR]

17 minutes ago, brewcrew said:

Something about drinking from tin just tasted better! We had a tin dipper on the old well when I was a kid. It’s probably been 35 years and I can still taste it!

Yea, that's the truth! My grandad kept a dipper by his sink for many years... I have it now but it's about worn out... replaced it a couple years ago with another one. There were many old houses that had a bucket and gourd dipper on their porches in the recent past, but are mostly gone now. At some point, I'd like to drill a well on this place just so I can have a bucket on the porch again. 

Mac

[New Englander]

15 hours ago, Rainman said:

Ever drink from a Bubbler or water fountain?

We called the constant running ones in the park a bubbler.  I guess back in the day it was simple just to let them run all summer.

[1256pickett]

Mow or loft very much interchangeable here, mow maybe ahead 55-45%. 
hillside or side hill even more 50-50%. 
headlands for tillage or hay, endrows when planting or combining. Two separate terms. 

[MacAR]

6 minutes ago, 1256pickett said:

Mow or loft very much interchangeable here, mow maybe ahead 55-45%. 
hillside or side hill even more 50-50%. 
headlands for tillage or hay, endrows when planting or combining. Two separate terms. 

Never thought of it like that.... makes me want to pay more attention to the context of the conversation. 

Mac

[12_Guy]

Here in SE Ind mow and loft were pretty interchangeable. We used mow. You plow headlands after you finish up the dead furrows then you plant the endrows on them. Turnrow is a term from a bad “bro-country” song. Coke is any soft drink. And a bubbler is a part of a water fountain. Specifically the part where the water comes out. 

[dads706]

Pump water. Granddad would take me to check his Shorthorn cows. I had to stand on the seat to see over the dashboard. Come back to the barn yard and get a drink from the hydrant. Rusty Falstaff beer can with the top cut out. Stored upside down on a nail on the post next to the cattle tank. 

 

 

All of it corn field now, but I can close my eyes and see it and taste it as if it was yesterday.

He also took me into my first "beer joint". He set me on the bar. He had a shot and he bought me a 'pop'. Remember it still.

Sorry for getting mopey at times but some memories just bring a tear.

[IHKeith]

At home we usually called it the loft, my cousins with Dutch roots called it a mow.  It’s pretty much 50/50.  The only shock or misunderstanding of the different terms was at a young age.  Amongst those who called it a loft, it was a loft for almost every daily reference, but in the extreme heat it was referred to as a mow “I’m on the wagon and you’re in the mow, I was sweating bullets in the mow, not much room filling the top of the mow”  maybe the mow is the top portion of the peak?  
 

I handled a fair amount of small squares in my youth, it built some muscle and character for sure.  I remember lots of competition amongst cousins for who could carry/throw the most.  It’s pretty wild how full a barn could get and be empty by spring.  My best story about giving er in the mow, at the top, in the heat was working on a dairy farm 17 years old.  I told my boss to just feed the bales to me and empty the wagon as quickly as possible, the mad scramble kept the sweat out of my eyes, encouraged efficient multi tier building, and got it over with quicker than less bales on the elevator.  I had a gallon water jug that I would drink for each load, the hose was on for the trough nearby, even if the trough was overflowing, on for me then lol.  When I was in the swing of it I’d throw my empty jug down, John would throw off the wagon, stop the elevator and fill up my jug, I was caught up by then, he’d send my jug up and get another load, I’d have my jug empty by then and start all over.  Being 17 helped that situation but still it’s amazing how a body can be worked like that and just need a little rest and water to carry on.

Whatever you call the upstairs hay/straw/grain storage in an old barn, when it’s time to use the stuff up there you “put it down”  I think that’s pretty universal.  “Putting hay down” was common enough that a cousin in his toddler years repeated “hay down” for a while.

 

 

 

[midnightman]

Always was loft around here. The only time I’ve heard of the generic Coke usage was when I was standing in line behind one of our local indigenous families to get a snack at some event. The mother was asking her kids “what kind of Coke do you want, orange or Sprite”. We still find that rather funny and it occasionally still comes up in a conversation and we all have a good laugh about it. Never have heard it anywhere else 

[db1486]

On 11/8/2024 at 5:05 PM, midnightman said:

Always was loft around here. The only time I’ve heard of the generic Coke usage was when I was standing in line behind one of our local indigenous families to get a snack at some event. The mother was asking her kids “what kind of Coke do you want, orange or Sprite”. We still find that rather funny and it occasionally still comes up in a conversation and we all have a good laugh about it. Never have heard it anywhere else 

A guy I used to work with would always talk about stopping by an old c-store for a cold drink at the end of the day. He said they were standing in line and a couple older guys come in talking about which drink they want. The one guy asks the other guy, "which one do you want? You want the black pepsi or the red pepsi?" Other guy says "give me the red pepsi!" He was talking about Crush cream soda 😂 I guess they were all pepsi's to those guys 😂

[Hydro70]

never heard MOW here in Kentucky cause hay is in the hay loft and thats about the only time loft is used in our talk cause I cant think of nothin but hay loft thatll go with loft

[Hydro70]

want to hear some hillbilly talk then if you say yes you would say I reckon and reckon is yes and if ya cut a bunch of acres of hay you cut a right smart bunch of hay or ya combined a right smart acres of corn meaning a lot.  

[TriStripe1086]

Around here we called soft drinks a "drank", as in let's go to the store and get a drank. Also, partaking in an alcoholic beverage as in "let's take a drank".

[Hydro70]

Some people say them two ole boys been fitting, means they had a fight

We are leaving........................Were fixing ta leave

Youre crazy.........................Youre plum ignorant

oil.................ohhhh

they will work you.............................didnt hire on to be no pack mule

Coke......................sodeee popp

how far is it...................reckon how fer it izz

cross eyed fellow....................................dat ole boy can stand on the front porch and count chickens in the backyard