May 22, 1964
Friday, high cloudiness and windy but much warmer, 73. I washed in am. Mr. Kandora over in am for David to fix tractor and plows and plow for him. David mowed some lawn.
Comment: Mr. Kandora bought the Elmer Hubbard homestead from Uncle Earl and tried to do some farming. He always bought used equipment that barely worked. The first year he owned it, LaVerne and I did the "haying" for him with his old New Holland baler and I think, a John Deere tractor. It did not go well with equipment breaking down all the time and with lots of rain that summer. We wound up burning the windrows of the last field to complete the job because the hay had rotted. Mr. Kandora was always very jovial and civil but was pretty much completely lost around the farm. Here is a video of a similar baler being demonstrated: Take a look...lots of work and dangerous as hell with all the exposed pulleys, augers and belts.....would betcha' some limbs were lost in the history of that machine.....
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