Hauling Water

rusty6 · Mar 6, 2017

From the old family photo album. Hauling water in the 1930s. Remove shoes and socks, roll up pant legs and proceed into the slough with buckets. Try to dip up water with no bugs or slough residue in it. Empty buckets into the barrel on the stoneboat behind the horse. When the barrel is full, proceed home.
People knew the meaning of hard work in the 1930s.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 7, 2017

A lot different than most people today,,sit in a chair with the remote,,or play on the smart phone
most of the day? lol

casecollectorsc · Mar 7, 2017

Ya but, working with a pretty gal like that would take away some of the drudgery of the hard work.

gtractorfan · Mar 7, 2017

Hope that wasn't drinking water. Would be dysentery or cholera in the making. And, where did their water come from when there wasn't excess rain?

rusty6 · Mar 7, 2017

(quoted from post at 06:11:13 03/07/17) Hope that wasn't drinking water. Would be dysentery or cholera in the making. And, where did their water come from when there wasn't excess rain?

I'm guessing that might have been for laundry day , not drinking. Although I've heard of people drinking slough water, I even tried it myself as a kid and got away with it, I would not recommend it. No chemicals to worry about in those days but free range cattle added their own contributions to the water.
I believe they had a shallow well that supplied enough to drink but also very hard and not the best for washing clothes.

Dave Sherburne, NY · Mar 7, 2017

When I was a youngster we hauled water almost every summer when the well went dry, that was the early 1950s. A milk can just fit nicely on the drawbar of the Ford 8N between the stay bars. Years before we moved to that farm someone had built a concrete box around a spring about a half mile down the road from our house and someone, usually me would take the can down back it up to the door, fill the can with a milk pail then haul it back to the house. The springhouse had a 4X6 building over it and I don't recall ever seeing any critters inside of it.

37chief · Mar 7, 2017

Like others, Dad hauled water to supply our house, two grand mothers houses, and the hired help. He had a large tank he rolled on to the 54 flat bed. Needless to say no inside toilet.There was a 2 inch stand pipe in the next town. I think they knew we took the water. No one ever said anything anyway. Dad did this until 1960 when we moved a mile down the road. That place had a well, but the water was not fit to drink. We did have a inside toilet though. The pace had a cistern for catching rain water for drinking and cooking. Stan

rusty6 · Mar 7, 2017

(quoted from post at 13:27:35 03/07/17) The pace had a cistern for catching rain water for drinking and cooking. Stan

Rain water was not the greatest for drinking as I recall. But I still catch rain water off the house roof to fill the cistern that supplies my washing needs in the house. You can't beat rain water for washing. Clothes, cars, whatever. Pumps and water heaters like it too.

ss55 · Mar 7, 2017

I can almost feel the mosquitoes biting when I look at that picture. I hope it was a windy day.

Hauling Water

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