SEGMENT: RECOLLECTIONS & FARM EQUIPMENT
Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 25
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- RECOLLECTIONS
- Mentions that in a long life you see many people die & move away. "I can't hardly realize I've lived so long." Bert is self-deprecating & states he just gives his practical experiences. (addenda item# 137, 138, see Aikman 13, 14 Clip# 900, 902)
- FARM EQUIPMENT
- Discusses how plows were made without steel & going to the timber to find a tree of a particular shape to make moldboard. Mentions Hapgood Plow Factory in Alton. More detail on jobs in operating threshing machine & job of bandcutters. (addenda item# 138, 139, 140, see Aikman 14, 15 Clip# 902, 928, 931)