Blast from the past- old tobacco barn

fishingtiger · May 8, 2017

I was home at my parent's house in Mullins, SC over the weekend and took some time to explore around my dad's farm. Discovered an old curing tobacco barn that I never knew existed. Surprisingly, it was in really good shape. Here are a few pics. Also, took a pic of the old Walters Tobacco Company processing warehouse. Sad to see such neat structures being eroded by time.

BriarPatch99 · May 9, 2017

I've put many of a day in ones like the top barn ... fell out a couple times too ...

Nice photos ...

Nicodemus · May 9, 2017

That brings back a lot of memories. Ain`t that right, Jimmy!

BriarPatch99 · May 10, 2017

Sure does Nic ...

It was "fun" getting those sticks of tobacco up in the crow's roost ... the short tier poles in the peak of the roof ...

I had bad words for the flue pipes of the old coal/wood fired barns ... until I slipped off a tier pole and landed flat of my back on one ... I walked away sore ... but the out come could have ended much different...

Dirtroad Johnson · May 10, 2017

Yeah, I remember those days well. I've hung a many of sticks in those type barns as well & cropped a many a row of tobacco.

rvick · May 10, 2017

A booger to hang but fun to unload.

Nicodemus · May 10, 2017

This tie horse is older`n me. The baccer sticks still smell like flue cured baccer, and it`s been over 25 years since we`ve grown any.

fishingtiger · May 10, 2017

Nicodemus said:
This tie horse is older`n me. The baccer sticks still smell like flue cured baccer, and it`s been over 25 years since we`ve grown any.

That is pretty cool! Not too many people would know what that is.

NCHillbilly · May 10, 2017

I've spent many of a hot day up on the top tier of a bakker barn.

fishingtiger · May 10, 2017

I had the pleasure of working in the tobacco warehouse during the summers. While it was hard, hot work, it was nothing like my friends who spent their summers in the field suckering and croppin tobacco. I did that a few times and thought that suckerin tobacco was the worst job on the planet.

I remember my dad riding me out to the farm at night after dinner and all of the workers and their whole family would be loading up those barns after croppin tobacco all day long. It was definitely a family affair.

BriarPatch99 · May 10, 2017

We'd haul water out of the creek in tar barrels (the night before)... dump with foot tubs into the floor of the barn ...to get the tobacco "in order" ... then get up at 4am and take out the tobacco ... just in time to put a full barn again that same day...

kmckinnie · May 10, 2017

As a kid. I help tear down 2 for the wood. I pulled nails.

Dirtroad Johnson · May 11, 2017

BriarPatch99 said:
We'd haul water out of the creek in tar barrels (the night before)... dump with foot tubs into the floor of the barn ...to get the tobacco "in order" ... then get up at 4am and take out the tobacco ... just in time to put a full barn again that same day...

Yeah taking out a barn of tobacco before the day even got going wasn't unusual back in those ol stick days. I cherish those days & glad to have experienced them but I didn't look forward to getting up early enough to empty a barn before the day's harvest when I was a young'n.

Nicodemus · May 11, 2017

I liked all but the suckering. That was the most tiresome, aggravating work I`ve ever done in my life. Every hour spent doing that was time I could have spent redfin fishing.

NCHillbilly · May 11, 2017

Nicodemus said:
I liked all but the suckering. That was the most tiresome, aggravating work I`ve ever done in my life. Every hour spent doing that was time I could have spent redfin fishing.

And the hoeing. And the topping. And the cutting. and etc.

We grew burly, so you had about 6-8 whole big stalks of backer, stem, leaves, and all on a stick to hang up there in the tier poles.

Dirtroad Johnson · May 11, 2017

Nicodemus said:
This tie horse is older`n me. The baccer sticks still smell like flue cured baccer, and it`s been over 25 years since we`ve grown any.

Nic I haven't seen one of those ol tie horses in decades, that's exactly the same as we used. Does bring back a lot of fund memories of that time period.

BriarPatch99 · May 11, 2017

Here is a Log tobacco barn that sits in my back yard ... It was built sometime around 1920 ... I've handed and hung tobacco in it when I was young ... it was wood fired when it was first built ... but later changed to kerosene "Silent Flame" cookers ...

It's life is just about over ... but soon will be a century old before long ... just can't tear it down ...

fishingtiger · May 11, 2017

BriarPatch99 said:
Here is a Log tobacco barn that sits in my back yard ... It was built sometime around 1920 ... I've handed and hung tobacco in it when I was young ... it was wood fired when it was first built ... but later changed to kerosene "Silent Flame" cookers ...

It's life is just about over ... but soon will be a century old before long ... just can't tear it down ...

That is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing! You should save some of those logs before they all rot away.

Dirtroad Johnson · May 11, 2017

I don't think I could tear it down either BP but if I ever did I'd probably have something built with those logs on the place. :cheers:

Love them kind of ol structures.

Nicodemus · May 11, 2017

Dirtroad Johnson said:
Nic I haven't seen one of those ol tie horses in decades, that's exactly the same as we used. Does bring back a lot of fund memories of that time period.

I`m glad I was able to save that one, and an armload of sticks. I wish I had been able to save a sheet or two, but they had about rotted down to nothing.

Jimmy, thank you again for showing me your old barns when I came over. Those are treasures of a time past. :cheers:

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