NM11046 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Just saw this on FB and it brought back some memories. I was a far better roguer than detassler. Did you all work the fields in the summer? Do they still do that? I was trying to explain this to some of my east coast friends and it was totally lost on them. https://www.theodysseyonline.com/struggles-that-only-kids-whove-detasseled-know 1 Quote Link to comment
I AM FOOT FOOT Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Walked beans and threw bails.it sucked Quote Link to comment
RedSavage Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Did detassling for two years and then one of the guys I was working with went and started his own rougeing company (and offered to pay me quite a bit more) so then I did that for two years. It was hard work and early mornings but it seemed like great money at the time! Quote Link to comment
Nebfanatic Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 I tossed bails until I graduated HS in 2013 Quote Link to comment
Enhance Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Never had a summer job growing up. My first job was when I was 16 and started working at a pharmacy. Quote Link to comment
Huskerzoo Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 I'm allergic to corn and a ton of pollen. My first job was at 14 working at a rec center. Quote Link to comment
Decked Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Worked at a car wash for a while. That sh#t made you lose some weight. Also worked at a few gyms once I got into lifting. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Detassled and rogued corn in the summer for about 3 or 4 years. Last year of that I ran my own hotshot crew. Northrup King supplied me with a pickup and I'd take 3 people with me and we cleanup the fields that needed it. Seemed like a great job at the time. No way would I even consider it now. And I know what ya mean NM...you try explaining detassling and the purpose to non ag people and they act like you're lying to them. Male and female corn, why I've never heard of such a thing...kinda funny. Also pumped gas and worked a couple restaurant jobs. One summer had 3 jobs I was juggling. One of those was at Long John Silvers in Columbus. That one didn't last terribly long as the manager was always smoking a bong in the back office. Not necessarily a problem but he would do a schedule, I'd have to coordinate with my other 2 jobs and then stoner man would forget he'd already done the schedule and he'd put a new different one out. Got tired of allowing for his chronic problem so I quit. Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Walked beans and threw bails.it sucked for some strange reason I read threw B A L L S, not B A I L S 2 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Walked beans, rogued corn, detassled, but by far my best field job was sitting on an arm spraying weeds. Had a seat, a little umbrella. That was easy work. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Walked beans and threw bails.it sucked for some strange reason I read threw B A L L S, not B A I L S Haha, me too. I read it that way 2 or 3 times. Figured it was some rancher slang for castrating cattle....until you pointed out it was actually B A I L S. Quote Link to comment
NM11046 Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 Detassled and rogued corn in the summer for about 3 or 4 years. Last year of that I ran my own hotshot crew. Northrup King supplied me with a pickup and I'd take 3 people with me and we cleanup the fields that needed it. Seemed like a great job at the time. No way would I even consider it now. And I know what ya mean NM...you try explaining detassling and the purpose to non ag people and they act like you're lying to them. Male and female corn, why I've never heard of such a thing...kinda funny. Also pumped gas and worked a couple restaurant jobs. One summer had 3 jobs I was juggling. One of those was at Long John Silvers in Columbus. That one didn't last terribly long as the manager was always smoking a bong in the back office. Not necessarily a problem but he would do a schedule, I'd have to coordinate with my other 2 jobs and then stoner man would forget he'd already done the schedule and he'd put a new different one out. Got tired of allowing for his chronic problem so I quit. So funny you bring up male and female corn .... I was explaining how the rows were marked at the end w/flowers or tags of some sort and that typically there were 8 (?) rows in between the two. Started to think I was crazy as I said it out loud. Quote Link to comment
NM11046 Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 Walked beans and threw bails.it sucked for some strange reason I read threw B A L L S, not B A I L S Me too - figured if somebody was getting paid to toss balls in the summer, good for them. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Detassled and rogued corn in the summer for about 3 or 4 years. Last year of that I ran my own hotshot crew. Northrup King supplied me with a pickup and I'd take 3 people with me and we cleanup the fields that needed it. Seemed like a great job at the time. No way would I even consider it now. And I know what ya mean NM...you try explaining detassling and the purpose to non ag people and they act like you're lying to them. Male and female corn, why I've never heard of such a thing...kinda funny. Also pumped gas and worked a couple restaurant jobs. One summer had 3 jobs I was juggling. One of those was at Long John Silvers in Columbus. That one didn't last terribly long as the manager was always smoking a bong in the back office. Not necessarily a problem but he would do a schedule, I'd have to coordinate with my other 2 jobs and then stoner man would forget he'd already done the schedule and he'd put a new different one out. Got tired of allowing for his chronic problem so I quit. So funny you bring up male and female corn .... I was explaining how the rows were marked at the end w/flowers or tags of some sort and that typically there were 8 (?) rows in between the two. Started to think I was crazy as I said it out loud. Yeah, I grew up in the city and don't know much about corn but I've figured out sweet corn doesn't have the genders so it doesn't need to be detassled. Most of the people around here are not aware of seed corn so they don't understand the male female thing. I guess I still really don't know much about it except they'd get super pissed if you pulled the male tassles :-) Quote Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Never had a summer job growing up. My first job was when I was 16 and started working at a pharmacy. Wimp Quote Link to comment
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