Food in the fifties

[RushesToo]

@Ramrod
Would love to know more about corn tighers knot, hicking stick and winding barrow. Pictures if you can find them would be welcome - not a p1ss take, too young to know.
No wonder the NHS got good at knees and backs, 16st+ is when you start using horses not people - for deer and such.

 

[DrWazzock]

We still have a good sack barrow. Formerly used for lifting sacks up, now used for lifting stuff like final drive trumpets etc. Some of the stuff it’s lifted would have a HSE inspector wetting his pants.

 

[DrWazzock]

You can actually move a hell of a lot if you can get it into your back. Problem is getting it there which is where platforms and winding barrows come it. Bust part of my diaphragm lifting the entire back end of a Nuffield Universal in 1990 when I took all the weight of it when a rope snapped, so have been quite careful ever since. If my uncle had not been passing by at the time and took some of the weight I’d probably be dead now. Messing about with heavy manual lifting is pretty stupid.

 

[glasshouse]

You can actually move a hell of a lot if you can get it into your back. Problem is getting it there which is where platforms and winding barrows come it. Bust part of my diaphragm lifting the entire back end of a Nuffield Universal in 1990 when I took all the weight of it when a rope snapped, so have been quite careful ever since. If my uncle had not been passing by at the time and took some of the weight I’d probably be dead now. Messing about with heavy manual lifting is pretty stupid.

Why didnt you let it go?
Plenty nuffields about, not many spines

 

[DrWazzock]

Why didnt you let it go?
Plenty nuffields about, not many spines

Don’t know why I just didn’t drop it. I remember I’d made extended bolts to slide the back end on but they bent like toffee. Maybe was worried I would end up under it. Felt something rupture internally. Felt it for years but it gradually faded. Always use lifting gear now and if it fails let it go. And the damn Nuffield still couldn’t tip a trailer.

 

[aidan]

@Ramrod
Would love to know more about corn tighers knot, hicking stick and winding barrow. Pictures if you can find them would be welcome - not a p1ss take, too young to know.
No wonder the NHS got good at knees and backs, 16st+ is when you start using horses not people - for deer and such.

+1 I love seeing details of how it used to be done

I used a trucker hitch knot today rather than ratchet strap

 

[DrWazzock]

It was noticeable the old folk could still lift huge amounts but had much reduced stamina probably due to furred arteries, smoking etc.

 

[TheTallGuy]

@Ramrod
Would love to know more about corn tighers knot, hicking stick and winding barrow. Pictures if you can find them would be welcome - not a p1ss take, too young to know.
No wonder the NHS got good at knees and backs, 16st+ is when you start using horses not people - for deer and such.

Still got a winding barrow in a shed somewhere

 

[Easedoff]

Found this in searches...

"Orders of the Day — Farm Workers (Lifting of Weights): 10 Feb 1960: House of Commons debates - TheyWorkForYou" https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1960-02-10a.599.0

 

[Flatlander]

It was noticeable the old folk could still lift huge amounts but had much reduced stamina probably due to furred arteries, smoking etc.

I can remember when my dad was 60. He was as strong as an ox. Never a tall man but his upper body was immense. Most of his life was heavy lifting with little else to eat except what was grown in the garden or from the farm. Never smoked and only the occasional beer. he passed a few days short of 91. At 88 he still would do a day on the combine or the tractor. wife Brought food to the field one evening,it was pizza, can always remember him saying after she had gone,this sh!t will kill you What’s wrong with proper food.

 

[DrWazzock]

My ex girlfriends mother was a nurse and noticed a big reduction in hernias when gang rollers were replaced by sets that folded out hydraulically. As an aside, the tendency for Leicester bus drivers to drink a flask of string cold tea during their shift made them susceptible to stomach cancer. Occupational hazards always ended up showing in the hospital stats.

 

[yellowbelly]

Would love to know more about corn tighers knot, hicking stick and winding barrow. Pictures if you can find them would be welcome

Here's a winding barrow.......

We used to get into trouble for playing with it when we were kids.

If you let it down, with some weight on it, the handle used to rattle round at 100 mph and was likely to crack you round the ear'ole.

 

[DrWazzock]

Here's a winding barrow.......
View attachment 995922
We used to get into trouble for playing with it when we were kids.

If you let it down, with some weight on it, the handle used to rattle round at 100 mph and was likely to crack you round the ear'ole.

The brake was fairly rubbish as well.

 

[thorpe]

The brake was fairly rubbish as well.

i thought you were talking about the nuffield!

 

[Lowland1]

I was surprised when moving to Lincolnshire in 1991 that none of the schools had their own kitchens.

At primary school the lunches were ace (in Yorkshire). Fish, pie (mince in gravy), salad, puddings. On a tray. Lovely little Duralex glass. Parade past the head to make sure you'd ate what you asked for.

I'm sure modern home "economy" isn't helped by lack of knowledge. Why spend £4 on some chicken breast portions when you can get the whole chicken? Really joining a chicken is a very basic skill. My son is in year 9 and three years of "food tech" have taught him about diabetes and how to make a salad.

If you had been at a Lincolnshire primary school in the seventies you’d know how advanced we are. Lincolnshire kids were being fed a vegan diet fifty years ago TVP mince featured at least twice a week on our primary school menu. Just another example of the county leading the way…No don’t thank us.

 

[theboytheboy]

Here's a winding barrow.......
View attachment 995922
We used to get into trouble for playing with it when we were kids.

If you let it down, with some weight on it, the handle used to rattle round at 100 mph and was likely to crack you round the ear'ole.

Have heard that exact story more times than I could remember from my dad!

 

[Exfarmer]

We had a sack barrow made in the war lasted well into the late 70's but spent most of its life in the mill barn. one day I wanted to move something across the yard on a very wet day, dad came across me and said it was a very bad move and so it was, the wheels were made of papier mâché a wartime economy which lasted 30+ years until that day

 

[Chickcatcher]

Here's a winding barrow.......
View attachment 995922
We used to get into trouble for playing with it when we were kids.

If you let it down, with some weight on it, the handle used to rattle round at 100 mph and was likely to crack you round the ear'ole.

After the handle hitting you round the ear, every time after you remembered to disengage the handle!

 

[Easedoff]

After the handle hitting you round the ear, every time after you remembered to disengage the handle!

And they say smacking kids is a bad idea?

 

[Ramrod]

After the handle hitting you round the ear, every time after you remembered to disengage the handle!

The winding barrow's that I knew, the handle wasn't the problem as all had a 'dog clutch'

It was the tray crashing down when the release lever was actuated, even when empty it would have toes off.