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Albert Brecher

Summer's Farm
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Grinzens
date of recording:
2008-07-07
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1935
transcription:
Well, yes. In the morning. We have no running water in house had. The water we have at the trough - what you see here - got a bucket. As a bowl for washing is standing there, there is one .. Water in the bowl into it given. Since one has washed his hands and face .. And then you .. went back to work. Or in other words, at first breakfast and then we went into the field with the tool on the back, with rake, fork or shovel, whichever one has had too often to do with the blade slightly. With a scythe. - - - First Sense nor the thinning on the Dengelstockl that you have had a cutting edge for cutting. - By Kumpf, where the whetstone was dain in the water, after which one has sharpened the scythe again, if it was sharp again. And then you .. all morning .. been out mowing, later .. Once again some of the dry grass, first cut apart once - in other words, ummähen, then wide apart with a fork, then spread apart. Then, when it was dry halfway, you have turned it to the calculator - so that it is on the other side become dry. And if it was so much afterwards that it was properly dry, then you have to do it together Heumännern. And then one is driven through by car and on both sides were the Heuwürste that have been launched with the fork on the feed truck. One is standing on top of cars, who then put down the hay that the charge .. has not become slanted, because otherwise it falls for chariots. And then wipe the tree has come about, which was pretty high .. Front he was hooked into the rope there, which was firm, tree of wiping it and the back, which later pulled down by a rope. Since one has the right clamped, not, and .. drove back home. And when you're there went on a sloping hillside, where the Heufuhre would fall over can, as you have with the fork again held back from the side until you come over the slope is. .. Since we have to counter that "unheben," was called that. - Lift the back lift, also,. - - - - -