Thread: Not even close to topic.....

.....but I thought you boys might enjoy what I dug up in the most round-about of ways. I was doing a search on tobacco spikes. I just learnt what they are today and am like a northern kid in a southern candy store.:D
http://ajlambert.com/denny/stry_wrd.pdf

Also, read an article in either Grit or Mother Earth News featuring a very, very, (according to the text) localized marble game named Roley Hole.

I may just have to pack some heat and venture down to see what ya all hillbillies are all about. No diss meant fellers, all in jest! I woulda come already but undecided should I just pack & bring my bags to stay, or will I be looked at as competition by the area pot farmers? At any rate you probly got more Kentucky Headhunter concerts there just by geographic proximity than we do and I am a partially matured man of 52 and have never been a groupie mentality or none of that but I have followed those boys music and who they are from Day 1 and gotta say the only ruralfied band I know that actually are COUNTRY.

Ya all have a good day and pardon me if I kinda barged in with non-crappie stuff.

In that picture is what my folks commonly refer to as a tobacco plug. Not to be confused with plug tobacco, though. It's purpose is to tire kids out well before bedtime, inspire them to move off the farm, and has the added advantage of placing tobacco plants that the setter misses.

That is what I was thinking there Matt..How you been man aint seen you around in awhile.I remember one year it was so wet we couldnt even get in to plant with a setter and we did a half acre with that kinda contraption.Walked behind the setter alot too making sure tobacco got in the ground good if not I used that to correct it.

This evening me and Thrill got out and came across some nice sticks and made up some beds to be ready to drop off in the water next weekend.

you are not even close. a tobacco spike is made of metal, shaped like a cone, extremely sharp on one end, and hollow on the other so it can fit on the end of a tobacco stick. this enables you to pierce the tobacco stalk and run the stick through it to be hung in the barn to cure before stripping. next time you wanna come bashing all of us folks from tennessee you need to get your facts straight first.

Spent a lot of time as a kid using some of this stuff. In my area the wooden device was called a 'peg' and was used to, as Matt said, re-set the plants that the setter missed. The metal device that fit over the tobacco stick was called a 'spear'. Either one meant that you were in for a really long day of very hard physical work. Again as Matt said, it really encouraged many a farm boy to see another vocation.

Originally Posted by samiam

you are not even close. a tobacco spike is made of metal, shaped like a cone, extremely sharp on one end, and hollow on the other so it can fit on the end of a tobacco stick. this enables you to pierce the tobacco stalk and run the stick through it to be hung in the barn to cure before stripping. next time you wanna come bashing all of us folks from tennessee you need to get your facts straight first.

I think I made it perfectly clear when I said no diss meant and all in jest so
take the chill pill. As far as gittin my facts straight I am not from tobacco country and 90% of the reason I posted it was to get feedback about it. It would not have been the end of my world to find out it was actually sumthin used to poke yurself in the eye with so one has something to gripe about, sheesh! Thanks fellers for the light shed on it, I appreciate it.

shoer,

Never heard a Virginia boy refer to himself as a Northerner, but call youself what you want. You'll be welcome in East Tennessee for sure, they were Union and even got a town named after a Yank Admiral, Farragut. But then again they got a street there called Dixie Lee. So there may a been a little redeeming confusion among the ranks. Who knows.

You been doin any broccoli fishin lately?