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Re: impliment prices

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:17 pm
by Bob Perry
danovercash wrote:Bought a new 100 blade in 1973 for $175.00. Three times that would not buy it now.


And in 1969 my first "off the farm" job for extra money was working in the feed mill, mostly working with 100 lb burlap bags of feed, at $1.65 an hour, and when I got paid it seemed like a lot !

Re: impliment prices

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:49 pm
by danovercash
And I was making $1.35 an hour sweeping in the spinning room of a cotton mill. As a kid I helped load the truck or wagon going to the feed mill. Then had to carry in the sweet feed to the milking shed.

Re: impliment prices

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:46 pm
by Bob Perry
danovercash wrote:And I was making $1.35 an hour sweeping in the spinning room of a cotton mill. As a kid I helped load the truck or wagon going to the feed mill. Then had to carry in the sweet feed to the milking shed.

What year? I'd like to say the minimum wage was a bit less and I got $1.65, but of that I am not certain.

Re: impliment prices

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:15 pm
by Matt Kirsch
Bob Perry wrote:I like the 1% tax.


Yeah, but I bet people were up in arms back then when it was instituted. "Govt. is taxing us to death!" LOL

Re: impliment prices

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:10 pm
by Peter Person
Federal Minimum Wage Chart;
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Peter

Re: impliment prices

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:12 pm
by brichter
When we left the farm in 1949, my brother who was 6 years older than me, went to work in a veneer mill. Shortly after he went to work they raised the minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents and we all thought we were gonna be rich from then on.

Re: impliment prices

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:53 pm
by danovercash
Bob, it was 1966 I think. Maybe 1965.

Re: impliment prices

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:18 am
by sgtbull
That is a very cool piece of history... I liked the freight.... 2 bucks! How's THAT for a cub express cost?