Show I i i t- t ADVENTURERS' ADVENTURERS CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES o OF F P PEOPLE E 0 P L ELI LIKE K E Y 0 U R S ELF I Into the Whirling Knives HELLO ii ELLO EVERYBODY IS 1 Heres Here's a tale of the wheat fields of Canada an exciting exciting exciting ing account of how a man trying to yank loose a sheaf of wheat that was plugging the blades of a threshing rig suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly found himself being carried along toward them by the machinery ire he had succeeded in freeing It was a frightful experience and Howard C. C Flanders of Rutland Vermont wont won't forget it till the day he dies Incidentally Incidentally Inci mci- dentally Im I'm flattered flattered and and a bit curious to curious to learn that my column in the N New ew York Journal is read way up in Rutland Vermont Howards Howard's story begins back in 1924 when he was a youth of 16 living in the town of Sherbrooke Quebec In those days during the fall of the y year ar arthey they would import men from the East and even from Great Britain to work in the harvest fields of western Canada As Howard puts it succinctly The dough was good the hours long lone etc so I decided I would try it A week later Howard left Sherbrooke on the Harvesters' Harvesters Special A week later he arrived in Calgary Alberta A train that ran only three times a week took him on to Granger Alberta and thence he went by bus to Carbon Here he got a job in the wheat fields and worked three weeks So far so good Howard says I then went vent to work for a threshing threshing threshing thresh thresh- ing outfit where I came near losing my my neck neck or or feet would be more like it Howard Jumped on the Carrier to Free the Knives Then he says I dont don't know it if you understand a threshing rig hut Ill I'll explain as best I can The only part that concerns me is the A The carrier moved slowly but Inevitably toward the floating knives rear of the outfit There is a carrier something carrier something of the endless belt variety You pull up alongside this carrier with your team and rack grab your pitchfork and get going As you threw your wheat sheaves on the carrier Howard Howarde e explains It took them to the mouth month of the machine where a series of knives work up and down so fast the eye could not follow them These knives as Howard puts it do a job on the wheat and also cuts the cord that holds the bundle together We would work like mules Howard goes on unloading so as to get through and catch up a few minutes on the other fellow and take it easy Sometimes we would plug the rig and the carrier would stop and that's all This certain day September day September 29 1924 1024 to be the exact the rig plugged on them and not thinking Howard jumped on the carrier and anti grabbed a sheaf that was plugging the knives and started to pull and yank All AU of or a sudden Howard says it let go and there I was was was- riding along to those knives and destruction Picture the scene for yourself yourself the the carrier with Howard on board moving slowly but inevitably toward the flashing knives that freed reed now of their obstruction were slashing at a speed that made them invisible to the eye To make matters worse Howard because he had been obliged to go close to the knives in order to free them was now practically practically practically on top of them being carried closer every second by the speeding carrier as it picked up momentum it had lost when the sheaf had blocked it Howard heard a yell It may have been that yell that broke the spell that his startled senses were under At any rate he was galvanized galvanized galvanized gal gal- into action Just as the greedy knives were reaching for his clothes to drag him In and shred him to death he swung jumped on onto onto onto to the bundle rack of his wagon Breathless his heart pounding his limbs so weak he could hardly hold himself together Howard climbed down to 10 the ground And then suddenly he remembered the yell and the strange quality that made it somehow more than just a cry of ot warning He looked about The Mystery of the Machine Owner On the opposite side of ot the machine he found one of the owners of the outfit with his right hand all aU mangled and bleeding at his side In his hurry Howard explains he said he had been polling pulling pull poll ing lag a a. chain on the outside of the carrier trying to help the bundles through and when she started he looked up op and there I was riding merrily along His story was that the only thing thins to do was to plug pIng those gears some way and slow up that carrier or stop it and give ive me a chance to get off and not having anything anything anything any any- thing to use he slaps his hand between the gears and it slowed it up and gave me the chance to save myself To this day Howard says he cant can't remember whether that platform slacked up in its speed or not He does know he got himself clear I have often wondered Howard goes coes on to say if 11 the man In his hurry to get the thing going had taken hold of ot one of the crosspieces crosspieces crosspieces cross cross- pieces of the gear and yanked on it and when she started slipped sUpped anc and went Into the gear himself himself or or whether he was the means of ot saving my life ille or limbs I dont don't know The least I could do was thank him which I did didA A UA week later he gave me the gate and I have been wondering ever since just what did happen Howard finally got home broke but happy I hope he stays happy but just in case 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