Hanging Tobacco

Today for the first time I passed a tobacco barn where tobacco was actually being hung. View it large!

The barn is open at both ends. A tractor pulls in a sort of wagon in which the tobacco has already been hung, leaves down, on thin strips of wood--about four plants per strip. The plants seem to have been pulled out by the roots (visible in the wagon at the lower left).

Then a worker on the ground hands the strips up to a worker in blue pants standing on the wagon (the hand passing the strip up is just visible). That worker hands it further up to the fellow in the red shirt, who places the strip on beams just under the roof.

I blipped the same barn (from 1948, in Hadley MA) just a day less than a year ago; the tobacco is already hanging from the lower level, and my comment (with further links) tells about the special quality of tobacco grown in the Pioneer Valley.