Driving Through Rural KY today (Baccy Barn Pics)

[gwtwdbss]

I had a lot of windshield time today driving through rural KY. I saw these barns everywhere filled with drying tobacco. There were a lot of pickup trucks with trailers on the road as well loaded with dried tobacco. I could see some of it falling off as the trucks drove by. I wish I would have stopped and picked up a few leaves that landed along side the road. It was a perfect day to be traveling through the country. It was in the low 70's, no clouds, and plenty of pipes loaded up for my drive.

 

[lonestar]

Thats wonderful, thanks for taking the time to post those up !

 

[sparroa]

Excellent pictures, thanks for sharing. I'd like to see those sights myself!

 

[photoman13]

Wow! I'm guessing that's burley for cigarettes?

 

[ejames]

And maybe pipe tobacco...

 

[photoman13]

That would be cool to know. When we moved to tennessee our barn was filled with tobacco like that but we just burned it.

 

[tbradsim1]

What a view, did you take the General? The old cajun

 

[captainprophesy]

WOW!.. thats so awesome... could you smell it?

 

[gwtwdbss]

@tbradsim1
Yea, the General is my "A number 1" driving pipe! I had the General, The Captain, a Smokin Dragon Cob, and a Sav Antique Shell(very lightweight, great clincher!) that I kept in rotation all day.
@captainprophesy
No couldn't really smell it as I had a pipe between my teeth most of the day anyway.

 

[smeigs]

That is really cool to see! Thanks for posting man.

 

[vdubguy18]

That is amazing to see like that...
Thanks for sharing the experience with us...

 

[hobie1dog]

Back in the 60's my Grandfather and Dad owned an 1/8 of the county in tobacco farm land just north of Lexington.

 

[ssjones]

That's pretty neat.

 

[topd]

Cool Photo's! Nothing like the tobacco barns I'm used to seeing from when we lived in North Carolina.

Wish I had pic's.

 

[cynyr]

Those barns are a lot different than the ones I grew up with in East Tennessee, too. Most growers around here were small family operations, and most barns were like the one in the last photo. Mostly gone, now, and even the big sales warehouses with them.
My mother was chopping burley on the farm when she went into labor with me. She is 80 in January - and she and my brother grew a truckload of maters and peanuts this year.

 

[cortezattic]

:clap: I really enjoyed the pix. Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to share them with us.

 

[nsfisher]

Hey mate, here in Nova Scotia, those pics are something we would never see in real life. Really appreciate you posting them. Thanks.

 

[numbersix]

Awesome pics @gwtwdbss - I really enjoyed seeing them—thanks for posting!

 

[admin]

Love the pics! Thanks for posting them.

 

[brian64]

Fantastic pics...thanks for posting. That's a lot of 'baccy...makes you wonder how much more we'd likely be paying for pipe tobacco if it weren't for cigarette production.