Transporting Tobacco - From The Farmer to the Factory
After being harvested, tobacco leaves (green Mammoth Gold; our / sun- dried - Rustic, Kentucky) and stalks (White Burley and Maryland) were cut and transported to the agricultural complex of the factory by the farmers themselves, when plantations were located at a short distance from the complex facilities. Other means of transportation were the harvest wagon called carro de mão de varal, and the oxcart. More recently, tractors and pickup trucks were also used to tobacco transportation.
6.Harvest wagon (carro de mão de varal) - hand driven two-wheeled vehicle with a moveable axle, a shaft (varal) used for pulling and driving, and a dowel braking system. A raised platform was sometimes placed on the cart for the purpose of increasing its cargo capacity.
7.Oxcart - open cart with a pair of long shafts attached to a fixed yoke on the neck of the draught animal. For vertical poles, called fueiros, were often fastened to the cart, two on each side of it, in order to increase the volume of transported cargo.
