Did you have tractors/motorisation?

My family was a "rich" farming family in Ohio - until the 1920s (mind you, the depression began in the US-farming sector almost directly after WWI).

Modernisation basically destroyed the farming system as they knew it, also destroying most of the income base.

Things may have become "easier" after the depression because of electricity e.g., but the money situation only changed (for the better) after Social Security began paying the bills (grandparents going into retirement)..

Cheers, Dom
Munich
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My grandfather pumped oil with an engine-house,
my father pumped oil with a 20 lb. electric motor,
can't I just pump it online?

This was a no motor community. The used animals and human labor, some ingenious ram pumps for water.