The only jobs nastier are being inside the silo when it was being filled and hand cutting the corn stalks around the fence line to enable machinery room to come in.
I grew up on a hay farm. When I was 12 I was a skinny kid that of less than 100 lbs. When I was 18 I had a 44" chest, 6 pack abs, and 18" biceps. The thing about the small bales had to be loaded and stacked in the field to get them to the barn. At he barn they were unloaded and stacked in the barn. After a while they were pulled out of the barn and stacked on a truck or trailer to be haled somewhere that they were unloaded and restacked in someone else's barn. It got easier with the wrapped round bales but that happened after I moved off the farm.
When I was doing this I remained the same scrawny teenager, while all the other guys would get all buffed up. I could toss the bales as well as they did, but didn't look like it. Frank
Done my share of hauling and stacking hay too back in my teens. We planted it, cut it, raked it into rows, bailed it, hauled it to the barn and stacked it to feed the cows during the winter. Wish I was still able to do things like that.
Two things I noticed,that he is poorly dressed (no hay chaps or jeans, loose shirt) for hay or straw which appears to be what he is attempting to stack and no hay hooks or even gloves. he ain't gonna last long.
Grew up on a dairy farm. Milked about 150 head/day. Had another 100 head of dry cows/calves/heifers for replacement. Put up around 150,000 bales of hay/year to feed through the winter. In the summertime, you were always fertilizing, cutting, raking, baling, or hauling hay. Started out putting up first cutting around May, wore those cheap cloth gloves. By second cutting, enough calluses on hands that gloves not required, except when hooking up a Kneib pop up bale loader to trucks in the field, because it would be so hot that it would burn your hands. Would love to be in that same physical condition today. Worked in jeans, tennis shoes, and no shirt. Last cutting usually in October. Fed it out over the winter, and start all over again in May. Got paid "room and board". They ought to get a rich man to work like that. But we WERE rich, just didn't realize it at the time.
That guy is lousy at stacking bales on the rack !!
ReplyDeleteI did my time on the racks !
At least he showed up.
DeleteIn my family that was about the time everybody disappeared.
That guy is lousy at stacking bales on the rack! I did my time on the racks!
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In my family that was about the time everybody disappeared.
DeleteThere was no getting away or thought of such in my experience. Thanks.
Yes a noobie in training... wait for it.... the unload part be tough. My back still hurts 50 years away heh
ReplyDelete:)What area?
DeleteDoing that for neighbors was how I earned money while in high school.
ReplyDeleteFrank
Congratulations.
DeleteDid it all day long, took my pay and took a young lady dancing til she begged to sit down. I wish I still could.
ReplyDeleteI grew up on a hay farm. When I was 12 I was a skinny kid that of less than 100 lbs. When I was 18 I had a 44" chest, 6 pack abs, and 18" biceps. The thing about the small bales had to be loaded and stacked in the field to get them to the barn. At he barn they were unloaded and stacked in the barn. After a while they were pulled out of the barn and stacked on a truck or trailer to be haled somewhere that they were unloaded and restacked in someone else's barn. It got easier with the wrapped round bales but that happened after I moved off the farm.
ReplyDeleteMust have been working out also...?
DeleteWhen I was doing this I remained the same scrawny teenager, while all the other guys would get all buffed up.
DeleteI could toss the bales as well as they did, but didn't look like it.
Frank
Interesting in that when I grew up there was no such thing as 'working' out.
DeleteDone my share of hauling and stacking hay too back in my teens. We planted it, cut it, raked it into rows, bailed it, hauled it to the barn and stacked it to feed the cows during the winter. Wish I was still able to do things like that.
ReplyDeleteWish I was still able to do things like that.
DeleteI'll take a rerun and I'll be 12 again?
Two things I noticed,that he is poorly dressed (no hay chaps or jeans, loose shirt) for hay or straw which appears to be what he is attempting to stack and no hay hooks or even gloves. he ain't gonna last long.
ReplyDeleteHay hooks?
DeleteWe wouldn't have even known what they were.:) Did anyone
else farm Orchard grass back then?
Grew up on a dairy farm. Milked about 150 head/day. Had another 100 head of dry cows/calves/heifers for replacement. Put up around 150,000 bales of hay/year to feed through the winter. In the summertime, you were always fertilizing, cutting, raking, baling, or hauling hay. Started out putting up first cutting around May, wore those cheap cloth gloves. By second cutting, enough calluses on hands that gloves not required, except when hooking up a Kneib pop up bale loader to trucks in the field, because it would be so hot that it would burn your hands.
ReplyDeleteWould love to be in that same physical condition today. Worked in jeans, tennis shoes, and no shirt. Last cutting usually in October. Fed it out over the winter, and start all over again in May. Got paid "room and board". They ought to get a rich man to work like that. But we WERE rich, just didn't realize it at the time.
we WERE rich, just didn't realize it at the time.
ReplyDeleteAmen.