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Love the smell of hay
susie
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Fresh mown hay. I also appreciate not having to stack hundreds of square bales on a wagon in the Missouri heat. My dad baled hay for other farmers as I was growing up. I worked my butt off. Started as a driver of tractors pulling a wagon when I was 8 or 9. Graduated to wagon or truckbed duty, stacking hay and then unloading onto the elevator for lofted barns or just tossing into barns.
Daddy hired hands to help as well. They got paid. I didn't. I have plans to eventually put a few head of cattle back onto the farm.
Seeing if editing post brings it back to visibility.
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I remember days where we would do almost 2000 bales. End of the day, Papaw would hand you a $20. 😥
I also stacked on the wagon coming off the baler. (Seriously beat picking them up off the ground and having to throw them up on the wagon or truck.) Unloaded onto the elevator or worked up in the barn stacking. The worst of times, the best of times.
Cutting/spearing hanging tobacco the same.
My sister got paid the same amount as I did and she never touched a bale. 😆
At least you had flat ground. We were in very mountainous terrain. It was not unusual for a wagon not stacked right or tight, that all the bales would fall off the wagon on a steep slope. Nothing better than having to stack it twice. 😣
Butchdog2 knew one of my relatives who specialized on putting up hay on steep terrain. Hell, we did that almost everytime, working with all the Hillbilly relatives.
We traveled all over to put up hay on steep terrain.
Look back fondly on all those times with Cousins, Uncles, Papaw, his Brothers (Great Uncles) etc. Hard work, but good times.