As the youngest by seven years my farm tasks weren't shared. And summertime brought many things to do, but haying was the big one. With the family roster down to Ma, Pa, and me dad invested in a NH bale wagon. It was the ticket for our set up. After morning chores I would "tip" the hay with the three point, PTO JD rake. Then after a bight I was off on the solo flight around the field. Dad would soon join with the bale wagon for retrieval. Baling without a wagon in tow made for fast baling and I had the old 12 MF pushed to the max. If memory serves me right the bale wagon was a 1032 with the unloading option and would carry 64 bales. By the time I was done with the baling dad would have a mountain started in the barn for me to sort through. By the time I would catch up it would be time for feeding and milking. When we were finished with that you could top off your day by stacking more bales. Dad and I put up a lot of hay with those machines and just two people. Two of our neighbors ended up getting a NH wagon because they were in similar situations with their manpower. Now it all seems archaic compared to the bigger balers and handling systems that are in vogue.
The most memorable was helping the neighbor put up his first crop alfalfa. He was a bachelor and had a hired man, but knew our phone number by heart. He went to Canada every year for a fishing trip and the particular year we had a stretch of rain that delayed haying. When the weather broke everything went down before he had to leave. We enlisted the help of a classmate from town and with the four of us put up over 2,000 bales that day. He had a kicker and five racks that the hired help kept in tow all day from fields as far as 3 miles away. The classmate and I manned the barn and elevator. The hay probably should have laid one more day, but the trip was planned and Leander treated the hay at the baler and then salted the layers as they were set. The bales ran 80-90 pounds that day and by the end we were whipped.
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