My cousin, brother, and I were all 1year apart in age and spent our summers on our grandpa Truman's farm in the late 60's, through the seventies. Deere tractors, New Holland bailer, lowboy wagons of indeterminate make. He drop bailed and we'd pick up later with him driving, one boy on the wagon stacking, & one boy on each side walking, picking up and bucking bales up onto that wagon. When we were smaller, the stacker would load from back to front, stair stepping the bales 4-5 levels high, 80-100lb bales. This allowed the boys on the ground to just buck onto the wagon itself. As we got older, bigger, stronger, taller, the load plan changed. Grandpa would keep goosing the throttle a bit, laughing, till the ground guys were fairly running alongside, flinging bales up, and all the stacker could handle to keep up. It was a real right of passage to heave a bale up on top of the fourth level. Grandpa could grab one in each hand & toss them one-handed from either arm that high well into his 70's. Trying to get as strong as him was a natural goal I never attained. Nothing better on earth than the spread for lunch, the shower in the cool, rubble-wall basement after they were all run up and stacked in the barn, the cold watermelon sitting in the porch swing as the sun went down, rolling over in bed in a room cooled only by fans, open windows, and the breeze on the front end of a summer night thunder shower. Knowing you got them in just in time, it would be too wet to do any more on the 'morrow, and maybe we'd go to town and get a haircut...As he lost grandsons to colleges, girlfriends, the Navy (in my case), the loading plan regressed to where he finally hired other kids and then went to big bales. I'm darn near crying as I write this.
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