I went thru this back in the late 80's . I was renting ground as a mean's of extra income as i called it my Christmas fund. Rented a farm off a close friend that had not been farmed in forty years . But the fields were clear of brush as they were all in cover and used as pasture for beef that her dad raised . Tree lines needed cut back fence rows needed pushed out lane needed serious work but nothing a week with a good size dozer would not handle . So with a borrowed 750 B dozer the tree lines were moved back , fence rows were whipped out lane was a boulevard diversion ditches repaired and seeded steep banks along the lane were layed back so one could mow then and blended into the field so you would not roll a tractor if ya got to close and it gave way . Once i had that all done i set out to lay out a game plan on crops and hay . I kept thirty acres in hay with a two year rotation . Got the corn planted after some of the toughest plowing i have ever done , then came the hay making , i had a tractor a plow a nice disc and a like new John Deere 1240 platless planter and a combine . BUT no hay equipment , So to cut the hay i borrowed a friends haybine for that job and i bought a old Oliver baler at a sale for 12 bucks yep 12 bucks did a little work on it ran some old barn hay thru it and it made idiot cubes as long as it was on the flats or the bale chamber was on the down hill side but miss ever bale it the bale chamber was on the up hill side , Frustrating at the least as we don't have much flat ground . Like you i tried to get help and offered good wages and due to it being a nice day not one showed up . Hays down and ready to bale and NO help . Lost over two hours running down to a buddy's place and getting his kid who called two more guys and his truck and went to baling . Worked our donkeys off and got it all done some stacked in the old barn and some stacked on pallets at the end of the big field and covered with tarps . The next year i had it all sold before i cut and this time i borrowed a almost new kicker baler and four wagons off my one friend in a swap deal where i planted all his corn in exchange for the baling equipment and also got four more wagons plus my other friend long bed straight truck and the three boys that helped me the year before . while i was making idiot cubes as fast as i could stuff tripple windrow row thru that baler , The kids were unloading wagons onto the truck and you can get a lot of bales on 28 foot stacked up to 13.6 , once the truck was loaded then they started hand stacking on 20 foot kicker wagons that the friend with the baler had and once again you can hand stack a lot of bales on them once the 20 footer were full they did the same with the 18 footer and when we got down to the last wagon two got on and were hand stacking behind the kicker . when it was full we went o a couple 18 footer flat racks and hand stacked them and finished up as the hay was starting to get tough . I did that one more year and decided that the new method of farming was better suited to me and went to the C B M farming .--------------- C B M farming stands for CRON , BEANS and Miami . Got the Corn and beans down but never really got that Miami thing down. But with the corn and beans i could do it all by my self . and pretty much at my leisure and around my work . I could harvest once again around my work . Kids today don't want to work as it is HARD , HOT , AND DIRTY . Not like when i was growing up , When the word went out so and so was getting ready to make hay and was going to need a few hands the race was on to be the first in line to get that .75 cents to a buck and hour plus the FOOD or there daughter .
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