Posted by modirt on March 01, 2019 at 06:21:36 from (199.187.163.74):
In Reply to: Forecast!! posted by big tee on March 01, 2019 at 05:31:49:
I wasn't all that big (back then), but I never thought it was such a bad job. As recently as 2 years ago, I went out and picked up and stacked about 150 bales one afternoon by myself. Therapy I guess.
I started out raking hay when I was around 8. By 10 or 11, I was also mowing it, then raking. Dad hired at least 3 neighbors I can think of to bale it. Last one he used also had kids who were hauling. They all got fired when dad running the baler lightened them up to about 45 pounds to make them easy on the kids to haul. Of course he and the kids were getting paid by the bale, the standard back then being 60 pounds.
So not long after that, a brand new JD 336 baler, NH 479 haybine and NH 258 rake showed up. I got to run all 3 and I was in heaven.
I got to see a variety of methods used to haul hay.......the only one missing was a baler with kicker. The best of the best of them, back then, was a hay monster. Almost too easy.
A year or so ago, was visiting with an Amish Guy (AG) who my mother's cousin hired to haul square bales. Cousin thought it would be cute to make the bales 80 to 90 pounds, then pay the standard rate per bale.....the reverse of what had been done to us. AG said they were complaining to no avail. Next year bales went back to standard size. Cousin said he forgot one critical factor........he was the one who had to load and haul them out. He fought had with those bales all year....and it almost gave him a heart attack doing it.
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