Re: Makin' Hay

Posted by Charley hellickson on November 18, 2006 at 23:33:07 from (12.216.146.38):

In Reply to: Re: Makin' Hay posted by steveormary on November 18, 2006 at 10:46:07:

Hi. My grandpa Rector was born in 1890 in the MO. Ozarks near Oak Hill north of Cuba. He moved to Coon Rapids IA. with five kids and a team of horses and equipment in 1929, two years after grandma died having a baby, my uncle. Sometime in the thirties he bought a John Deere GP tractor. He said if you came to a mud hole you coulnd't slow down,you had to get thru it. there wasn't anything around to pull you out. He also had a stationary wire tie baler and did custom baling out of the stack. My mother, now 85, told me stories about baling. I think it was a wooden baler. There was a wooden platform on top, a man stood up there with a pitchfork and pitched the hay and straw into the plunger. Guys standing on the ground pitched the stuff up onto the platform. Mother and her older brother tied the bales. Mother sat on the outside and poked the wires back thru the bale to the other side, the inside,to her brother who tied the wires. She still knows how to block and tie bales. She said the inside was dustier than the outside. Mother also told me one time the guy who was taking the bales away went to P. and the bales started piling up. She got up and went back and threw the bales out of the way. The guy came running back, didn't think she should be doing that. She said it didn't bother her, it needed to be done. Mother was born March 1921.

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