26,000 square bales by hand! #farming #farmer #farm

[stevebutler]

Old man here. I made summer money hauling hay as a kid. I was the bale lifter, never forget the itch from hay sticking to my sweaty neck. Was always so nice catching a breeze on the trailer to the unload and stack again. Funny that average bales weighed 75-85 lbs but some famers would bale 80-90 lbs, those were awful. Thanks for the memories

[anti]

Man I feel ripped off. It was always 2 walked or ran and threw bales up to one guy stacking…

[sethm]

Use to do it like this for an older couple that owned a small place down the road. Only maybe 7000 bails a season usually, but we respectfully refused payment. The wife would drive the tractor and pull 2 wagons at a time. Man, the dinner this lady would put on for us at the end of those days will still be the best damn meal I've ever eaten. Just sit on that wrap around porch and watch the sun dip down over the pasture across the road, eating and shooting the breeze. They were two of the nicest people I've ever known. RIP Martha and Kenneth, love and miss you every day.

[kellylawrence]

Oh how my body remembers that. All summer long, that was just what we did. Never got paid a dime. Would never expect to either. It was up to family to work together to make it through the winter. I'm surprised how fondly I look back at those days.
Thank you for my walk down memory lane.

[CD-oqri]

Hauled hay like this, collected beer bottles, peeled cascara bark, picked mushrooms, when I was a teen back in the eightees to make a dollar or two ! It's what we did to get spending money! I wish kids now days would think the same way !!! Instead of free handouts from there parents!!!!

[terrencekanzig]

I asked my granddad about the good old days. He scoffed and said there wasn’t anything good about them, just a lot of damned hard old work. He was an early adopter of any new machine that came out.

He went from Rumley tractors to sitting in an a/c cab of our JD 4630 back in the 70’s. And well deserved it was.

[dwaynemauk]

I really miss those days of hard work. Sitting behind a desk, just not as satisfying as coming home dead tired, and hungry as a horse, ready to eat anything and everything. Fresh air, other friends who were working just as hard, you name it.

[bobbybrown]

Memories. My dad and I hauled 1000 per day for three weeks every year. Really hated when they got rained on!!

[billfulgenzi]

Years ago, as a 16 year old, I worked at a horse stable. A friend and I were helping to haul hay. Our boss had made some kind of deal where it was cheaper if we picked it up in the field. We were following the baler ( small bales, prairie hay ) when the man stopped the baler. I was running to get the last bale out of the baler. The farmer told me to get away from that bale. He then cut it open, and out comes a cut-up and very mad Western Diamond Rattlesnake. Scared me to death, I've never forgotten that sound of a very mad snake!

[chadhendrickson]

The cold shower after a long hot day baling hay has to be one of the best feelings in the world.

[countrykin]

I did this when I was younger we did it the hard way these guys are smarter. Man miss those days keep up the good work young man.

[gregfriesen]

In 1978 i was on my grandfather's farm in Nebraska. We also had a hay bail was me! Best 3 months I've ever spent as a kid visiting the farm for the first time. 45 years later the farm is gone, and all i have left are these wonderful memories....

[fedup]

I spent my life doing all kinds of work like handling square bales, shoveling grain, pounding posts, working on drilling rigs, construction, pipelining, mining, all sorts of manual labor. Now I'm old, my spine is shot, wore out discs, bone spurs and bone growths that pinch on the spinal cord, constant back pain, heart problems and many more ongoing health issues. I hope you people fare better.

[SharonGunter-ul]

I love smelling hay mostly alfalfa. If I am on the freeway an a big truck has a load
Of alfalfa I roll the windows down to smell fresh hay😅😅😅❤❤
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[Elliott-eh]

It’s finally time some farmer gives good advice to stack bales keep up the good work

[CindyByers-pd]

Farmers are some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met.

[darenferrell]

I use to help my uncle with hay. We did between 10, 000 & 12, 000 bales each year with a 8 man crew, two trucks & trailers. Everything was done by hand. We didn’t have equipment to pick up the bales. We worked for $5.00 per hour plus home cooked meals to die for. We started early morning after the dew was off and we worked to dark. I remember one day we were expecting rain so we worked until 1am. We had a guy on top of the last trailer load using a rod to push the overhead power lines up so we could get down the roads. You don’t know hard work until you have spent the heat of summer putting up hay and straw. Average temperature in 1988 was like 95 degrees with a heat index of around 100 degrees.

[stephmo]

Man was tossing those bales like they weighed nothing 😂 farmer strong baby 🎉

[brandonnixon]

So the machine does all the work. I needed this lol

[leaellas]

This is how men ought to be trained in childhood and teen years. Work until they are tired, otherwise they become too idle and troublesome.