Moms can stack hay too! #hay #farming #newhollandagriculture

[James-czhf]

I so very much do NOT miss this!!! Especially since we had to walk along picking up bales off the ground and throw them up on the truck. No conveyer, field or barn.

[ozarkman]

Did 1000’s of bales like this in the late 80’s through the 90’s. Alfalfa in good ole Ky, always hot and dusty ! Good ole days. !!

[ungjzwf]

This beautiful woman is a real trooper. Love her ambition to help out on the farm. That’s togetherness.❤❤

[brunodobia]

My mom did that for 20 years about 100.000 bales of hay and straw combined together and fed 500 head of cattle and some pigs and chickens and geese and raised two kids and helped her husband every day and had a two acres of garden and no running water or indoor plumbing now that was and is one tough woman unlike the spoiled garbage there is now a day’s complaining about having to put dishes in the dishwasher and clothes in a wash machine lol 😂 no comparison and she survived The Nazi slaughter in Poland then married my Canadian Dad and still had a hard life but was free .

[jessiegoss]

Where is your hay hooks? So much easier with hooks. ❤😊

[garydionne]

Remember walking on one side of pickup for miles

[daviddaughenbaugh]

Wow I remember those days, prayed for sunshine and dry hot days. The heat never stopped us, I stacked on the wagon till wagons were full spent the rest of the day in hay mow till we were done, just to do it again tomorrow. I disliked the kicker bales, I didn't get a break just stacked yay in mow all day, that was hot

[albertamaycurtis]

Mom's can do anything they set their heads to doin. Raising kids is the toughest job. 😊❤

[rogerraduenz]

Yea tean! Hated the farm work cutting trees and so on, but now that I am older I really miss it and comradery . Hope you can enjoy a couple cold beers after and some great conversation

[jamesstegenga]

Started doing this on the farm when I was 6 with my 13 year old cousin. 20 years of doing this and I still miss it. Gotta feed them horses. God Bless Farmers!

[jamesdarnell]

One of the hardest days of work you will ever have.

[hidingfromu]

Boy some of you guy’s were really making the money. 5¢ a bale and someone making $10 a day. In my hay day (pun intended) our elderly neighboring farmer paid my brother
and I $2 a day plus his wife always made beef stew. As much as we could eat.
We never cared about the money, we weren’t gonna get rich on those wages. We were 14 and 15 and our mother told us to go help him out and don’t ask for any money. We weren’t gonna ask, we just went to help him out. Plus the lunch of beef stew was a surprise. Every time he baled hay or straw we helped and his wife made beef stew.
Best stew I ever ate hands down. None I ever tasted could beat it.
Large chunks of beef browned on the outside and tender inside. Fork sized pieces of potatoes and carrots. Parsnips and maybe smaller pieces of turnips onions celery and peas.
And thick. Your spoon could straight up in a bowl of that stew about 5 seconds before it fell over. And oh my was it delicious. But you probably know those old farm wives. Once they had a recipe that everyone loved, nobody was getting it. Not even her daughters. And they didn’t.

[marlar]

Stacking bales on the wagon was the easy part. Staying on the wagon while the older guy with a bad knee started off with big jerk was fun.

[andrewwilson]

I remember doing this in England in 1960s. We never had bale chutes, the bales were thrown on the trailer by hand. Hard work, good fun too, as long as the baler kept working! 👍😉

[manisicokala]

Gamin, J ai fait les foins chez mon oncle dans les Alpes de la même façon. Que de souvenirs.
Merci de les avoir fait remonter ❤

[MichaelCrowe-nkgt]

Oh the old days haven’t seen this in a while back breaker lol. Healthy work

[richardrylander]

How about a very simple labor saving hand held bale hook? Makes grabbing and dragging bales easy off the bale chute. Especially for those of us under 160 pounds.

[brianeisenga]

I remember my mom doing that job also. I was bailing and she and my dad were stacking. I was 9 at the time. We got a kicker bailer the next year.

[barrysimmons]

What a way to spend a lovely sunny afternoon in the country.

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[rdean]

I did lots of this as a youth but one farmer I worked for had two oversized sons that could lift ordinary bales one handed and stack them. On their farm they cranked their baler down so tight the bales were almost impossible to lift.