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Post by howard lee on Jun 20, 2021 21:04:43 GMT -5
Staff Sergeant Dad at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1949.
(That fountain pen in his pocket now resides on my desk.) |
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Post by majorminor on Jun 21, 2021 8:01:27 GMT -5
Helped the neighbors put a few hundred bales of hay in the barn yesterday. Moving slow this morning. Those small square bales, Steve? You get to a certain age and those things will wear a guy out. These were 60-70 pound bales. 268ea I think was the final count. The neighbor cuts and bales it and another neighbor had had a bale sweep on a 60hp Kubota that could scoop up and hold 8 bales. They'd bring that to the trailer and we'd stack them on the trailer until we got 48 on, then drive a few hundred yards, and we'd stack them in the hay barn. It was tiring but felt good to do. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 21, 2021 11:20:36 GMT -5
I've done that more times than I can count, and I always enjoyed it. Just fascinating to watch that knotter, isn't it?
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Post by jdd2 on Jun 21, 2021 15:42:45 GMT -5
I seem to remember mow it, rake it into rows, rake it again (to turn/dry it more), then run the baler (a dangerous machine), which chucked bales out the back, and a couple guys by hand from there stacked on a hay wagon. When that was full, disconnected and another swapped on, the full one towed to the barn where the bales were off loaded and the barn stacked full.
Continued good weather here, we did have the a/c on from late aft thru evening, but then cool enough to open up. And then close up before bed. Overnight low was 20.3, barely above that now.
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Post by coachdoc on Jun 21, 2021 15:53:02 GMT -5
93 when I left work. A little warm for a NH guy. Now it’s 78. 3 hours later.
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