26,000 square bales by hand!

[@stevebutler8387]

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 barn.....to 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

[@kathrynlester2352]

I was never allowed out on the field. But I well remember being on the trailer and putting the bales on the lifter to go uo to the top of the barn. My two aunts were up in top of the barn and stacking the bales up there. It was always guys in the field, gals at the barn. Grandma and other elders, disabled working on feeding the crews and watching the youngest. With two trailers and trucks to load/unload it was a very long day.

[@jazzandbluesculturalherita2547]

Amen, me too. Lots of satisfying memories from haying season!

[@Fh5painter]

Then your arms burn for days from hay rash

[@jazzandbluesculturalherita2547]

@@Fh5painter Ha ha GAY rash!

[@Fh5painter]

@@jazzandbluesculturalherita2547 I meant hay

[@anti1987]

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

[@justinlm589]

Exactly how it was for me and my brother. Dad drove and we stacked.

[@deepsleep7822]

Same here, except when the load got tall two guys on the truck and two on the ground.

[@robertduree1177]

Been there done that day after day bails averaged 70 to eighty pounds sometimes more good days

[@sebastiencharette6637]

I sucked at stacking so I was a thrower. Old man drove the tractor and my older brother would stack. Man I miss the shape I was in those days.

[@Smed.69]

Factsssssss

[@sethm7595]

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.

[@Babinkley]

Thank you.

[@jodysanders6445]

Precious. Absolutely precious.

[@bobbydee1187]

With a tall glass of iced tea. Oh yea. I’m 64 and we still do about 14 - 15,000 a year. May get a better pick up loader next year. I’m slowing down I think. lol. Still enjoying the red man chew also.

[@JesusOurSavior7777]

God bless you!

[@bryantg7641]

That's what life is about !!!

[@CD-oq8ri]

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!!!!

[@user-tm2kx7fe4y]

I wish your generation didn’t screw up the housing market and get all greedy hoarding all the wealth and sucking up social security. Half y’all dodged the draft too. Living off the glory and the backs of the real greatest generation

[@CubeInspector]

​@@user-tm2kx7fe4y you're confusing Gen X and boomers. There hasn't been a draft since Vietnam which was in the 60s. You should have paid attention in school you might have been able to get a job that would allow you to buy a home if you did.

[@user-tm2kx7fe4y]

@@CubeInspector the last draft was 73 and the Vietnam war ended in 75. Ironic to tell me to go back to school when you don’t even know when the war took place. The people I’m talking about in their late 60s early 70s. Yes they use KZbin. I make great money now and I made okay money during my service. The housing market is terrible right now that’s not even a secret. You should go back to school and learn

[@marsbar999]

I miss mushroom picking and looking around for forest treasure, but uh. The property I used to pick has some uninvited guests. Last I went I was like a mile into the trees, wasn't very thick, very exposed. Heard suspicious noise following me the whole way in, then saw a decently new scrap structure in a clearing. Ffffffrick no, got outta dodge and haven't gone back. Some of us still do stuff like that, when it's safe 🤷‍♂️ I wasn't gonna bother whoever was there.

[@hellefur7861]

​@@user-tm2kx7fe4y I think you are confused. OP was a teen in the eighties, that means they where between toddler and not born yet, when le last draft happened. Not even in a desperation Will any goverment draft a toddler 😂😂😂 Anyways, OP could live anywhere in the World, there are also mushrooms in Europe and Asia.

[@kellylawrence9438]

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.

[@terrencekanzig4270]

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.

[@elidresner4850]

Love this, I'm a firm believer in the "work smarter not harder" theory there are massively more efficient methods for moving small bales that will save on both time and labour

[@The_poatto_farmer_6400]

My grandpa has a farm that back in the day would be medium today it's small sadly but he would always do thing the best way

[@johnslawnseasttn4489]

Smart man

[@dungeonmaster6292]

Your grandpa gave away the farm and rural life to corporate oligarchy

[@kuuppafin6011]

Yet some of us still want into it so hard they sold everything moving out of cities as soon as it was evitable that lifestile became under threat. Some of us will never live a day in a city like LA or NY but choose the same starter tent apartment in nature on 1 acre starter cabin in a place you've never heard of nor hopefully won't either. 😂❤

[@dwaynemauk566]

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.

[@kuuppafin6011]

It's called a good honest human experience back when it was not realised such lifestyle would ones be going extinct but so then will the cities it feeds.

[@RobertCHoweSr]

It's just what's straw. Try bucking some alphalpha in the rain.

[@dwaynemauk566]

@@RobertCHoweSr been there, done that too, mucking in with the cattle who are hungry, asking what's taking so long LOL

[@RobertCHoweSr]

@dwaynemauk566 Amen, brother, dark to dark. Right on!

[@fedup3582]

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.

[@familyfarmlife]

We have regular chiropractor appointments😅

[@anthonyhumphries5895]

​@@familyfarmlifebe better off doing yoga and having deep tissue massage. Chiropractors are scams, they don't go to medical school and it was invented by the same guy that did crystal healing

[@billfulgenzi2287]

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!

[@chadhendrickson5743]

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

[@bobbybrown5987]

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

[@gregfriesen1365]

In 1978 i was on my grandfather's farm in Nebraska. We also had a hay bail loader.......it 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....

[@corerlt]

The reason those farms went away was doing things the hard way...

[@johnypitman2368]

​@@corerltyou are so full of crap The reason small farms have failed was the government continued to destroy them with taxs and regulations. Big biz can buy the equipment small farmers cant afford

[@AndJusticeForAll1231]

@@corerltnot true. They got bought by corporations and turned into warehouses

[@corerlt]

@@AndJusticeForAll1231 Not true. the farm kids picking small squares off the ground left the farm as soon as possible and went to college or got a job or went into the military. Anyting to get away from picking small squares off the ground by hand. Then dad and mom were left on the farm alone and they eventually sold the land to a bigger farmer.......

[@gregfriesen1365]

@corerlt the reason grad dad's farm went away is he got too old to manage the farm. My uncle, who worked with him, had a massive heart attack. So the decision was made to sell the farm. My dad, his remaining brother, and my aunt all own 40 acres each, and that is all that remains. So sad . I loved that farm. ......

[@CindyByers-p8d]

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

[@anondimwit]

Laziest

[@abdullahharis9875]

Hard earned money there

[@Daxxxman]

​@@anondimwitdid you find a mirror?

[@anondimwit]

@@Daxxxmanyes and I see someone who actually created a better way to do this on my farm

[@muddingoff-road2971]

@@abdullahharis9875when you don’t really make money small anymore. You need atleast 150 acres to be a full time profitable farmer in this economy

[@leaellas8400]

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.

[@BjornBear21]

I’ve done a lot of hard work in my life from framing houses, concrete, plumbing,etc. but the hardest work I’ve ever done is loading hay. I hated it every year. 😂

[@stephmo371]

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

[@carlosmeraz9469]

They are 2 twine. They ARE nothing. 3 twine and up is where it's at.

[@JackyHeijmans]

@@carlosmeraz9469 I'm still impressed.

[@ryanm7832]

Small bales, and he ain't worn out from running next to the trailer. So he better be throwin'em around like nothing!

[@cowboy5986]

they're straw bales which is why

[@caseymiller8045]

I mean it's a 2 string lol

[@darenferrell6656]

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.

[@ambermarshall2922]

5$ an hour? You guys were paid!?!? We got fresh milk and homemade cookies.

[@dabd8175]

You don't know hard work till ur working outside doing this bs and it's 30 below

[@sammygouge1325]

I've done hay an tobacco I must say it's all hard

[@robertdahle7216]

​@@dabd8175You didn't do this s*** in thirty blow weather.Who you fucking trying to lie to.

[@kennethheern4896]

$5. Was pretty good back then, especially with a big crew like that.

[@horndogfred5246]

I have spent so many summers doing this. We didnt have the handy loader thing though, we just had a guy on the ground throw them up to the trailer.

[@spicycicada3665]

Yea it’s a miserable job but we had to do it

[@lindabrown1194]

⁠@@spicycicada3665koo😅o

[@thewhitedahlia.8108]

​@@spicycicada3665it's not miserable, it's being a man.

[@spicycicada3665]

@@thewhitedahlia.8108 Well I think it’s working conditions suck but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t do it or that I don’t enjoy doing it

[@AmarjeetKaur-xu2gq]

​@@spicycicada3665😂😢

[@Zera180crypto]

We hauled 3k bales with 2 ton flat bed dump trucks from warrior Alabama to Birmingham Alabama bout 20 years ago and I know how much work that was for 6 of us I feel for you, we'll say that lol

[@ganggreen9012]

I spent my high school years throwing and stacking hay and straw and loading up 100 pound bags of feed. One day I was at a friend's house in town and a couple of them were weight lifting. They had 120 pounds on a bar doing bench presses, asked me if I wanted to have a turn so I grabbed the bar and did a set of curls.

[@bigtruncyjr]

I always threw them up running along side the trailer got paid 5 dollars an hour that was in 94

[@kingkj664]

I'd like to hear more

[@kevinisbell1867]

What does a average bail weigh?

[@molinesloth01]

@@kevinisbell1867Around 50-60 pounds

[@mfcobb1]

You got paid pretty good. I did it so I could eat. It was beans and cornbread.

[@patrickancona1193]

YOU GOT PAID?!?! I got to eat, their was a rumor of pay from mom but I never saw any, I’d go back to them days ina heartbeat, biggest worry was keeping up my grades to not ride the bench

[@countrykin7456]

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.

[@jeffsmith5077]

Respect. One farmer to another. Need more kids doin this. Then they learn real quick what work is.

[@thehotdogman9317]

Nahh. Making them do it the old school way manually is the way to go. Then they can appreciate the tools we have today.

[@McNottagoose]

​@@thehotdogman9317send em to the amish for a few months?

[@SharonGunter-u5l]

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😅😅😅❤❤ ❤❤❤

[@AmericanArgonaut]

Have those boys show the camera their forearms after the jobs done.... I spent countless days doing this. For you commoner city folks. This is where that farm boy strength comes from. lol

[@hbikerbob7210]

Brings back some good memories of my youth

[@kennethwoolever5054]

Memories yeah, not always good though

[@kennethwoolever5054]

Living on a farm for almost 12 years of my life, there's death some memories that I wish I could forget, but now at 64 everything about my childhood seems to flash around in the brain. My best dog passing, along with a terrific first deer hunting trip with my dad at 12 years ago.

[@declansills1614]

You make sure to start out with folks that don't mind working. These two are a good example of what's needed.👍

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

You are wearing out your bodies doing it this way. Work smarter, use technology; save your body.

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

I used to do this same work on farms... but only for a couple of years.... throwing them up onto the trailer, stacking on the trailer then in the barn. They were grass bales so heavier than straw bales. (Less than 2000 bales per year as the majority of feed was pit silage..... The farmers adopted machinery ASAP and now at 68 years of age... I am glad they did..... @Scrapps97

[@prgx52]

wow, sucking up during woke pride month, wow, what a creepy groomer

[@Josephcasano-wk3rx]

Hard working young men God bless you all

[@ae_frosty8549]

It’s crazy to see the difference in technology nowadays but it’s also good to see these older techniques aren’t being fazed out

[@Elliott-e8h]

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

[@ToddStewart69]

Did this a lot on my grandparents farm growing up.. bringing back good memories! Keep up the good work fellas

[@YosemiteDan2615]

The little cuts from the hay pricking you, is my most vivid hate/love memory...

[@HeisenbergChugs]

Actually it’s straw

[@Qui-Dad-Jinn]

We had an old beat up pick up with a granny gear. Pop walked along side it and threw the bales up on the flat bed and I'd stack them as high as an 8 year old could. Good memories.

[@davidthomas3859]

Yup, until I was about 16 then I did the throwing.

[@Mike0]

You threw 26000 bails 😮

[@Qui-Dad-Jinn]

@@Mike0 over those few summers? I doubt that many. I was citified by that point. Pop would chuckle when I couldn't keep up, he'd jump up, help me stack, then go back to throwing. Old Minnesota farm boy through and through.

[@paulgrisez5834]

You must be talking about a old chevy truck with the 5 speed transmission with granny gear

[@iloveamerica286]

My grandpa used to do the same thing with his pickup. Only he used to do it alone. He was about 16.

[@PghNGDave31]

God bless our farmers

[@curtis9795]

I remember getting two full wagons dumped on the bail conveyor by my screaming uncle “I don’t care rain is coming! We got to get it in the barn “! My cousin and I running back and forth in the barn attic in 100+ degree heat. Ah to be 16 and fit AF again. I’d go back and do it all over!

[@onecrazytruckinfarmer]

I miss them days. When my grandpa was still alive he’d run the tractor and baler and I’d be on the wagon stacking them. Sure wish heaven had visiting hours.

[@scots_knight4706]

Got to say "Sure wish Heaven had visiting hours" probably the best comment I've read in a long time 😁 Deserves way more likes 👍

[@onecrazytruckinfarmer]

@@scots_knight4706thank you

[@2birddogsandawolfdog945]

Go talk to a medium

[@SallyL-t2y]

That's not how it works take it from me I stack on the wagon for a living and I am ripped as hell but it hurts at the end of the day

[@billverheyden2561]

I’m 57 and Still stacking on the wagon, then I get to stack em in the barn.

[@nowaistedspace4946]

We had one of those early "kicker" bailers. It could kick 100lb "green" bales that would knock you off your feet. Farm boys are made tough.

[@Lakeman3211]

Back in the day..we had a 73 international load star flat bed dump with a steel bed, a 75 dodge 4x4 3/4 ton for the hills and gooey spots…and it was all up to me after the bailing was done..stick them in low/low and let them crawl along as I threw bales on and hopped up and stack them quick…they would overheat and as I got to the barn they’d get a good cooldown with a hose and back I went…I loved every minute of it…

[@Fishyyyyboyy]

You can also hook a trailer behind a square baler and just load it as they come out

[@MrDrejones34]

Buddy strong asf he tossing them joints 😂

[@prgx52]

they weigh 3 pounds max

[@GMZ.-jm6yp]

@prgx52 that's a load of crap and you know it

[@FootballandFarms]

We need to get that! Our farm does everything by hand

[@boarderbrendon]

That's no debating that's hard work. Farmers are some of the hardest working people I've had the pleasure of being around. Good job gentlemen, it looks really nice, keep up the good work! (atta boy)

[@techristopher8077]

You have a loader. That's nice. I cut, tedded, raked, baled and hauled 225 bales a day by hand. Yes, I was whipped to a frazzle by night fall.

[@keegentilley578]

"Whipped to a frazel"? How old are you dude?

[@davidgerwin7885]

That is straw wheat stubble. Those bales weigh 35 to 40 pounds.

[@robertlee4809]

​@@keegentilley578He's old enough to understand what that phrase means. As well as me....and I'm 55 and worked on a farm for 20 years growing up. Worked to a frazzle is almost as bad as being "drove". Me and a friend from West Texas helped a family member buck bales for a week once....we actually started to use the term "worked to a frazzle" but it wasn't enough. "Feel like I've been driven like a herd of cattle..." So, we coined the phrase "Man, I feel drove...". You didn't ask for an explanation but there you go. I'm old and don't care...😊

[@superkas]

Always love the efficiency of American farming

[@uli98382]

Coooool...i know WE do it almost Like you Guys...and Mark my words.... This years WE gonna get toooooooo much bakes

[@uli98382]

Bakes..donto the Hit weather WE will get...😮😊❤❤❤❤❤

[@kennethwoolever5054]

We didn't have the bail pickup I was the guy on the ground throwing onto the wagon, and our trailer would hold 300 bails

[@trufuel9054]

We had a school bus that was converted to a trailer could hold 450 it stacked 8 high😅

[@jacqueslemiere]

i drove the tractor and threw the bails@@trufuel9054

[@bobbydee1187]

@@patriciacole8773at 64 I have found out that there really Not as good as they used to be .

[@ajaaoka6364]

Growing up with a rear kicker on our bailer, I watch this and am immediately grateful my grandfather refused to spend days picking up bails instead of grabbing it all in one go. One man, one field, one wagon at a time straight from cut to the loft

[@PhillipDavis830]

The farmer in my area did the same thing. I don't know why more people don't use a kicker. One man bales, another picks up the full wagon and drips off an empty one.

[@austint7533]

Them some badass dudes right there. Stacking hay is no joke

[@michaeloliver5190]

It's not hay. It's straw, lighter bales.

[@brandonnixon5251]

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

[@JasonGilbert-yl8hf]

I use to do this in shorts and no shirt... miss those days!

[@dougswick2648]

That’s how i made spending money when i was younger good luck finding someone to help you now

[@Charles-64]

Country kids 😊

[@Vol2169]

Same here. Spring cut again for fall cut. Mowed yards and worked in tobacco (hated lol) in between. The guys I worked for say it is hard to find kids willing to work now days.

[@BravoGolf-vw4ec]

Seven cents a bail for us back in the early eighties

[@jackass9989]

This reminds me of the time I worked on a farm for a bit. Gave me a whole new respect and understanding of being on a farm working it

[@Baronstone]

If you're putting up 26,000 bales per harvest, then you need to upgrade to an autoloader and stacker. That way a single person can operate the entire thing and you just have to take turns driving and then with the unloading.

[@Jasper-j2s]

It would probably even be worth getting a big baler of you're moving that many bales, either way unless this was done for views they need an upgrade

[@EmmettKnoll]

@@Jasper-j2sUsually little bales sell for mor than big bales that’s probably why they do it

[@bob-g2h]

No avoid automation. Stop taking jobs and start making jobs

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

You are wearing out your bodies doing it this way. Work smarter, use technology; save your body. @@bob-g2h

[@austinwilliams7919]

​@@bob-g2hyou can die out there in the heat, people who are working smarter, go farther. End of story.

[@felixk1843]

Incoming people saying ,,tHaTs a ReAl mAn, hE doEsnT nEeD nO fanCy GyM"

[@jwfinley7808]

Im happy we used a bail wagon. It picked them up and sorted them and hauled them to the shed! That's Old School.

[@dennisreeve8859]

Back in high school, Illinois in the 60s, we'd get paid a penny a bale in the loft! I never appreciated farmers till we worked together! Good people, hard work and great food!

[@prgx52]

you never lived in Illinois in the '60s, we were draft dodging in Canada, remember when you cuddled me that night in Toronto? can not believe you are randomly lying on the internet

[@hardrockminer-50]

We got 25 cents in the loft in 1987.

[@Goose.1.]

Mini wheats before they’re frosted:

[@andypanda2357]

Beautiful work! Keep it rolling smooth.

[@kirstenyenger9544]

When my folks passed away, I had 14 of my friends show up to help us bale hay. My boyfriend was with a crew in 1 field and I was with the other. Some had never baled hay before. I had to draw a picture on the hay wagon how to stack the bales. My buddy was driving our 1936 John Deere A, and kind of hit the side of the barn pulling 2 wagons of hay - he wasn't used to the hand clutch, lol. It meant so much to me my friends did this. I'm from southeast Iowa.

[@RebeLeigh]

Been there done that without the loader. You're out there in the heat covered in hay and hustling to keep up. One of the toughest jobs out there. My back is literally destroyed so I can't do it anymore but I sure miss the whole process of cutting,mowing,bailing ,loading and putting up. The good old days!

[@Steven-v7y]

Like many others here commenting, I remember walking along the truck and trailer picking up 80 lb bales and tossing them up to the stacker.

[@justinriley8651]

you don't see to many 80lb bales! usually 40s.

[@Steven-v7y]

@justinriley8651I don't know what bales weigh today. But back in the 60s, we were throwing 80lb bales..

[@robertlee4809]

​@@justinriley8651We were also slinging 80lb bales.

[@robertdahle7216]

​@@justinriley8651Let's draw bales not green hay bales

[@TestBeta2656]

I wish we had something like that when collecting hay

[@stogash]

No joke that's cool as hell man good work boys

[@dedrakuhn6103]

Our family did 4,734 small square bales in 1984 with a 273 new holland hayliner. Hand stacked and used a bale fork that held 8 small square bales to get them in the barn. The rope was tied to a C- Farmall tractor. It took 7 people to make hay.

[@Sunshine-ms8ce]

I love smelling fresh bales hay, makes me think of growing up back home on a farm .😊

[@nathanmeece9794]

We didn't have a loader. We picked up the bales by hand and threw them on the trailer while walking beside trailer

[@carlfalt174]

This is why round balers were invented

[@Hehe-sc7hj]

Or just big sqaure bales

[@oleggrishchuk739]

Hay making is my favorite part of the season. I miss doing this stuff!

[@tdolan500]

Funny it was my least favourite. We would make hay every few years as a bit of a novelty because we mainly worked with round bale silage. I’d try to sell as much as I could in the field so I wouldn’t have to lift them. String was hell on your hands.

[@olderthandirt7061]

Awesome set up. I spent my youth hauling hay from late spring to fall. We usually had a three to four person crew. I was stacker because I could stack more hay on the tailer (and it not fall off on the way to the barn) than any one else. It was a LOT of work but fun too. The ride from the hay field to the barn was a "po' folks" roller coaster because the load would sway as the trailer crossed the terraces. Thanks for the memories.

[@Markus-s2v]

My grandpa, who was a farmer, once said that people who could afford the expensive machinery, didn't need to farm in the first place, they did it for hobby.

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

I was always on the crew inside the barn. It would come up a conveyor belt driven by the back wheel of an International Scout truck. It had a PTO rig to connect to anything needing driven. At least outside you had fresh air. Inside the barn loft was so dusty and filthy and we had no mask of course. We tied a bandanna like bank robbers and that was it. You'd blow your nose and black shit flew out. God, what were we thinking!

[@deepsleep7822]

Same here, except we switched every so often. No air in the barn and the dust just hung in the air.

[@coxx420]

This was my whole childhood! I wish this was still the main way kids need it.

[@richardryan2769]

That’ll get you muscled up.

[@Mulletman11278]

This is exactly why we have round bales in so we can just pick them up with the tractor

[@lindsay264]

Loved delivering hay when I was a little girl!! Farm life is the best life❤️

[@robertvanderlinden2813]

Buy a Automatic Bale loader already

[@catherinemartin4702]

Buy a stfu.. we know how to work round here 😂

[@joeycabral11]

Stacking bay in the mow using the hay stitch of the alternating corner pattern. Old school but never goes out of style

[@johnwarwick4105]

You do 26000 bales like it still 1970, over 100 trailer loads all moved 3 time by hand ( loaded, unloaded and stacked) sounds crazy or just a KZbin exaggeration to me 🤷‍♂️

[@dickdangles3453]

I guess that’s why they call them “ idiot cubes”……😂

[@paxundpeace9970]

This is how those videos are. We are farming this #farmer Never talking about the 15 or even 30 #farmworkers doing this the entire season

[@Dave99117]

My first thought was she was saying 26,000 pounds which would be 250 bales at 104 pounds each. If she was talking bales, that’s 104 loads.

[@casematecardinal]

This brings me back. It wasnt bails but fertilizer, mulch, and sand bags. Good ole days.

[@jakoatmon1]

I did this as a 12 year old kid . We bailed about 400 bails of alphalpha a day 6 days a week and then put them all in the top of a huge barn.itll definitely get you into shape quick

[@rodneyswearingen1020]

Did this my self for 4 years to make a living. Wish i could walk good enough to do it one more time. Life was good in those days.

[@calemcmullen2007]

How to haul by hand: Use equipment, then stack with hands

[@smorgishborg7789]

That’s a neat contraption, I was the loader struggling to throw bales onto the trailer while other people stacked 😂

[@chuckbeasley7218]

Stacking in the barn loft was always the hard part

[@prgx52]

wow, your barn had a loft? brag more please

[@nmelkhunter1]

I’ve done this but walking along side a goose neck trailer and always wore long sleeves. When our neighbor expanded his operations and bought a New Holland bale wagon, I thought I had died and gone to heaven the first time I ran it!

[@TheWillingCoyote]

I worked at a 600 head cattle breeding ranch in CO during the 80s. We had an automated baling wagon. The driver would travel down the row at 25 mph to pick up the bales off the field. The automated bale wagon would stack, index, rotate, and palletize as it pushes the load back like loading a magazine. Once full, he would drive at 55 mph down the highway, and back up into one of the pole barns. He would then just pushes a button and all the bales are pushed out as one 132 bale palletized load. One person, one vehicle, one load/hour, stacked in the pole barn, with not even one bale ever touched. We'd see the neighboring ranchers needing four guys, and would have to re-stack at the pole barn.

[@wolvenar]

I remember doing this as a kid. I would volunteer to do this every year with the farmer neighbor.

[@FredD63]

I remember walking next to the trailer and throwing bales up onto the trailer to another person stacking the trailer then we got to go unload it

[@Paiadakine]

Helped my buddy pickup bales like this and hoist them up in the barn. That was hard work. These farmers are tough as nails.

[@jonmaclaine3342]

Damn we just walked 500 acres and loaded them by hand…

[@expressbirch6239]

I’ll give it to ya, you make stacking hay sound like building a rocket.

[@LT-hg7fc]

This brings back memories from the 80’s’

[@Government-EconomicsTeacher]

Free workout. I used to work at FedEx managing night ops and we had one package handler (not my shift) who had like a solid 9-5 type job during the day (can't remember but I remembering thinking he doesn't need this hourly job). My colleague who managed his shift asked him why he is working this low paying job when he makes so much more at his day job (this was the preload shift so like 3-6 or whatever). He said "well hey Id be going to the gum every morning for two hrs giving my money to them. This way I still get my same workout but you guys pay me." Now that's some efficient thinking. Don't know what he used the extra money for but it's smart. He could used that money for investments and get himself set up nicely. He was a good worker. Hope things worked out for him wherever he is.

[@cameronknoechel9767]

I used to throw hay when I was in highschool and after I was always great full that was my first job. It made everything else seem easy. They are handling straw in the vid. It weighs I'm guessing 40lbs a bail and hey around 50-60 the farm I worked on also bailed soy Beans they weigh somewhere between 70 and 80lbs and dusty. Soy beans also have very thick sharp stalks that stick out and poke you, my wrists would be bloody at the end of the day. We also didn't wear gloves, we called those puss mitts. After working like a man for a few weeks you're hands would toughen up and get calluses. Ahh great memories, my first day I was 12 my dad dropped me off and told them if he earns it pay him if not don't. I'm proud to say I got paid. My 3rd year I was promoted to stacker. I know I sound like an old fart but I'm only 40 I don't believe kids these days could hack it. I'm very proud to say I worked on a farm all through high school and after. It's an experience every American boy should have in my opinion. I think this country is in trouble and kids not working like I did at that age is just a very small part of what's wrong. God bless the U.S.A.

[@JanessaShepard-py3pm]

This is so cool! My family uses a bailer that hooks to the wagon, so we load the wagon while bailing. It's probably slower but works really well for us!

[@bluescorpion7]

Good honest work is so attractive. Keep it up guys

[@glorygracek.1841]

Man, that's a cool machine!

[@evanlis5260]

This seems like a fun job to do, I liked helping load customers vehicles when I worked at Menards!

[@slatecreations8193]

I miss running hay jobs with the buds in high school. It paid for every beer and pasture party we ever had

[@Contramundum-777]

I was raised on a small farm and every summer for years I would throw bales for all of the other farms in the area. Some of the best work of my life and great memories. The season end fire pit parties were great.