How many have made spending money doing this?

[J&D Cattle]

I believe I'd have cussed him anyway cause I know exactly what type attic hole you are talking about and I'm sure you weren't doing it in the winter either.

Should have, got paid but in peaches rather than dollars. Quite a guy.

 

[cmf1]

Yep, mid 70's high school. Me and two other guys split a quarter a bale.
Missed it when it was done.

 

[bigbull338]

i remember hauling square bales all summer.me an buddy spent the summer hauling hay for his cousin.the work was hard an the days was long.we would work from 5am some days till midnite.on a good day we could haul 400 or 500 bales depending on when an how fast he would bale.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Why would you do this to me, I have been trying to get over the abuse I took as forced labor.
I often wonder how many times I have been stung by red wasp in my life putting it in the barn.

 

[greybeard]

I believe I'd have cussed him anyway cause I know exactly what type attic hole you are talking about and I'm sure you weren't doing it in the winter either.

Should have, got paid but in peaches rather than dollars. Quite a guy.

You hauled hay for my Father?

 

[J&D Cattle]

I believe I'd have cussed him anyway cause I know exactly what type attic hole you are talking about and I'm sure you weren't doing it in the winter either.

Should have, got paid but in peaches rather than dollars. Quite a guy.

You hauled hay for my Father?

I doubt it but it sounds like they would have made a pair. :lol2:

 

[backhoeboogie]

When they started paying a dime a bale, I thought I was gonna get rich.

 

[Ryder]

Did you get bear caught?

Terribly hot in top of barn with no air flowing through.
You sweat out more water than you can drink.
That's when those bears come out of hibernation and they are mean. I've seen them back good men down. I don't think many left today that would do it--not with the welfare office open in town.

 

[larryshoat]

Why would you do this to me, I have been trying to get over the abuse I took as forced labor.
I often wonder how many times I have been stung by red wasp in my life putting it in the barn.

Around here the first week in July them wasp get dang mean. I'd always go out at night and spray paint their nest, a little bit of paint stops em.

Larry

 

[greybeard]

There'd be lots of polka dot barns, houses, tractors and farm implements if they spray painted every red wasp nest around here.

 

[jasonleonard]

I think that whoever invented the round baler sure has a special place in heaven! I dang sure wouldn't be wintering too many cows here in Pa if it wasn't for my round baler!

 

[R.T.]

1960 years, using my dad's 1949 ford pickup, buddy and I hauled hay after school and weekends.
We were making more money than ever before. Just think 5 cents a bale easy money. We followed
a custom baler always had more to haul than we could handle. Wish I still had the knees to still do it.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

I believe I'd have cussed him anyway cause I know exactly what type attic hole you are talking about and I'm sure you weren't doing it in the winter either.

Should have, got paid but in peaches rather than dollars. Quite a guy.

I got a piece of Longhorn Cheddar, a sheet cracker, and a Coke.

 

[HDRider]

Oh man. Makes me hot, sweaty and itch just thinking about. Thought I was going to suffocate in the barn loft a few times.

I remember once when my buddy got stung a bunch of times when we threw down on some kind of mean bumble bee living in the ground. I could run faster than him.

 

[danl]

Its been a long time since I did that. We put 50 bales in the back of a long wheel base pickup, tailgate down, if you arranged them right. The last few that tied the load together were pretty tough, then came the barn loft...

I never got to haul much straw, just too heavy fescue bales where it felt like the strings were gonna cut your fingers off.

 

[Caustic Burno]

1960 years, using my dad's 1949 ford pickup, buddy and I hauled hay after school and weekends.
We were making more money than ever before. Just think 5 cents a bale easy money. We followed
a custom baler always had more to haul than we could handle. Wish I still had the knees to still do it.

I also used a 1957 3/4 ton Chevy Apache with a granny gear you could tie the wheel off and walk beside it.
That will make me have nightmares tonight just thinking about it.

 

[Deepsouth]

I remember the first round bales that I ever saw. A buddy of mine looked at them and said " one day we'll tell our kids that we use to pick hay bales up with our hands and throw them onto a truck and they won't believe us." He was pretty dang close to being right.

 

[Calman]

My dad had a 2 ton 48 dodge hay truck.He would line it up between the rows and set the throttle and put it in granny gear I would sit on a ammo box so I could steer it. I was about 7 yr old.

Cal

 

[denvermartinfarms]

My dad had a 2 ton 48 dodge hay truck.He would line it up between the rows and set the throttle and put it in granny gear I would sit on a ammo box so I could steer it. I was about 7 yr old.

Cal

Was it a cabover with a flathead engine?

 

[Calman]

My dad had a 2 ton 48 dodge hay truck.He would line it up between the rows and set the throttle and put it in granny gear I would sit on a ammo box so I could steer it. I was about 7 yr old.

Cal

Was it a cabover with a flathead engine?

Only thing I can remember was it was green and black and I think it was what they called a stub nose back then.
It had a hood about half as long and part of the engine was back in the cab.

Cal