Any one else bale hay/straw like this?

Bruce from Can.

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Love to get them dang boots/socks off while ridding around on a hot day. Or am I alone on this one?
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I wear sandals to bale hay, the same ones I wear for hiking or for most jobs that don't require steel toes. They stay in place well and are a lot cooler than boots and the chaff falls out of them instead of piling up inside and filling my socks. I also wear nylon running shorts without pockets for the same reason, the chaff would fill up the pockets on my jeans and make a mess.
Zach
 
Ya I think it's just you. If the twine doesn't start like it should,I have to jump off fast and give it a tug.
 
You and my boss would make a good pair. He wears a sleeveless T shirt, shorts and open toe sandals. Takes the sandals off when he gets in the swather. Looks like a tourist.
 
No, I wear my western boots and tube socks at all times while doing farm work. But I did learn not to haul hay wearing jeans with holes in the knees. Had to throw away a good pair of socks that got full of hay chaff.
 
I Can't stand to go barefoot ! I wear a pair of moccasin style bedroom slippers!! Yes, work boots, (slip on's) stowed in the corner. Ya look comfy there Bruce.
 
Amish do .one guy was putting on preservative as he was walking barefoot on it wondered why he felt sick at the end of the day he also had the wife with a pair of vise grips pull part of the wagon out of his foot . i keepin my shoes on
 
Looks good to me. The only time of the year here in Florida that I wear jeans and boots ( except for work ) is January and February. The rest of the year it's shorts a tee shirt and sandals. Heck dressing up here this time of year is shorts a Columbia button up shirt and deck shoes :)
 
When I was working for the local seed company years ago and was spraying crops most of the summer there were many a day when I took my shoes and socks off. I didn't need my feet for anything other than the accelerator and brake pedal which was an air brake vehicle. It had a hand throttle that I could use but I kept my right hand free to run the boom controls. I drove a Row Cat that had a Blue Ford Tractor Cab on it. They had to change the name to something else because Caterpillar was going to sue them for using the word Row CAT.
Anyway you're not the only one to drive like this...
 
I do all hay work in light shorts, white t-shirt or tank top if really hot, and flip-flops. I dunno what is with all the heavy stuff in summer on some guys. Every year I go to Oakley and guys are walking around in full blue jeans and work boots. I would have heat stroke.
 

Nope...I'm usually in a pair of metatarsal boots,jeans,and a shirt. Yes it sweats me to death but hay eats me up too. I wear metatarsals because work buys them for us. I got use to wearing them years ago so I wear them outside work too. My grandfather always wore a tshirt with a long sleeve shirt on over the tshirt. I can remember it being 103 and he was still in his tshirt and long sleeve. He got sun burnt really bad in the late 1940's when he was in the army and he always wore a tshirt and long sleeve shirt after that. I don't see how he did it.
 
I am one of those t-shirt, full blue jeans and steel toe work boots all day. I have a neighbor that only wears shoes in winter, he was chopping hay one day and I was helping, he jumped out of cab to unhook wagon bare foot on hay stubble. I asked how the heck can you stand to do that he said you get use to it. Huh not me!
 
Not me!!! I am a full work boot, jeans and tee shirt fellow. Year round. In the winter I add a coat and insulated coveralls.

I am bare foot only in the shower. The rest of the time I have white socks on, even in bed.
 
No way boots t shirt long sleeve shirt felt hat . I wouldn't be caught dead in shorts outside either well if I was dead maybe but I would haunt the person that put me in short pants .
 
I spend most of the summer bare foot. I wear a pair of tennis shoes or rubber boots, depending on the temp, if I'm cutting wood or running the dogs. But just mowing grass or walking around, it's shoeless. Wheat stubble is a little rough.

Larry
 
I wear boots almost all of the time, some boots knee high, literally. Not sure if Red Wing still make 18" linemen's boots anymore or not. I've got and use a couple of pair, just the same. But generally speaking, I also wear ankle highs a lot too. When I wear ankle highs, I tie them loosly while my legs are forward and wiggling around, at least two eyelets from the top. Is that as comfortable as your photos? Heck no, but is I have to bale, or choose to bale, I have yet to have a corn stock impale the flat of my foot. To each, his or her own, and I would never dream of telling you or anyone else what works for you, because I know that you wouldn't me either.

Work safe, work comfortable.

Mark
 
Bruce,

The first day I plowed with my New Holland 8670, it was 38 F outside. There was a strong wind from the north. What did I do?

I got my seat position all nice and comfy, took off my carrhart barn coat, my sweat shirt, down to my T shirt... after about 25 minutes, off went my shoes!

I never, never, never NEVER did that before!

It felt really good to feel like I was in the in the livin room, in my socks and going through the field. It felt GREAT!


I did it once, then, back to business for me. For that time, I was king of the mountain.


I hope it felt good! Glad I wasn't the only one...


If my grand-dad was still around, he would have ripped us a new one for that, but he would have done it, and then felt so amazing. I juat wish he had that chance. God Bless our grandpas who walked behind the horses. They would have been so free and so happy. I wish my grandpa could have done this. He died, face down, in a manure spreader full of cow chit on new years eve in 1969. I wish he had this.

We are so lucky. I never forget!
 
I wear those 18 inch tall rubber boots most of the time, only thing I've found stands up to mud, manure and milkhouse detergents. I often slip them off when on the tractor. Over the years I've replaced the equipment I need to jump off the tractor to mess with every 2 minutes.
 
Glad you said western boots. Burns me to hear someone call my boots COWBOY boots.From my time in the west most real cowboys used a laceup type of boot for working cattle. Also my western hat is NOT a COWBOY hat.
 
second that ,,.shorts and low top shoe fella here ,my 1070 case is the only tractor I can kik my shoes off , nice for planting and tillage work , rarely wear long pants in summer time , cept when putting up hay , and then I wear sweats or bib overhauls,, blue jeans have a tendency to slide rite off my bakside since my waist is over 38 inches. didn't have a problem when it was 28 .i have a couple pair of mud boots and some steel toed work shoes,,, don't think I wore the work shoes in a yr ..
 

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