Hauling Hay In The 80s

rusty6

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This old picture of mine got a lot of "likes" on facebook so thought it might be of some interest here too. My uncles hauling hay bales in (I think) 1986. A hard way to make a living but they were used to it. Both long gone now but I think about them when I'm on the land they farmed.
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Great picture. I worked at the neighbors in the '60's, we used 2 hay trailers about like that with a JD 40 tractor. But we had a real high-ball operation- neighbor (age 21) on the ground, me (15) on the trailer, and neighbor's little sis (5) driving the tractor. Neighbor's mom fixed lunch for me every day, I could always tell by the look on Sis's face when she had a new Rick Nelson record to play for me on her little record player.
 
About like me last week getting up some square bales,baled with an old Oliver 62T baler pulled with an Allis Chalmers NF D15,hauled on a wagon pulled by a 60's model David Brown.
 
Back in the 60's and 70's we put up about 50 acres a cutting for my grandfather, on the flat ground we pulled the wagon behind a D-15 allis with a New Holland 273(the last baler we had) my grand father would hook to flat beds together and move the hay to the barn with a Massey 150.
 
Toward the end of Dad's hay growing in the early 60's he put up his oat hay in rows and rented the neighbors New Holland baler. The bales would be left in rows. Then we loaded them on the 54 Chevy flat bed. That was quite a job. Before that he would bring the hay shocks to the bailer with his buck rake mounted on his F12. I pitched so much hay into that bailer I thought my arms would fall off. The hay bales would be piled up behind the bailer, which made it so much easier to load the hay from the field. I still the remember the sound of the 4 cylinder Wisconson when too much hay was pitched in. Oh the memories. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 10:05:42 09/17/18) they appear to be old enough to have put hay up loose, and thought that loading those little square bales was a breeze by comparison.
They definitely knew the meaning, and the value, of hard work. Heating and cooking with wood took a lot of time and energy even though the wood grew for free on their land.
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(quoted from post at 08:26:02 09/18/18) They are dressed like it is winter?
Pretty much the way I have dressed the past few days. Temps in the 40s are not unusual for September. We can also hit up towards 80 so we get quite a range. Snow to the North of me already but not to stay.
 

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