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Just put 200 bales of straw in the top of the barn..Gonna sleep like a baby tonight... No lift so stand on the wagon and pitch up as many as I can without them falling back down then up the ladder, stack, and repeat. Translated to about 30 trips up and down the ladder. Nothing else goes up there til I pick up the lift that was given to me and install it and frame in some more floor space. Last 8 years or so heights really get to me if things aren't completely solid. Upper level in barn is gapped to allow air circulation........Sure understanding how cattle gaurds work now....
 
I cut, split, hauled and stacked 4 ricks of fire wood yesterday. (BEfore anyone ask's, a rick is Ky Hillbilly for half cord. 4'X 8' X 2' stack) That'll keep an old man on his side of the bed. :)
 
I hear ya.

I worked 10 hours at a basically sedentary job (clerking in a lumber yard/hardware store) and after work drove up the road to a farm and pulled 150 bales of hay off a kicker wagon, loaded them onto my truck and trailer, and drove them home.

Got home, set up the hay conveyor and my grandson and his buddy unloaded them and put them on the conveyor, I stood up in the hayloft and stacked them.

My Dad would have laughed himself silly at the condition I was in after a mere 150 bales. Heck, I would have too a few years ago, much less when I was a kid. 150 bales was just a warm up.

Not sure when or how I got so out of shape...
 
Straw would be a little easier. Some of that jap hay we put up weighed about 55 lbs. per bale. If people worked like that now they wouldn't need a membership to a gym.
 
One of my hay customers is a lady that is probably 40, weighs about 90 lbs. Before I started supplying her she used to put the picnic table against barn below loft door, put three bales from trailer onto table, climb on table, lift bales up into loft, climb up into loft, stack bales, repeat. Now I show up with elevator and 400 bales and her three teenaged sons help. I even get help on the wagon.
 
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