Surprised myself this morning

JD Farmer

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I loaded these by myself this morning, all 214 in under 2hrs. Nice cool autumn day here after 3 days in a row of 90+ degree temps. Getting ready for the 2hr. Drive to deliver them. 67 years old doesn't feel so bad.


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Do you tarp a load like that or just strap down? Looks like you have done this a few times. Like your truck and trailer.
 
Only five high? Back in myyyyyy day, I stacked 80 pound bales nine high by myself at six years old!! :wink: :wink:

Nice load, and rig. Can I ask what you are getting for yours? I had five wagons still loaded from the fields, some first, some second and some third, even 60-75 twice-washed, weedy, grass crap that I was going to use for bedding, but one horse person wants them in the worst way, so who am I to question their choices.

I asked $3 per bale for a load of 90 nice first and 60 really nice second, after she told me this was the best hay she had seen all year. Then, the price seemed too much for her?!?!? If she wasn't the only daughter of my neighbor with whom I share many of the open acres here, I would be looking for at least $5, maybe even $7 right now. I am one of a few guys around here who got some first made on time and got it in dry, most, me included, had first waiting more than a month for dry weather.
 
You wouldn't have been so suppressed if that trailer wasn't so close to level with the barn. Stepping down is a lot easier the lifting up. LOL
 
Well back in MY day I could toss them 12 high, I just flicked them up there. (Double wink!) I am a year older than you and the kind of shape I am in now I am ashamed to say it would take me two hours to stack half that many bales. Back then we had a ww1 vet and another man the same age on our crew. They were in their upper 70s when we disbanded and went to rounds but both of them could still do a full day's work. I don't know how they did it.
 

Back in the 80's in my late teens Dad was still doing square bales for our feeder cows. I finally made Dad drive the tractor in the field, I would stack and had him hire some of my friends to load/unload. Now we had to back up a ramp into the barn with a wagon, none of this easy trailer stuff on level ground (wink).

Anyway, in the theme of some of the action movies of the 80's, one of my friends and I gave ourselves suitable hay hauling pseudo-names to go with the work. My friend was Rambale and I was Co-Hand the Barnbarian. LOL. Mike
 
That ford gonna pull all that or will you have to make 3 or 4 trips ;)

Thats pretty dang good JD . It will keep you young . Good Job
 
This reminds me of two occasions, 30 years ago (18 years old) I helped two brothers load a semi trailer flatbed with straw bales. They were in their late 30's and were sweating pretty good, I never broke a sweat and worked bale for bale with them. Now 30 years later, daughter borrowed 20 bales from her boyfriends dad and I returned them with his brother(20 years old) up in the barn, I threw them over my head to him and he couldn't get them away from the door fast enough, drove home to meet the daughter at the door, all she said was showing off a little were you!! The boy never seen anybody handle bales like that before and was amazed. I was out of breathe but so was he.
 
Nice looking hay and trailer.

Have you considered an accumulator grapple setup to ease the back work? I see a lot of kuhns accumulators being used.

We?ve got kicker wagons and a barn we can pull into and unload another day. I?ll probably move to an accumulator setup when I retire.

Bill
 

I have loads like that leave my fields. My customers pick up in the field for $6.00/bale first cut, $7.00 for second. I used to deliver until around age 62, when I started to get a sharp pain in my groin after around fifty bales while walking the wagon.
 

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