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flying belgian · Jan 15, 2011

Lady (40ish) calls for some hay this am. She and her new boyfriend will come get it after dinner. They come with his pu and trailer for 25 bales. I tell him to pull up under that little sliding door in the hay loft. He says are you going to drop them right on the trailer? Yes, it's only 8 feet down they will be alright. I throw the first one down so they can look at it. She likes it so they will take them. Then they both go to sit in the pu. I yell down someone has to stack them. So he gets back out and says he did not know they need to be stacked. I said how they going to fit if not stacked? Oh, ok. Then he asked if you can lift them by the strings? I said that is the only way you can lift them. I wish now I would have told him no to lifting by strings just to see how he would have done it. He was a real nice guy and I'm not making fun of him but I just thought that a 40 year old guy who lives with a rural horse owner maybe would have seen someone handle a bale of hay in their life.

Rusty wheel · Jan 15, 2011

Sounds like Emmas' X-Husband in the movie Murphys' Romance. Good movie. X-Husband a real looser.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jan 15, 2011

By the stings unless you had given him hay hooks upon which he would have wounded himself or ???

Sure · Jan 15, 2011

Sure,,, there are dumb people, --- but then --- dumber people,,,

GordoSD · Jan 15, 2011

Did the lady have both arms removed at the elbow? I don't have high hopes for that romance.

Gordo

1936 · Jan 15, 2011

Get the money.

paul · Jan 15, 2011

I can't use strings, just doesn't work right for me. I need hooks. I know I'm in the minority on that, but just don't know how anyone gets anywhere stacking by strings.

But that's beside your point, and I sure wouldn't hand th fella any hooks at that point either!

--->Paul

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2011

Now I remember why I got out of the hay business.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2011

obviously likes his hay ? with no strings attached.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2011

Bad part is, that guy probably makes a huge income. I have met some people that were very successful in their careers, but did not have the sense to get out of the rain.. Funny world we live in..

Erik Ks farmer · Jan 15, 2011

You have to love putting up hay to stay in the business, there are always a few of those every year. My all time favorite happened a couple years back, buyer came and wanted a couple bales in the back of his truck, I loaded them and sent him on his way...he returns a couple months later and wants me to pay for the dented rear corner panel that I hit with my loader. (which I of course did not)...needless to say I no longer load hay into pickup beds.

Ultradog MN · Jan 15, 2011

"I wish now I would have told him no to lifting by strings just to see how he would have done it."

I'm sitting here chuckling to myself wishing you had.

Paul from MI · Jan 15, 2011

Oh, I don't know. One of my future daughter-in-laws was a little confused about raking hay. She was down when we were getting ready to bale and my son told her to come, she could ride along while he raked. She thought we would be using garden rakes to put up 5 acres. Shes from the city, super good gal and I'm glad she married my son, but she had something to learn abou farming. Way smarter now!!

Tom in TN · Jan 15, 2011

Belgian,

This isn't about hay, but a 40+ year old friend of mine, his wife, and three sons came over to my farm a couple of years ago. I was running about 50 head of black Angus cattle at the time. They wanted to see the cows so we walked out into a pasture where the herd was.

The guy asked if I had a bull. Sure, says I, right over there. He puzzled over which head I was pointing to and finally said, "Oh, that one. I thought that all bulls had horns. I didn't see any horns, so I thought it was just another cow".

Tom in TN

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2011

First I would like to say I love the horse, when it is cooked just right. Second, I would not be concerned about if the hay fits in their trailer, I would be concerned about getting paid for it. My dad taught me, there are 2 kinds of horse owners, those that can not pay their bills, and those that will not be able to pay their bills in the future.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:04:51 01/15/11) thought we would be using garden rakes to put up 5 acres. !

Wife and I did just that 3 years ago and I have done an acre or each year since. Got all my stuff together now so minimum manual raking this year (I hope).

Dave

730 virgil · Jan 15, 2011

i bought some hay from a young man about 2 weeks ago. he told me you get all kinds buying hay one woman asked him if hay shouldn't be greener? she was looking for top quality alfalfa
he told her when she called it is grass hay .

Larry62 · Jan 15, 2011

Now that you mention it. I have heard people say that they thought only bulls have horns and cows don't. Never give it much thought till you said something about it. Was a bit funny how many don't know the difference. Thanks

Steven-Id · Jan 15, 2011

As a teenager I worked for my neighbor on his dairy farm. Obviously bull calves on a dairy farm aren't worth that much so they were sold off. Another neighbor (mother of 3 kids at that time) bought one of the bull calves. She was talking to the bosses daughter about the calf and the bosses daughter said you do realize that the calf you bought was a bull? The ladies response was "Oh that's OK all we want is something we can get a little milk out of."

Steven

2x4 · Jan 16, 2011

on this same theme I ran a herd of Highland cows & all the city people said "Nice bunch of bulls but where are your cows?" For those who don't know, all Highland cattle have horns unless they 've been dehorned.

WalJohn · Jan 16, 2011

(quoted from post at 21:11:19 01/15/11) Bad part is, that guy probably makes a huge income. I have met some people that were very successful in their careers, but did not have the sense to get out of the rain.. Funny world we live in..

Probably one of the people who used to have a high income. Paid someone to do everything, and now finds his economics require him to do them.

Harold Hubbard · Jan 16, 2011

My sister's boyfriend, 60 some years old, music professor/minister, could not get his mind around stacking wood. My sister stood over him for half an hour, instructing him, finally gave up and got the neighbors kids to stack it.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2011

They probably knew how to handle the bales but when buying from a guy named "Flying Belgian" they figured they would just stay out of the way and let you do your "Flying" thing.

dbernie · Jan 16, 2011

I believe it was Will Rogers that said,
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects".
If somebody can't figure that out, makes me wonder if they're ignorant on EVERY subject, or what their IQ is.
And they have a Driver's License?
Thought drivin' takes a little common sense as well.
OH well, I've done my share of learnin, and have a whole lot more learnin to do yet.

Maybe they thought you were so good,
you could just throw 'em in a stack.

Does make ya wonder 'bout folks...

fixerupper · Jan 16, 2011

Scott, I've gotta tell my dad that one. He'll get a kick out of it. Jim

Mike (WA) · Jan 16, 2011

Which reminds me of one of Dad's favorite stories- his sister from the city was out visiting, and he was telling her that he planned to buy a Milking Shorthorn bull. She looked at him, puzzled, and asked, "Ray, how can that be?"

El Toro · Jan 16, 2011

My neighbor has a PHD in math and when he called about having an alarm system installed in his house he was didn't like the price. His wife told me that her husband thought they would send someone out that didn't even finish high school to install it. So he bought a book and started the installation himself. When he drilled through the wall he hit a live electric wire. He had to get someone to finish the installation. About 5 years ago he decided to cut off a limb that was overhanging his property. His wife was holding the ladder and he used his electric chain saw. When the limb fell it swung around and hit his ladder. I was eating lunch and the phone rang and his wife said her husband was on the ground after falling 10 feet. I told her to call 911 and I ran over there. He wanted to get up, but I told him to stay down. He hit the 3/4 pipe on his neighbor's chain link fence when he fell. The EMT's had him flown to the shock trauma unit in Baltimore. He did survive after surgery and some rehab. Hitting that 3/4 pipe probably saved him from being killed. Hal

Big Irish · Jan 16, 2011

Just because your intelligent doesn't mean your smart. Or I should say have "common sense".

Bartt · Jan 16, 2011

Some people think having a degree makes them intelligent. You know rectal thermometers also have degress, and you know what they do with them. Have a goodun. Dick in Vermont.

JDseller · Jan 16, 2011

My wife was raised in a small town, but she had not been on many farms. I had cows on two different farms and the one had an old "boss" cow that had horns. My wife just could not get it that that cow was not a bull. LOL We still laugh about it yet today. I have several horned Herefords now that cause the city slickers to look at them funny.

JML755 · Jan 17, 2011

flying belgian et al,
been reading all the comments poking fun at someone who doesn't know how to handle hay and figure that the posters must think that we're all born with an innate sense of country "common sense". Maybe this IS the first time the guy has gotten near a bale. I'm 60 yrs old and been a "city slicker" who now owns a piece of ag property and learning every day. In fact, I learn a lot just from reading these forums. I also work with young adults who don't know as much as I do on a lot of subjects and am glad to educate them WITHOUT ridiculing them and find they are very appreciative.

Just saying, a little patience and understanding will make everyone's day brighter.

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