Posted by Mike (WA) on June 19, 2011 at 08:57:41 from (69.10.196.29):
In Reply to: Paying Hay Help posted by low budget on June 18, 2011 at 04:33:49:
When I made hay in late '70's and early 80's, had the best deal ever. Local football coach was also a farmer. The football team members had to spend so many hours a week in the weight room at school- or show pay slips for working in the hay. So guys were lined up wanting to work, and because there was so much competition for jobs, you could be sure they'd bust their tails, too.
Now, we just buy a little for the ever dwindling horse herd, and its down to where wife, three grown kids and I can knock it out in one evening.
I worked for a neighbor in the '60's- all phases of haying. Started when I was 12, did 4 summers for him. $1.25 an hour plus lunch. Great guy to work for. He encouraged me to take out some of my pay by buying registered Angus heifers from him- he sold me pick of the herd for local auction sale price (even had the sale report out at the corral when we were going through them). I bought 1 or 2 a year, had 10 head by the time I graduated. Them, and summer work, put me through college. He was one in a million.
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