Putting up hay means several different jobs. Mowing or swathing, raking and baling could be done fairly comfortably with a light long sleeve shirt, blue jeans and leather boots. And gloves.
But for the real work of haying, bucking bales, I found that I did the best wearing a light colored long sleeved heavy sweat shirt, jeans, boots and gloves and, most important, leather chaps to protect the fronts of my thighs when I was using my knee to help lift bales. When we hauled hay, we would cool down with the hose between loads and usually stayed reasonably comfortable no matter how hot it was. I hated stacking in the top of the barn though--no air movement and WAY HOT. But it had to be done, so we did it.
A lot of the farmers I know today seldom touch the hay at all. Large round or huge square bales are too large to move by hand, so they are handled with large machines with air conditioned cabs. I don"t think it would make too much difference what a guy wore in one of those. I guess you could still get sunburned, which was one of the worst hazards of making hay when I was a kid.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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