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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