Posted by Mike (WA) on April 08, 2014 at 15:56:08 from (69.10.199.100):
In Reply to: OSHA on the farm posted by Notjustair on April 08, 2014 at 15:20:11:
I suppose they may have taken a dim view of a 10 year old kid, tying bales on a Case wire hand tie baler. I recall that my mother sure did. One morning, she thought that I was just too tired, and forbade Dad from waking me to go out with the crew. I woke up about 9, and was in a panic- I just had to get out there, they needed me!!! Mom took me out, and told Dad, "He's as crazy as you are."
I have a picture of that crew somewhere- 12 year old cousin driving the 8N, 13 year old cousin keeping the hay feed going with a pitchfork, 10 year old me tying the bales, and dad "pushing needle"- threading the wire through for me to tie.
All this was necessitated by the milk price crash of 1958- got down to about $4 per CWT, IIRC. We couldn't afford alfalfa, so made the grass hay. It was terrible hay, milk production went down the tubes, and in 2 years we were broke and the cows went down the road.
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