Re: Time to Stir The Pot

Posted by Hal/WA on January 13, 2005 at 18:36:59 from (148.65.0.200):

In Reply to: Time to Stir The Pot posted by Allan in NE on January 13, 2005 at 11:49:26:

The small square bales were hard, dusty, hot work, but it sure kept us in shape for football! I bucked bales every summer from the time I was 12 until I went to college. And the baled hay was a lot easier than dealing with loose hay. The only real bad job was stacking up to the rafters in a hot unventilated barn. Loose hay was a lot harder, unless machines were used One of my friend's father had a hay chopper that he used to put his loose hay in their barn. He had a hay rack on his tractor loader that allowed him to hardly touch the loose hay by hand at all, but that was the dustiest job I ever helped with.

I think my all time worst farm job was cleaning out an old chicken house. The manure was about 18 inches deep and had been there for at least 5 years. The people who bought the farm with that 20 by 40 chicken house wanted it cleaned out to use for storage. A buddy and I agreed to clean it out for, I think it was $50. We worked for over a week on the job, finding that the only way to get the manure broken up small enough to shovel was to pound at it with a pickaxe. It wasn't as hard as concrete, but it was darn hard! And dusty. And stinky..... We were about half done before we figured out that it was much easier and healthier if you soaked the manure down with a hose. We finally finished the job and the owner was very pleased, but we earned way less than $1 per hour--lousy wages even in 1968. We both learned something though. Don't agree to do a job unless you really know what that job is and how long it will take.

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