Posted by JD Seller on August 27, 2014 at 20:13:33 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: My rant posted by kickinbull on August 27, 2014 at 12:45:15:
All during the 1980s we made 30-40K of small square bales each year. Filled all the hay storage I could find. My wife drove the tractor and I loaded the wagons. We had ten wagons. I could get 2500 bales on the wagons in a good afternoon. Then the next morning there was two older men that where "slow", they made spending money helping around farms. They where not good at stacking or anything like that but they could load the elevator and then throw the bales back to me to stack. I actually enjoyed being out in the hay field loading bales. My wife would laugh at me dancing a jig on the wagon.
By the time my middle sons where old enough to really be much help in hay I had stopped baling a lot. We would do maybe 5000 of hay and 1000 of straw. Then by the early 1990s I switched just about everything over to round bales. We might bale a wagon load a year for some sick livestock or small calf feed an that was it.
We baled small square bales last year for the Grand Daughters horses. They loaded all the bales themselves. They loaded the elevator and drug the bales to me to stack. This year they did all of the work. I just ran the baler and they did the rest. They are a little older and I made the bales weight maybe 40 lbs. They will put up maybe 1500 total. They are real proud of their "hay". When they go to horse rides they make sure and tell anyone that cares about how they baled the hay they brought along.
Learning that hard work does not "kill" you and that breaking a sweat is something kids benefit from learning. They will know later in life that sometimes you have to work hard for a little while to get things you might like. In my Grand Daughters case it is feed for their horses.
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