Summer of '59 we put up a bunch of "local" hay (dad couldn't afford alfalfa that year, after the disastrous milk prices in '58) with a Dearborn sickle bar mower on an 8N Ford, then tag-along side delivery rake, then baled with a Case hand-tie baler. Cousin Fred drove the 8N, Dad "shoved the needle"- double channel units that were pushed through the bale with a spring-assisted handle, then wires threaded through. I tied the bales, riding on a seat right behind the hay pickup on right hand side. Cousin Jim walked along with a pitchfork to push hay into the chamber if the going got heavy, because all it had was a wide belt to carry hay in, no auger or fingers. I was 10, cousins were about 12 and 13. I drove the truck (International one ton, about '45 vintage) in the hayfield, because I was too little to buck bales. Many thousands of bales, went well into August, and the hay was pretty much straw by then. That was the beginning of the end for the dairy operation- hay was so poor the cows all but dried up that winter, and they got sold in the summer of '61. In retrospect, Dad said "I always wanted to farm in the worst way, and I expect we pretty much did."
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