A few pics from today’s square baling

[Hay Dude]

Thought Id share a few lawn mowin…..I mean large square baling pictures with y’all. Share some of yours, ifins you got any!

From the cab of my Case-IH MX-270….sorry about the dirty windows! It was 98* and very sunny.

In the middle picture you can see my son in the raking tractor.

 

[MoKelly]

Nice pictures. Nice job.

It great you get to work with your son! Doesn’t get much better.

MoKelly

 

[Hay Dude]

Nice pictures. Nice job.

It great you get to work with your son! Doesn’t get much better.

MoKelly

Thanks, Mo.
Yeah it’s fun to teach him something, but it’s a dying trade. Just wish it was a little safer and more prosperous
Probably why it’s dying

 

[fried1765]

Thanks, Mo.
Yeah it’s fun to teach him something, but it’s a dying trade. Just wish it was a little safer and more prosperous
Probably why it’s dying

My ignorance.......Why is it not safe?

 

[MossRoad]

Man, I can smell the hay from here.

 

[shooterdon]

Rings back memories ....

My dad had me live on a farm for two weeks when I was 12. Dairy farm during hay season. Long days

No conveyor and we built tiers to manually lift the bales up into the barn as high as we could.

 

[Mrsig]

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Thomas]

I do miss haying but in a way I don't must be age thing,

 

[Hay Dude]

My ignorance.......Why is it not safe?

It can get dicey when 2 tractors are passing nearby in fields (collision), connecting/disconnecting PTO shafts, hot/sharp metals, fall from baler, eye injuries, etc. I know a guy who fell off a square baler and broke his back. Plenty of families around here with dead sons or fathers.
Farming is incredibly dangerous career and sometimes I think I should quit.

 

[MoKelly]

US Bureau of Labor says farming is twice as dangerous as law enforcement and 5 times more dangerous than fire fighting.

MoKelly