The Hardest Part of Bailing Hay With a Friend

[MossRoad]

And to be clear, the 40 year old was carrying two at a time in the barn and was the one climbing up and down the stack to the ceiling. I was lucky to get the bales to the 5th level. He could toss them like a basketball much higher.

 

[Hay Dude]

Hay baling is “fun” when you don’t have to make a living doing it, retirement hobby, weekend pastime, etc.
I still enjoy it, but the pressures of having to make massive amounts of hay begin to chip away at the fun. So do the untimely breakdowns right when the hay is perfect for feeding the cows.
My wife is down on the boat and I’m getting ready to tedder…… nuff said.

 

[MossRoad]

One of the customers and the ride home.

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[MossRoad]

Hay baling is “fun” when you don’t have to make a living doing it, retirement hobby, weekend pastime, etc.
I still enjoy it, but the pressures of having to make massive amounts of hay begin to chip away at the fun. So do the untimely breakdowns right when the hay is perfect for feeding the cows.

As we‘ve discussed in the past, that why I don’t attempt to own my own business, and choose to work for those that do. Too much stress. I’m fortunate to have a skill set where I’ll never be unemployed and am grateful for that.

 

[Willman]

I’ll never forget hand stacking bales in the haymow when it was around 110 degrees up there

 

[Hay Dude]

I’ll never forget hand stacking bales in the haymow when it was around 110 degrees up there

You know I agree and we wait until dark to stack them. Really helps a lot.
Anyone stacking bales at 2-3PM in the heat of the afternoon deserves what they get.

 

[MossRoad]

One other humorous item:

Got home and still smelled hay. It’s a pleasant smell, but I needed a shower. Brushed as much hay dust off of my clothes and went in to take a shower. Still smelled hay. Took my clothes off and saw hay dust falling, so disrobed on the bathmat to contain it and took my shower. Still smelled hay. Figured it was the clothes, so bundled everything up and took it to the laundry. Came upstairs and still smelled hay. Asked my wife if I still smelled like hay. She said no, but I still smelled it. Then it occurred to me…

I dug out several large hay-boogers from my nostrils and that did the trick!

 

[ultrarunner]

You are the man... I can't do the lifting and stacking and find without a respirator sinuses go crazy.

Was not always that way...

I have noticed it is offer short and stout gets the work done... tall and lanky not as much.

The farm was lose hay blown into the loft as a kid... zero heavy lifting.

Now round bails where the tractor does the lifting.

 

[MossRoad]

First 60 seconds in the barn and I was sneezing repeatedly. It calmed down shortly after.

Probably wasn’t a good idea to eat half of a large sub sandwich before I started, either.

 

[turnkey4099]

Balance is lost with age.

There is actually a "performance chart" that goes along with ones age, and how long one can balance on one foot with eyes closed.

I tried the test, according to the chart, I'm 243 years old ;-)

I was coming up on my 87th birthday when a home health nurse visited and put me through that test. I went over to the vinyl section to have firm footing and almost lost it in the firs 10 seconds but after that was stable. She finally told me "you can quit now"