We don't need no stinkin baler!

[JethroB]

Nice video. I grew up with some farm girls like that. They could definitely hold their own with the boys. Friendly, hardworking, and could kick our butts if we crossed the line.

 

[Industrial Toys]

The barefoot part of it, suggests to me, she doesn't do that regularly. A cut hay field wouldn't be my first choice for walking barefoot anyway.

 

[stuckmotor]

To avoid cold showers one could put one of these on their tractor...

There was a tractor with one of those for sale on Tractor House several years back.

 

[ruffdog]

The barefoot part of it, suggests to me, she doesn't do that regularly. A cut hay field wouldn't be my first choice for walking barefoot anyway.

Even the older gal in the 2nd video was barefoot. You would catch me out there in that stubble barefoot either, but I know I'm a tenderfoot.

 

[JethroB]

The barefoot part of it, suggests to me, she doesn't do that regularly. A cut hay field wouldn't be my first choice for walking barefoot anyway.

Funny, I thought the opposite. As kids we were barefoot from April thru September. Tough feet by summer. Lots of merthiolate was used too.

 

[TractorGuy]

Heck I went to school barefoot in my early days.

I didn't fit in at all when my mama moved me to the city.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I too went barefoot all summer, even on construction sites. But wouldn't go through the stubble of a hay field. Farmer telling me a few weeks ago how he hates encountering thistles when choking his baler and having to pull the material out by hand. Wouldn't be nice to step on either! I remember that as a kid.

 

[Industrial Toys]

And you know all this for a fact?

For what it's worth. There are "pretty" farm girls with youtube channels that make far more than a small farmer could ever dream of.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I just got to thinking about the barefoot matter and how that makes little sense (to me). And I'm one that welds in nothing but crocks and shorts! I can take hot balls of molten steel in my shoes against bare skin, but you won't find me runnin barefoot in a just cut hay field.

 

[MossRoad]

And you know all this for a fact?

For what it's worth. There are "pretty" farm girls with youtube channels that make far more than a small farmer could ever dream of.

If you look at that youtube channel, you'll see that this was not a one-off video. There's a bunch of them.

When I was a kid, I went barefoot as often as possible. We all did. We lived on a gravel road, had a crushed limestone driveway, and we ran wild through the woods every day. All barefoot. Why? We didn't want to ruin our shoes! :laughing:

 

[bcp]

Haystacking with horses.



Bruce

 

[two_bit_score]

:thumbsup: I bet she doesn't have to be told to get her @ss out bed in the morning.

She was barefooted it looked like.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I would need the whole file on my desk and some time to go over it to know what's what in this case. I remain skepical, that things are not as they might appear..

 

[Jstpssng]

Their farm is in New Brunswick. This is their website; Updates | ScytheConnection


This longer video Hay in a Day - Part 2 - YouTube

goes through the process of cutting with a scythe and stacking it in the field to dry.

 

[TractorGuy]

Their farm is in New Brunswick. This is their website; Updates | ScytheConnection


This longer video Hay in a Day - Part 2 - YouTube

goes through the process of cutting with a scythe and stacking it in the field to dry.

Looks like Mama's working barefoot also. That one is about as exciting as watching paint dry though.


Here is another of my favorite haying videos to watch. Mowing Hay with Horses - YouTube

There is a guy near me that has been advertising one of these horse drawn sicklebar mowers for $950. Ad has been running a while.

 

[RalphVa]

That's the way they did it before balers. My grandpa Hall fell off one of those piles and broke his hip. Forever had a limp.

Next step was balers in place. Then moving balers.

Ralph