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Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Pictures from the family album: Baling hay in Idaho, near Payette
Sitting here in the Lower Yakima Valley, that loos soooo very similar. Lots of new green growing in the wheat fields now, so haying will be good this year.
My wife has family in central Washington State. However, they now use the big round bales. I have played with bales of hay a time or two. Ain't it great living in the western U.S.
Drove a tractor (Farmall B & Cub) for a neighbor at age 12. $2 a day, 6 days a week, all summer. After the baling we then had to haul the hay to whoever was buying it. Kept me in good shape though.
In Maine I saw a tractor making the small squares then tossing them into a high sided wagon it was pulling, there were full wagons off to the side. What a labor saver! Down the road I saw a family with a loaded wagon using a conveyor belt to put the bales in the hay loft in a barn. From field to the barn looks a lot easier...
Growing up in the Seventies, we had a New Holland (I think that is what the one in the photo is) square baler that looked just like that one. I've cut, raked, hauled and stacked a lot of hay. Baling required a little more banjo wor. Now my brother and I use a round baler. Haying with square bails was and is hard work, but I'm proud to have done it.
Sitting here in the Lower Yakima Valley, that loos soooo very similar. Lots of new green growing in the wheat fields now, so haying will be good this year.
ReplyDeleteMy wife has family in central Washington State. However, they now use the big round bales. I have played with bales of hay a time or two. Ain't it great living in the western U.S.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post.
Paul L. Quandt
That brings back bad memories of my youth. I grew up on a hay farm in south Georgia.
ReplyDeleteDrove a tractor (Farmall B & Cub) for a neighbor at age 12. $2 a day, 6 days a week, all summer. After the baling we then had to haul the hay to whoever was buying it. Kept me in good shape though.
ReplyDeleteIn Maine I saw a tractor making the small squares then tossing them into a high sided wagon it was pulling, there were full wagons off to the side. What a labor saver!
ReplyDeleteDown the road I saw a family with a loaded wagon using a conveyor belt to put the bales in the hay loft in a barn.
From field to the barn looks a lot easier...
Growing up in the Seventies, we had a New Holland (I think that is what the one in the photo is) square baler that looked just like that one. I've cut, raked, hauled and stacked a lot of hay. Baling required a little more banjo wor. Now my brother and I use a round baler. Haying with square bails was and is hard work, but I'm proud to have done it.
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