For some old farm boys...
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07/22/20 06:46 PM
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For any of you old farm boys who grew up with a sling track in the peak of the barn and maybe an old hay loader retired in the back end of the pasture. I remember my dad and grandpa talking about it but never really saw a video of how it was done, so here's a good one! If you're not into this old stuff then don't waste your time. But it sure makes you realize how this is just one more thing our for fathers did the hard way years ago. I got a real kick out of the old coot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk0f72nc8r4
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07/22/20 07:32 PM
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Awesome.Best thing ive seen in a while.Thanks!!
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07/22/20 07:43 PM
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Thanks for sharing! Today a passed a large loader type tractor with 12 wheels. It was pulling a disk that took up one and a half lanes of the road. It could work up a long 80 in no time.
To Old U.S. Army 60-63 SGT.
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07/22/20 07:50 PM
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My grandfather had a cigar box full of arrow heads because he spent so many years looking at the ground while he plowed with a team of horses.
My parent's lived in New Holland PA when they were first married and rented a house from an old order Mennonite family. They became friends and when I was a kid, we would drive out to visit them a couple of times a year. As a kid 10 - 13 years old, I really had a lot of fun hanging out with the boys in the family for the day. (They had 15 kids) We farmed but they did everything a lot different.
I remember going fishing with them. Me and 50 Amish and Mennonite kids hanging out at the local pond. The older kids would remind the younger ones to "talk English" when I was around. I'd go back to being a kid again if they had a pill for that.
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-Ryan
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07/22/20 08:08 PM
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Our barn had the setup but I never saw it work. My Dad did. I threw hay bales for 1.75/hr when I was a kid. When kids started asking 3.00/hr that's when the big round balers came out. The main shaft bearings weren't beefy enough and a lot of them got hot and burned hayfields.
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07/22/20 09:06 PM
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Haying has always brought back a lot of memories for me. We baled most of hay on our farm, but for only 30 milkers and a few heifers it wasn't all that much. Maybe 3 k a year. I got my real initiation when I was 14 and went out to work for a guy who did custom baling for people along with his 600 or so acres he ran himself. Started at 1-1/2 cents per bale (whoopie!) His son always loaded, the other senior hired kid unloaded, so I was a mow mole along with another kid... This guy had the biggest baler new holland made back in the 70's and that dang thing really pounded out the bales and it never seemed to break down. Did 2200 bales in one day. That was our record. Got done stacking the last bales at about 10 at night. That was a day with a windy previous night so no dew and hot as heck. Was baling by 7:30 that morning. This guy sold a lot of his bales on box cars so they were longer than normal and freeking heavy! I think back to the days in the morning after milking, sitting in the kitchen while Pa and Eddie (the custom baler) would talk on the phone and discuss who would get me and when for the day... It was something to hear, two stubborn old German guys bartering over my work schedule for the day... I had zero say in the matter! Look how tough it made you though.
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07/22/20 09:23 PM
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Everything was small square bales by the time I was old enough to day wage for any of the neighbors and before big round bales became popular. I kept busy every summer with that and punching cows or selling fur in the off season.
Yeah- I had a great childhood and because I worked hard and had some skills all of these ol farmers and ranchers trusted me to take their daughters out on weekends. At least the dumbest of the daughters who thought cowboys were cool anyway LOL
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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