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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:07 PM
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For DUers younger than 50, what is this?
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:10 PM
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1. A stack of haybales, probably alfalfa, and a haybale elevator
Never really had access to an elevator as a kid but I did bale hay every summer until I was 18.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:13 PM
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2. Stacking bales was some of the best exercise of my teens
Thanks pops for working me hard.

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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 11:56 AM
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35. Yep. Nothing like an afternoon in the hayloft...
to work up a sweat.

Now my dad was a cheapskate who bought second-hand machinery and fixed it up. So unlike my neighbors (for whom I worked regularly) we didn't have one of those nice "kick" bailers that launched the bail into the wagon.

We had to ride the rack (which was slick as ice between the worn-smooth planks and the loose hay) and stack the bales, ride the rack down to the barn and then stack them again in the hayloft. But at least we had an elevator (thanks, Dad).
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:13 PM
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3. That is a lot of hay bales.
My Grandparents had big hay field and baled a lot of hay.

The bales were about 30 lbs each, those bales look bigger.

I threw my share of hay bales each summer.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:14 PM
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4. If I remember correctly, the hay bales were about 75 pounds, the straw bales about 30 pounds
:hi:

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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:21 PM
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6. Grandpa liked smaller hay bales, easier to handle.
He was a old man, that is what he could handle.

We would load up the old Chevy truck with hay bales and feed the cattle.

I learned to drive very young.

We are talking a 1949 Chevy truck, no power steering.
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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:19 PM
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5. Aw hells, I'm 47 and I didn't know.
I thought it might be something you would find at an amusement park. :shrug:

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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:24 PM
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7. Looks like child abuse.





















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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:29 PM
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8. Not for farm kids.
That would be fun.

I almost got killed by a cow with really large horns, she came running at me.

I jumped the fence just in time.

Another time I was almost runover by the hay wagon when the hay bale I was sitting fall off.

Life on the farm.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:31 PM
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9. Nope. It was the best.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:36 PM
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12. Cute picture.
Life on the farm was great.

I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:34 PM
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11. Pshaw! They had a fancy-schmancy conveyer belt dohickey
We had to chuck em up on top of the truck then chuck 'em into the barn for even more fun.

Of course our fields weren't as big as Ptah's. :)

Good times.

:hi:
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:38 PM
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13. Hot and sweaty to.
It was fun.

City kids missed out a lot.

It wassn't only work on the farm.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:32 PM
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10. Hay!
It's HAY!!!!!!!


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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:58 PM
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14. When I was a kid a long, long time ago,
my cousins and I used to love to play amongst the hay bales in my grandpa's barn. You can make great forts with them.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:06 PM
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15. The hay barn was the best playground.
I like to read up there in the middle of the day after dinner.

I would open up both upper doors and it was very cool up there.

Jumping into a pile of hay is a lot of fun.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:14 PM
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16. Us country kids invented the roll in the hay.
:blush:

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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:26 PM
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17. Also the barn cats were fun.
I did manage to tame a few of them.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 11:58 AM
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36. My dad hated it when we did that...
Our hayloft was not lighted at all, and Dad would be walking around up there, only to plunge into one of our "forts" that we had built up there.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:30 PM
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18. It appears to be a very small Ptah...
Looks like fun!
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:33 PM
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19. Also looks like a bale in motion.
I just saw that.

Somebody is standing close to the edge.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:38 PM
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20. Looking to the west, I was.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:44 PM
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21. What a view.
My view was the start of the hill country, central Texas.

About 100 miles from Houston.

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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 10:08 PM
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32. There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.

But, maybe that's just me. :shrug:
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:14 PM
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22. I went "haying" once in my life. Everyone else was up in the barn while
I unloaded the tractor. I've never worked harder. I have great respect for farmers.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:16 PM
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23. You were better off outside.
Inside the barn it was hot, been there.

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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:40 PM
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24. I figured it must have been hot up there. Nevertheless I was covered from head
to toe with an itchy, sweatty rash. Thankfully these people lived on a river and I got to go for a swim as soon as I had finished.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:43 PM
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25. Try picking corn by hand.
My Grandparent grew a small field of corn for the cows and chickens.

Talk about itchy.

I would rather deal with hay.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:47 PM
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26. You want itch, do barley
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:50 PM
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27. I couldn't wait to take shower afterward.
That still was the worst job.

Moving the cow pies to the garden, now that was fun.

I won't go into detail.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:57 PM
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28. I first saw those round hay bales when I was 16 and I'm 44 now. So I would say
it would be people under the age of 30 who might have never seen a square bale. The farm I saw it on when I was 16 was a ranch that was ahead of its time.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:03 PM
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29. Does save a lot of labor.
I still think of hay in bales.

My aunt in the country still bales her hay and stores it in a big haybarn.

She uses it for her cattle and sales hay.
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ShenandoahAspen Donating Member (367 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:04 PM
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30. a reminder I need to get back to my FarmVille farm on Facebook. nt
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 10:08 PM
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31. A cassette tape.
Just like the other thread, only the were slightly bigger back then. :P
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 11:24 PM
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33. Those are children. Two, if my counting skills are still up to date.
It looks like they're about to go down that playground slide.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 11:56 PM
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34. 5 1/4" floppy disks. nt
Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 11:57 PM by valerief
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