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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:07 PM Original message |
For DUers younger than 50, what is this? |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. A stack of haybales, probably alfalfa, and a haybale elevator |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Stacking bales was some of the best exercise of my teens |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
35. Yep. Nothing like an afternoon in the hayloft... |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. That is a lot of hay bales. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. If I remember correctly, the hay bales were about 75 pounds, the straw bales about 30 pounds |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Grandpa liked smaller hay bales, easier to handle. |
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Pool Hall Ace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. Aw hells, I'm 47 and I didn't know. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. Looks like child abuse. |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Not for farm kids. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Nope. It was the best. |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Cute picture. |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Pshaw! They had a fancy-schmancy conveyer belt dohickey |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Hot and sweaty to. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. Hay! |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. When I was a kid a long, long time ago, |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 07:06 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The hay barn was the best playground. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 07:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Us country kids invented the roll in the hay. |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Also the barn cats were fun. |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #14 |
36. My dad hated it when we did that... |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. It appears to be a very small Ptah... |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Also looks like a bale in motion. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Looking to the west, I was. |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. What a view. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 10:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. There's a feeling I get when I look to the west |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
22. I went "haying" once in my life. Everyone else was up in the barn while |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. You were better off outside. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I figured it must have been hot up there. Nevertheless I was covered from head |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 08:43 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Try picking corn by hand. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. You want itch, do barley |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 08:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I couldn't wait to take shower afterward. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 08:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. I first saw those round hay bales when I was 16 and I'm 44 now. So I would say |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 09:03 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Does save a lot of labor. |
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ShenandoahAspen (367 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
30. a reminder I need to get back to my FarmVille farm on Facebook. nt |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
31. A cassette tape. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
33. Those are children. Two, if my counting skills are still up to date. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-11-09 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
34. 5 1/4" floppy disks. nt |
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