For DUers younger than 50, what is this?

[Ptah]

[sasquatch]

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.

[Ptah]

2. Stacking bales was some of the best exercise of my teens

Thanks pops for working me hard.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

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).

[texanwitch]

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.

[Ptah]

4. If I remember correctly, the hay bales were about 75 pounds, the straw bales about 30 pounds

:hi:

[texanwitch]

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.

[Pool Hall Ace]

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:

[Ikonoklast]

7. Looks like child abuse.

:hide:

[texanwitch]

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.

[Ptah]

9. Nope. It was the best.

[texanwitch]

12. Cute picture.

Life on the farm was great.

I wouldn't trade it for anything.

[Inchworm]

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:

[texanwitch]

13. Hot and sweaty to.

It was fun.

City kids missed out a lot.

It wassn't only work on the farm.

[Taverner]

10. Hay!

It's HAY!!!!!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

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.

[texanwitch]

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.

[Ptah]

16. Us country kids invented the roll in the hay.

:blush:

[texanwitch]

17. Also the barn cats were fun.

I did manage to tame a few of them.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

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.

[petronius]

18. It appears to be a very small Ptah...

Looks like fun!

[texanwitch]

19. Also looks like a bale in motion.

I just saw that.

Somebody is standing close to the edge.

[Ptah]

20. Looking to the west, I was.

[texanwitch]

21. What a view.

My view was the start of the hill country, central Texas.

About 100 miles from Houston.

[Arugula Latte]

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:

[applegrove]

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.

[texanwitch]

23. You were better off outside.

Inside the barn it was hot, been there.

[applegrove]

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.

[texanwitch]

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.

[Ptah]

26. You want itch, do barley

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[texanwitch]

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.

[applegrove]

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.

[texanwitch]

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.

[ShenandoahAspen]

30. a reminder I need to get back to my FarmVille farm on Facebook. nt

[bikebloke]

31. A cassette tape.

Just like the other thread, only the were slightly bigger back then. :P

[Bucky]

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.

[valerief]

34. 5 1/4" floppy disks. nt