I remember when...

[LizStreithorst]

I drove for miles to pick up hay behind the baler and load it in my truck because it was $1.25 in the field and $1.50 from the barn.  I'd get 30 bales in my Toyota diesel, drive home, unload it into the loft and drive back for 30 more.  These days a bale costs $7.50 from the feed store and I get just 6 every day.  Thank God it goes in a shed rather than a loft.  Stacking 6 bales in the shed is enough for me.  Muscling 30 of them into the hayloft, then climbing in to stack them would kill me.

[BallAquatics]

Yep, I can remember wrestling around 75# bales myself.  Made lots more money than collecting pop bottles along the road though.

Dennis

[Mugwump]

I drove for miles to pick up hay behind the baler and load it in my truck because it was $1.25 in the field and $1.50 from the barn.  I'd get 30 bales in my Toyota diesel, drive home, unload it into the loft and drive back for 30 more.  These days a bale costs $7.50 from the feed store and I get just 6 every day.  Thank God it goes in a shed rather than a loft.  Stacking 6 bales in the shed is enough for me.  Muscling 30 of them into the hayloft, then climbing in to stack them would kill me.

I remember going out to friends farm to swing on the bale hook, on a rope, used to pull em up to the loft.....wheeeeee....

[Barb]

Liz, you make me feel weak, but I do lift 25# blocks of clay, that is enough.
Barb