I know, I know, not in the LEAST BIT "T" related, but if you grew up on a farm, or got roped into pitching itchy bales for a neighbor on a sweaty summer day, you might enjoy this idyllic scene. It almost looks like fun.....
I hope the unidentified family got a copy!
Captioned "A farming family, 1956."
Great photo. I grew up using the same Farmall tractor raking hay and bailing it. Pulled many loads like that to stack in the barn. Thank you for the memory.
Great picture Dale, made me sneeze a few times looking at it! JD AuGres, Michigan
We had a C Chalmers but the chaf,sweat,and dust look the same.Bud.
Grew up throwing bales of hay and stacking them in a barn. I could do it all day now. Lol
Did the same but with Allis Chalmers equipment.
I think the H would handle wagon better than the B. I dont miss bailing,when I was younger the harder the work the better I liked it. Not so much now. I have some great memories of life on the farm. Thanks Dale.
I still live on a farm but the only time I touch hay is feeding in the winter. No sweat.
Dallas,i think it's a A on the wagon instead of a B?? I hope the kid driving was smooth on the clutch otherwise he would get a talking! Bud who is old enough to have put up loose hay.
just hope that one guy didn't set the hole works on fire.charley
I lived down the street from Mr. Packard's farm and across the street from his hay field. Mr. Packard did everything with draft horses (although I think he owned a big red IH Farmall 400 Tractor), Mr. Packard and I like Brat (a huge Belgian draft horse)) better than any farm tractor (or even a Model T) that I ever saw!!!!
When I was six or so Mr, Packard would put me on Brat and it was just sitting on the floor.
Happy motoring,
Warren
ps: I can close my eyes and still see and smell that sweet hay when we put it in the barn.
The bales that they are loading are from a twine tie baler. Twine was for sissies. We had a John Deere (runs like a deer- smells like a john) wire tie baler, and the bales were about twice as heavy as twine bales. I spent all of my childhood on a hay rack, behind the baler, loading bales 5-high. Hard work... hot...sweaty... dirty... but great memories.
Mike
Michael, tell us about that wire-tie baler and the era when you were using it. By the time I was big enough to buck bales wire tie was obsolete. (Mid 1960s). Weight of bales was adjustable by the length in my experience, also determined by hay type. In the picture, that grass hay was baled mighty loose, and would have been light. Different methods and different forage crops in different parts of the country. Alfalfa hay is heavy. Nowadays around here it's all big bales, 3'x4' or 4'x4' bales - half ton to a ton.
Michael, tell us about that wire-tie baler and the era when you were using it. By the time I was big enough to buck bales wire tie was obsolete. (Mid 1960s). Weight of bales was adjustable by the length in my experience, also determined by hay type. In the picture, that grass hay was baled mighty loose, and would have been light. Different methods and different forage crops in different parts of the country. Alfalfa hay is heavy. Nowadays around here it's all big bales, 3'x4' or 4'x4' bales - half ton to a ton.
That hay looks really over dried and them bails are very loose no mater what the grass was. Done more then enough haying, cutting/raking/bailing and stacking that I don't miss it. Mom would drive the tractor or truck, I would be on it and Dad would pickup and pass to me to stack. Brothers and Sisters would be ether rolling bails to line up or somewhere in the field.