Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
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we hated the farmers that bailed so tight that the bales were closer to 80 lbs. than 60, but we hauled their stuff just the same
I bucked hundreds of tons of hay when I was a kid. We also hated the 80lb bales. But then they invented the bale wagon and bale weight jumped to as heavy as 120 sometimes. They were made to be stacked by machine but they sure weren't fed by machine. Those things were responsible for lots of back injuries. Now they have the ton bales which save the backs. They're so big that they can only be handled by machine so nobody has to wrestle them.


I had a great Uncle that wanted to save twine so he set the baler up to 75# and expected us kids to wrestle them around. Dad found out about it and told him if he didn't lighten the bales he would not send his kids over to help.

My kids were fortunate, for several years I baled everything with a kicker baler. Later I bought a round baler but still use a kicker baler for a supply of small bales to feed out flakes to horses and to take with us on overnight camping and rides with the horses.

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