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I remember picking up, hauling and stacking bales, the 50+ pound rectangular ones, as a high school kid in the 60s.
When we got to the last bale in the field the farmer always said “that’s the one we’ve been looking for”
The good old days, a friend and I split a nickel per bale. On a good day, we’d make $20 or so each.
And at the end of the day the best farmer would hand us a couple beers and say, “ you boys have a good evening”
We were 15-17 years old at the time.
Suppose he’d go to prison today for giving us beer.
That sounds familiar. Except the part about the 50# bales and the 2 beers. Never learned to like picking up, loading and stacking those damn things.
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The best way I've found is to have a big enough crew and be the driver!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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Pulling in the last set after going hard, non-stop, for 20+ hours on a long liner feels pretty damn good.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Pulling in the last set after going hard, non-stop, for 20+ hours on a long liner feels pretty damn good. I bet it would. Especially if you had a good catch.
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We branded 500 and some yearlings at a neighbors place this year and you are right, when the guys pushing them into the tub and down the alley come in pop open that beer it makes you happy as a mud covered guy giving shots and ear tagging can get.
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We branded 500 and some yearlings at a neighbors place this year and you are right, when the guys pushing them into the tub and down the alley come in pop open that beer it makes you happy as a mud covered guy giving shots and ear tagging can get. Most we ever did in a day was right at a thousand calves in 2 different groups. Definitely nice to see that last drag of calves put into the lot for the guys to rope and drag out.
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I remember picking up, hauling and stacking bales, the 50+ pound rectangular ones, as a high school kid in the 60s.
When we got to the last bale in the field the farmer always said “that’s the one we’ve been looking for”
The good old days, a friend and I split a nickel per bale. On a good day, we’d make $20 or so each.
And at the end of the day the best farmer would hand us a couple beers and say, “ you boys have a good evening”
We were 15-17 years old at the time.
Suppose he’d go to prison today for giving us beer.
That one really brings back the memories. One farmer would drive up and say "you guys want a cool one" then he would hand us each a hot Raineer from behind the seat of his pickup. We were only 15-17 also, and looked around like somebody was going to see us! Truly the good old days.
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