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dad cut hay an smely ol gramps raked some while dad fed cattle. i let ol smely tag along when i hald the fst load

dad loading some bales





darrel the man that bales the hay for dad.

Cool!!

Money in the bank, for later.

I spent a summer up north of Newport Washington loading hay bales by hand. 95 pound bales of alfalfa. My cousin and I put a thousand in the barn in a day.


Thank God for machines that load hay.

Used to stack hay in the barn from the field for folks.

25 cents a bale.

Pretty good money back then. Hard, hot work.

I did 1125 bales of sudex bales, with 3 other boys

Hand loaded, hand unloaded. Only grace was a conveyor.

Jackwad older boys pulling rank on the conveyor, loading the fugg out of it to log jam us in pigeon crap dust 110 degree barn.

Single biggest pay day for my 14 year old self; my career in slave labor. Got $60 for 12 hours work. 😃

Been there and done that, back in the 1960s. What a hot pain in the ass job that was.

Only did it once. Fast learner ( aint done it since ).
Couldnt now no matter what

Spent a lot of time on a hay truck, $.02 a bale in the mid 60's

As I said above, Dave and I put a thousand bales a day in the barn and they were 95 pound bales. This was 1977 we got 9 cents a bale. To split.
So for 12 hours of that I got 45 bucks.
But it was Cash! No deductions or taxes!

tankz ol smely aint so bad if you sta upwind gramps aint the sharpezed pin the diapir but he aint so bad juju seem to like him some

Good job Gilly, Keepin' that old timer busy will keep him out of trouble!

Did hay when I was a kid, if I ever stack another bale of hay it'll be to soon.

We got ten cents to stack in barn in 1970. We thought we were cutting a big hog in the ass. Gas was .20 a gallon. You could take a girl for a hamburger and to the show for 5 bucks or for 10.00 you could haul ass to the chicken ranch in La Grange for a sure thing. Lots of friendly girls there.


Damn. That was 50 years ago this summer. George Mitchell took good care of us boys that worked for him. He didn’t look like a Billionaire.

Ten cents a bale? What a capitalist, 7 years later we got 9 cents.

In my high school years, I was paid $20.00 for loading a semi truck and trailer. I would spend my summer vacation days, evenings in the spring and fall running a Harobed. Here is an ultimate trivia question, how did the word Harobed originate? In eastern Washington, we have seen the appearance of what I call the industrial hay growers. Most of alfalfa hay and Timothy they put up is exported. One of the larger operations puts up 27,000 acres each cutting. We normally see 5 to 6 cuttings of alfalfa per year and at least two cuttings of Timothy.

25 cents?!!!!!!!

1960-1966 Dad got 5 cents for twine or 8 cents for wire. 3 penny bonus when we took our own tractor to pull the trailer.

I was just a little tyke, driving the tractor. But I guarantee 50 bucks was a hell of a day for Dad. Never was a hayin' crew. Just Dad on the trailer and packing bales up the stack, and little old me trying to steer the tractor well enough that Dad could hook the bales while standing on the trailer.

My 14 y o granddaughter out working today with her dad.

Heavy hay Bob, what is it?

still watering here........

1st cut 2-3 weeks out

Coastal. I’ll find out what kind