Ford is coming out with a Cattle Feeder's Special, no seat, no steering wheel.

For the cattle feeder that has lost his rear, and doesn't know winch way to turn.

I probably need one of those.

Looking for hay now. Again.

Horse hay was a PIA again this year with our drought. Most folks were sold out by September (except for those holding onto some to sell at higher prices later on. I have no problem with that, BTW.) A friend of mine in Colorado hooked me up, so I paid him for 200 bales and picked up 100 of them a couple of weeks back. The paid-off Ford still does everything I ask of it (other than offer a comfy ride, that is...)

Nice high and tight load there.

Thanks, buddy, the girls are now 16 and 13 and they do a pretty fair job of it. These bales are a hair smaller than the last so they got off just a bit on the spacing, but it all traveled just fine. Shouldn't have to get the next load until Feb.

I feed mostly rounds, but we do get small squares to feed between rounds, and for the trailer.

The bales I got this summer were the lightest, fluffiest, bales ever. Not sure why, but most of the squares here are not baked like the hay I would get when I had to live in Kansas. That farmers bales were tight and hard. Didn’t need strapping.

I remember those square bale days.

I did a lot of that in my teens to make some extra coin. The gents I buy from these days say it's almost impossible to find kids who will buck bales. Damned shame I tell ya. When the timing is right we'll still go pick up out of the field; the wife puts it in 4-Low and first gear while the girls and I do the rest.

I think that I'm gonna be sick!

Yeah, yeah.

As you are aware, that’s just the start. Still needs to be unloaded and stacked.

BUT!......there’s beer and pizza at the end of it!