At 03:09 PM 4/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>At 11:04 AM 4/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hay making was a beautiful thing and then came bales and
>>baling machines (ugly and somewhat labor-intensive).
>>Modern methods of making big rolls of hay which lay about
>>fields for a while have made haying beautiful again. When
>>I see haying, my shutter finger gets itchy (my nose too).
>
>Hay making might have been a beautiful thing, but it was darned hard work and
>took a large crew of men. The bales and baling machines allow one man to put
>up the hay. I don't call that particularly labor intensive. Just requires
>expensive equipment as do the big rolls of hay. I intend to try to get up to
>Dufur, Oregon in August for the threshing bee. The do all that is possible
>the old fashioned way, with horses. Should be quite a photo session. Hot and
>dusty though. I, also remember getting the chaff down my neck.
>Paul in Portland OR
All I remember from all the farm kids I went to college with was that the ones
who tossed bales by hand had grips of iron and forearms thick as my legs.
These were the kind of kids who could crush full, unopened beer cans with their
hands (not that they would ever countenance such an extravagant waste of
precious fluids...). 8^>
Garth
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