Those were the days, huh, Joe?!
You don’t see that much any more, not with those modern round balers these days.
Many a boy was made a man working the hay field.
Excellent.
The local (family) farms would hire kids to put up hay.
In retrospect, I think they were shoveling a few bucks to "poor" local kids. I wasn't aware that we were poor until I got into my 20's.
Anyway, it was a thrill to drive an old John Deere B with the hand clutch. Did anyone else stack the hay in the barn with secret passages and chambers that only we knew about?
Round bales are probably the result of a few kids getting their limbs caught in elevators with lawyers close behind. Progress, I suppose.