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To: ShadowAce
I caught and stacked hay/straw bales as they were thrown to me while riding 10 high on a wagon begin pulled by a tractor--with NO safety harnesses!!

All the while breathing 100 degree dust...precious memories.

Kids today would have seizures requiring hospitalization just watching this on a video.

We had an IH Super H with a couple of home made wagons...what was your rig?

86 posted on 06/17/2015 9:36:46 AM PDT by BikerTrash
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To: BikerTrash
We had a 1949 Ford and a Case crank-start as the two tractors. Our hay wagon was homemade.

The one I fell from, though, was a friend's whom I was helping to get in his hay.

Our family didn't have a baler--we converted a horse-drawn hayrake to be used by the Ford, and raked the hay into rows, then forked it all up into the haywagon, and used a hayfork in the barn to pull it up into the loft.

We were pretty much a 19th-century family farm operating in the 1970's. :)

96 posted on 06/17/2015 10:47:19 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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