[Wallace T.]

It's hard to imagine any President since Coolidge, Harry Truman excepted, who was such a humble man as to bale hay. Maybe it was the 1920s version of a photo op, but he had no airs about him. I can't imagine Obama doing farm work; he was smarter than Dukakis and Kerry, who looked like fools making appearances in areas outside their comfort zone. Reagan, Johnson, and the younger Bush didn't mind being seen in cowboy clothes on a ranch, but only in Reagan's case was it a hobby, rather than a photo op.

[rlmorel]

It wasn’t a photo op for him...it is what he did whenever he went back there, just went to work. He found something that grounded him in it.

They have pictures at Plymouth Notch of him wearing these outfits that were apparently common for farmers to wear, but today, they look completely ridiculous...and he wore them. It is like a big, baggy burlap looking frock, closed at the neck with a tie string like a baptist choir singer, with long puffy sleeves and a funny looking hat, but...that is what he wore when doing the work when cameras weren’t there, though they do have a picture of him.

I admire him greatly.

[Albion Wilde]

It's hard to imagine any President since Coolidge, Harry Truman excepted, who was such a humble man as to bale hay.

It isn't baling hay on a cousin's farm, but it is cutting wood overgrowth with a chain saw and clearing brush on their respective ranches:

Ronald Reagan:

George W. Bush

Sorry, couldn't find the photo of Barack Obama adjusting a window curtain at a homeless shelter. Must have been scrubbed from the web as fake news.