I was working for my uncle. I’ll guesstimate the bales were about 70 lbs.
He ran a lot of cattle, owned a lot of land. My cousin runs it now.
It was real ‘Of Mice and Men’ stuff, but I didn’t even get a puppy. But I did get ketchup on my beans!
I have a photo of my Grandma Grace pitching a bale of hay into a pick up truck... one of these days I’ll get it scanned and post here..... she was not a big woman... wonderful photo.