Friday, February 7, 2025

Hay Wagon

Hay wagon filled with hay in front of a barn door

Early Fall brings its own special chores. Loading hay into the hayloft makes for great pics of farm life but it is a chore loading it in. In recent years, we've tried picking it up ourselves at a local farm in the pickup. I noted on several occasions that when we loaded the truck we got about 22 bails of hay stacked in. Then, after it was strapped in place it looked like a spider web around the truck. When the "real" farmers at the hay field loaded it, we got about 10 more bales stacked in, and it was so neat and tidy we barely had to tie it to keep it in place! Thank goodness for the conveyer belt!