backhoeboogie
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greybeard":1n1dppv3 said:Lucky you.. I started doing the same thing at the same age.. I didn't get paid though (well, there was food on the table).Nesikep":1n1dppv3 said:msplmtneer":1n1dppv3 said:I started in the hayfields when I was 12 got paid .75 cents a hour paid for my school clothes :tiphat:
Lucky you indeed. Brother and I were talking a few weeks ago..reminiscing about hauling hay for 3 cents/bale in the mid '60s..we wuz in high cotton..all the baled up skunks, thorns, snakes and dusty low overhead haylofts we could stand.
Peanut hay. A bale of sticks and sand. The edges will eat you up. The bales are extremely heavy Cows will fight to get to it. Once they smell the hay, they'll jump coral fences or get hung up in them trying to get over. Just leave the gate at the road open; the cows are coming after you and trying to drag bales off.
When we hired out hauling grass hay, it was like taking a break.