The Funny Pic Thread, Pt. 8

[ghuns]

I've done that...ALWAYS on the hottest, humid days of the year.

I have slung thousands and thousands of bales, of both hay and straw.

Our barn is 40'x60'. From the hay loft floor to the peak of the roof was just under 50'. We filled that loft with hay/straw every summer.

I still have nightmares.

 

[actaeon277]

A picture almost got me.

INGO unfriendly word.

 

[spencer rifle]

Well, do your voodoo and clean it up and post it!

 

[Alamo]

You guys had it easy ...

Yarg!

 

[Dr.Midnight]

 

[rhino]

 

[Thor]

You guys had it easy ...

Those guys have it easy. The crew I worked with had older equipment that puked the bails out on the ground, the trailer followed along and it was my job to chuck them up on the trailer. At the time I thought it was fun, and they paid and fed me...

 

[actaeon277]

Well, do your voodoo and clean it up and post it!

I don't even remember what it was.
I just remember a watermark with ***** in it.

 

[patience0830]

Those guys have it easy. The crew I worked with had older equipment that puked the bails out on the ground, the trailer followed along and it was my job to chuck them up on the trailer. At the time I thought it was fun, and they paid and fed me...

We were stronger and more sunburned than we would have been otherwise. We learned that hard work paid money. Bought my first new gun and paid for a lot of dates on the $2 an hour I earned throwing hay bales. Sweated gallons of water and lemonade out and learned just how much of a manly man my dad and grandfather and their peers really were and had to be from watching them and hearing their stories. I miss the men I knew in those fields and it just got really dusty in here.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

We were stronger and more sunburned than we would have been otherwise. We learned that hard work paid money. Bought my first new gun and paid for a lot of dates on the $2 an hour I earned throwing hay bales. Sweated gallons of water and lemonade out and learned just how much of a manly man my dad and grandfather and their peers really were and had to be from watching them and hearing their stories. I miss the men I knew in those fields and it just got really dusty in here.

Much the same with me. I threw and stacked a lot of bales at $2.00 an hour, and I remember when I was 16 my "seniority" allowed me to keep my spot in the field stacking on the wagon and not in the barn loft. Saved up $300 to buy my first car, a 1966 Mustang (6 cylinder with a busted 3-speed transmission).

 

[patience0830]

Much the same with me. I threw and stacked a lot of bales at $2.00 an hour, and I remember when I was 16 my "seniority" allowed me to keep my spot in the field stacking on the wagon and not in the barn loft. Saved up $300 to buy my first car, a 1966 Mustang (6 cylinder with a busted 3-speed transmission).

"Seniority"? Just meant that you had to handle every bale. Not every other one, like the two guys throwing them to you. And you knew enough to stack things so they tied together and didn't fall off!
It WAS easier than walking though.

 

[target64]

Made .06 per bale, ended up with. 73 Fury III

 

[blurr95]

I got a roof over my head and food in my belly. And blisters, lots of blisters.

worth it.

Jason

 

[rhino]

Thinking about bailing hay and doing similar hard labor to live is reminding me to appreciate my life more.

 

[Phase2]

Might need a tune-up:

 

[Phase2]

 

[Phase2]

 

[spencer rifle]

But it's not black!

 

[Phase2]

If it was made from Himalayan salt, it would be pink.

 

[Alamo]

We were stronger and more sunburned than we would have been otherwise. We learned that hard work paid money. Bought my first new gun and paid for a lot of dates on the $2 an hour I earned throwing hay bales. Sweated gallons of water and lemonade out and learned just how much of a manly man my dad and grandfather and their peers really were and had to be from watching them and hearing their stories. I miss the men I knew in those fields and it just got really dusty in here.

$2/hr? You must have been in the haytosser's union. I got a $1. Said screw this and went to work at the BC State Park for...I think $2.50/hr to start with.