No more picking up in the field to load on a trailer and then unloading it to stack it in the barn. The bale is wrapped and dropped. A tractor with a front end loader with a spike spears the bale and it is either loaded on a flatbed to be hauled off or stacked 3 high along the fence row for storage. Square bale was at least a 2 man operation. WRB was faster, cleaner, and could be a 1 man operation.
As a young man I had large shoulders and 20" biceps which I somewhat maintained till my late 40's.
I got pretty daggum good with a 35 mm in the80s.. I don't think I could have gotten a shot of that hay that would have shown the character, the texture and charisma of that brave,lone bale,, She certainly must have gotten its Good side,, I can't imagine the other side Possibly being better. Hell,if I had a Blue Ribbon I'd probably pin it to my monitor.
What a brilliant photographer!
ReplyDeleteI'll say!! Thank you Debra!!!
DeleteYAy - thanks to Debra!
ReplyDeleteI grew up on a hay farm. We had rectangular bales until I went off to college. Dad switched over to wrapped round bales at that time.
ReplyDeleteThe wrapped LRBs any easier in the handling dept?
DeleteNo more picking up in the field to load on a trailer and then unloading it to stack it in the barn. The bale is wrapped and dropped. A tractor with a front end loader with a spike spears the bale and it is either loaded on a flatbed to be hauled off or stacked 3 high along the fence row for storage. Square bale was at least a 2 man operation. WRB was faster, cleaner, and could be a 1 man operation.
DeleteAs a young man I had large shoulders and 20" biceps which I somewhat maintained till my late 40's.
Thanks.
DeleteI got pretty daggum good with a 35 mm in the80s.. I don't think I could have gotten a shot of that hay that would have shown the character, the texture and charisma of that brave,lone bale,, She certainly must have gotten its Good side,, I can't imagine the other side Possibly being better.
ReplyDeleteHell,if I had a Blue Ribbon I'd probably pin it to my monitor.
Yes, there used to be bale-ions of them!
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