who wants to help hay?

Don-Wi · Jul 4, 2015

Only partly in jest here..... our help bailed on us this morning to help put up what we have on wagons. Now we only have 2 1/2 empty wagons left and we can fill those in no time with the hay we've got left laying in the field.

Good help is just hard to find I guess.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 4, 2015

I bought some more baskets this year, nice to pull the lever
and drive away.

joepa · Jul 4, 2015

I know what you mean! Even paying a good wage with food/drink they are hard to find. If it wasn't so far I'd grab my boy and be over. Too wet here to do anything. Yesterday it looked like we were going to have a 3 day window, rained this morning and took Monday/Tuesday away with scatter thunderstorms...

Donald Lehman · Jul 4, 2015

Had two days of sunshine in a row yesterday and the day before. Neighbor mowed the first day, pulled in with the rake and baler yesterday morning and started baling right behind the rake. A few minutes later a couple of his kids showed up with the skid steer and wagon. By the time they had one wagon loaded up another of the boys pulled in with the manure spreader. They worked to well after dark both days, too.

kevinecwi · Jul 4, 2015

Is it possible to call someone to make big squares or round bales? I've done a few last minute jobs like that, always seemed like easy money. Hope you get it all in before Monday.

Don-Wi · Jul 4, 2015

That's our backup plan on Monday. Only part is we don't have much room to store large squares so we'd like to get more in the barn since that's where the storage is.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Don-Wi · Jul 4, 2015

That's our backup plan on Monday. Only part is we don't have much room to store large squares so we'd like to get more in the barn since that's where the storage is.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Bill VA · Jul 4, 2015

Looking ahead to when my boys are out and on their own, aside from some accumulator, type system or a round baler, I thought about asking
our Church's youth group to help with $$$’s going to their group activities ongoing expenses or letting them donate the money to someone in
need. I get my hay up and enable someone to do a good turn too.

Good luck,
Bill

Don-Wi · Jul 4, 2015

They actually help? I asked a few guys I work with and I managed to get one for Thursday, then he went up north Friday. Said he'd help again Sunday when he's home if we've got more.

Still looking....

Donovan from Wisconsin

Alan K · Jul 4, 2015

Im good help and easy to find, but being in Minnesota doesn't help you much.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 4, 2015

And this is why I sold my kicker wagons and bought a bale wrapper. No help , crummy weather , and still need
to make good hay. I would like to come and help too Don , but I have hay to bale to day as well. Right after
I get done chopping some second cut. Now if this was August,maybe I could stop in and help for a hour or
two. Going to Manitoba then, and we are going to get a first hand look at your beautiful state. And a few
others along the way. Bruce

ss55 · Jul 4, 2015

Can I ask what it pays?

Gambles · Jul 4, 2015

When I was in grade school and early high school, my great aunt had a large alfalfa farm. She would bale everything on the ground (small bales, obviously) and then hire 4-5 kids/high schoolers to pick up the bales and stack them on the trailer. When we picked them up, she would drive the tractor, a Ford 9N I believe, one kid was stacking on the trailer and two kids were throwing them on the trailer. At the same time, another kid would be unloading the bales on a bale elevator and another would be stacking in her barn. I remember doing this many times when it was over 100 and another day when it was 110 in the shade.
You couldn't get any kids to do this today. The local farmers can't even find anybody to cut shatter cane when it is cool in the morning.

Don-Wi · Jul 4, 2015

Starts at 8, the good help gets paid around 12.

Donovan from Wisconsin

showcrop · Jul 4, 2015

When I was a kid I couldn't wait to be old enough to go haying like my older brother. They let me start when I was 13, at $.50/ hour. but I would have done it for nothing, I enjoyed it so much. When I was out working and driving between stops I would stop and help a stranger sometimes when I could see that he was in a jam. Very few people understand the immediacy of hay. When my kids left home I bought a baler with a thrower and three bale racks. Also I have customers who prefer to pick up off the ground. I handle very few bales anymore.

K Effective · Jul 4, 2015

All 3 of my kids vanished tonight, so I knocked out the last 165 from a field all by my lonesome- no one to blame for a crooked load. When you first take off, you can run a dozen bales or so before stopping to stack, towards the end, when the wagon is near full, it's every third bale or so. At least the Cubs were on the radio tonight. I guess $10/hr and an hour of fun with Dad ain't so appealing anymore

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