what to ay for haying help

I searched for this tipic which was recently discussed, but I could"nt find it.

I was wondering what to pay for hay help. The helpers will be loading 60 lb squares onto trailers, not driving any trucks or equipment. They will also unload and stack.

thanks

wally

Around here, i get $7/hour for 50-60 pounders

We pay our wagon and mow help at least [b:817bd79dcc]$12.50 [/b:817bd79dcc]per hour plus we feed them.

Jim

I pay $12-$15 because they really earn it, and I try to keep the weight down around 45-50lbs. to help them to be able to come back.

Lanse;

You should move to Iowa or one of the other states where the pay is better for the summer. Pack your tent. I'd opt for the ones that feed you too. Not many cooks better than farm wives--and you've heard about the farmer's daughters. Ah, to be a teen again.

Larry in Michigan

LOL Yee-Haw


Most places here feed you. Last place i worked for i barely worked. The boss had me and someone else help some dude load a 28' trailer since his help diddnt show up. We spent most of the day tossing bales down from wagons where the 50 year old man stacked most of them even when we offered to help him out. This was when i was given that WC, during a break. When things began to slow down on the trailer front i left the ease of tossing bales 5 feet across a wagon and letting them fall to go back to stacking, since now it was just the guy who gave me the WC up there, and he was really working by this time. i walked out across the field and climbed up and he sure appriciated that. The bad part was i got the trailer stacking job instead of being on the wagons because my skin was allready badly burned and the back of my neck is still peeling but it was worth it. The boss at this job was pretty ticked because he payed me and the other person $160 to stack the dude's trailer and the dude never reimbursed him for our help. I stacked for 2 other places this first cutting. Hoping to do better next. Hopefully i wont miss most of it due to a trip.

I work whatever odd job i can for my tractors. Its hard, the work sucks and doesnt pay well, but its worth it any day for these old tractors. My most realiable job is at a livestock and implement dealer, but thats got to be the only one i truely hate. The guy's an @$$ and its amazing he can stay in buissness. They have a bushhog there they;re trying to sell that has plywood covering where the deck rusted through. The whole place is overgrown and he pays me to use an anicient cythe to recaim overgrown areas. Thats bad enough, but the "restored" tractors he sells really touch a nerve. Theres what coulda been a nice WD45 there. The lens on the back bulb broke. You can see where he spray painted over it. Its an orange light. Theres sevral fords that are worse. Including some painted over grease. Anyone in soulthwest ohio looking to hire a kid???? When i get these tractors going and have some money to spend im going to put an ad in the local paper for myself to try to find some other work.......

Sorry to sat this, but for what you are describing you simply wouldn't get anyone to do that around here (not for more than a couple of hours anyway).

Lanse, I might be able to find you some work, Where are you located, i know south west ohio, but where more specicfic. I am near jacksonburg, west of middletown. [email protected]

Thanks. You have mail

I would say $7/hour for the ones that you dont want back tomorrow, ad as already stated, $12+ for the ones you definatly want back another day. Good help is hard to find and when you find it you need to invest in it.

$8 per hour cash and my help cant wait to get here when we need them. You should try shoving 625 small squares on a cattle pot we usually get it done in 2 1/2 hours. The Lab helps for room and board.

Last time I tried to hire hay help,couldn't find any for any money. I used to work for two cents a bale. Loading bales on wagon behind baler. 1956. Dating myself Bernie Steffen

Last week I contracted to haul square straw bales for a neighbor. Neithbor supplied the tractors and trailers. Hired 5 guys, 19-20, to do the work. All together we loaded, hauled and stacked 4600 bales averaging 50 pounds each. We did the work in 4 days and I supplied lunch. Paid them $90 a day. Suplied water and gator aide.
Neighbor paid me 60 cents per bale. Total of $2760. Gave each guy an extra $50. Earned every cent. Guys dropped cooler, had to replace $50.
Glad when it was over. Had chance to do for another farmer but 4 of the guys said they had all they wanted.

I haven't paid my help yet. A steak/lobster dinner is the usual cost.

My only help is my wife and 16 year old daughter. I put the daughter on the tractor operating and I stack on the wagon. Wife helps some, but I usually save her for the unloading process.

Not many teenage boys around that care to throw bales and my daughter has no interest in the male species at the moment to bring any home to help.

hmmmmm too bad you're not closer Im always looking for work here. Not many of here eather, just an equal lack of jobs. I like what i do at most places i've worked.

$8.00/hr in ohio, all they can drink (gatorade/water) and dinner thrown in. If you have a cute daughter it helps too!

Boy this subject brings back memories. I can't see paying any less then $10.00 an hour, thats about $10.00 an hour more then I made growing up on the farm. Also help do my uncles haying and he had a big farm, sure got hot in the hay loft.
When I left the farm and was on my own with my wife,daughter, mortage all that fun stuff I would drive delivery truck all day then help a neighbour at night do his haying, about 5 bucks an hour but help pay the bills.
Now Lanse take it easy on them 50 year old remarks. I am pushing 50 but think I could still do a few days haying, might take a few days just to get use to it again. Them old farmers that have worked hard all their lives would still work me and most people under the table. But haying is better left to you young bucks lol.
Seriously Lanse its nice to see young people with some ambition and auctally want to work. I hope you get a good paying job so you can have the kind of life you want.
I am in Canada but from what I have read about the job market in the USA I would think help would be easy to find. I guess that kind of work is just too much for them. They are use to paying to go to a sauna instead of working in one.

I'm with bernie late 50's in the thumb of michigan $10.00 a day and meals that was good money 2 of us loaded hauled and stacked in the barn.

Hired 4 guys last night who were anxious to work, and they were well worth the 12 bucks an hour we paid them. One kid that didn't look strong enough to lift a bale did the best job of stacking a trailer that I'd ever seen- absolutely rock solid, tie bales every which way- I didn't even have to tie it down to make the trip home. I unloaded the trailer onto the elevator (I'm 59 and portly), and the one kid asked (nicely) a couple of times how it was going down there, and did I need a breather? Nice kids, they'll be invited back.