Okie knows farming

Don't you think you should apologize okie?

My older brother and I were baling hay when we were 9 and 10. One driving the tractor and the other stacking bales.

Did you pull a sled or trailer behind the baler, so that you could stack the bales on it, or were you stacking the bales in groups in the field, or what? Were those bales smaller bales as I assume they were, such as 50 to 100 lbs.? I guess I am questioning how you did that, perhaps you did it differently or had different types of equipment in South Dakota, but when I grew up in Oklahoma and began to do the work in the late 50's into the 60's, the baler left the bales on the ground wherever they happened to be left by the baler

This thread is a dead horse; time to put the saddle back in the tack room.

Even then, if a galer goes down, A kid should keep their hands and arms away from a PTO drive baler (or an ONAN drive like the Amish use)

You didnt have "Kickers" on your balers? EWven if you didnt, it was quite common to attach a flatbed wagon behind a baler and a person would just drag or carry the bales to the back and begin a perfect stack.

In fact, I don't remember anyone doing it. It seems to me it would be a bit too much equipment to efficiently make all the turns to catch the windrows with the baler. Also, if you had to back up a bit, that does not seem at all practical.

You just like to provide more evidence of how little you spent in the fields, don't you okie.

What a fuckin' wimp! He only stacks 'em five high? And that lazy sum 'a bitch on the tractor, I ran the tractor wheel from the flat bed trailer and threw the bales up 1o high.

I was test driving a DB 990 for my dad that he wanted to buy when i was 10.

First tractor I drove was our old Case 300 when I was 10. We used to use it to haul the hay wagons.

My first: Zetor 6718 6yr old. 6 and a hlf when i drove it alone, with trailer

A Deutz-Fahr 6.71, when I was 10, preparing the land for sugerbeets

i first drove a jd 6400 in a field collecting bales i was 6 or 7 now the 6400 is becomeing a mod

The first field i ever completed on my own was disking with a Ford 5000! i must of been 11

The first tractor I drove was a Farmall Super C pulling a hay wagon I was 7.

Massey Ferguson 3060 my very first time. (when I was 7 or 8 years old, 18 now)

IH 1246 comfort 2000 when i was 8 ore so now i,m 30

It was a big feild and the tanker was empty by th end of the feild Tongue. I was only 10 then

Like many people who grew up on a farm, my first real experience operating a tractor was as a little boy at the age of ten....
My father on the other hand, remembers being seven when he was asked to drive an old Allis Chalmers WC attached to a bale lifter.

At 9 years old I could throw a 60lb bale, pick up a 40kg bag of sweet feed, AND look darn cute doing it too

I have run John Deere balers since i was 9 years old. We run 2 balers and try to trade every other year.

Mary Lincoln had two children from a previous marriage, a girl and a boy. The boy, 9 years old in 1973, had a number of chores in the early years on the farm. One was baling hay.

Sorting and stacking the heavy bales in the barn for winter storage, the boy turned it into a game.