I took this picture today of the kids unloading hay. We simply rolled it onto the tractor’s long forks and then it zips over to the hay barn and the tractor dumps it over.
This made me think of how they might have done all this on the Circle C. Hence the 1880 vs. 2023 pictures. Wagon, horses, and pulleys (and a lot of manpower) versus diesel-powered tractor and a little manpower). Even two young girls can do this!
They didn’t even have bales of hay in the 1800s. Just as lot of loose hay to haul up into the hayloft. But that made it fun to swing on a rope and drop onto the hay!
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Cool post. I think it would have been fun playing in all the hay in the hayloft. Probably took a whole lot more work to store all of the hay then, than it does today.
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That looks sooo fun to jump down on a pile of hey! haha
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My sister and I did all of this, except we had tractors and a truck. I wanted a horse but we didn’t have one. I preferred loose hay because the bales were scratchy on my legs. You were right about what you wrote.
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it is a lot different now then in the 1880’s. a whole lot easier too 😂
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Wow, that seems like a lot of work.
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Oops, cool post.
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How fun!
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I’ve always wanted to rope swing into a pile of hay, lol. It sounds like fun!
I can’t imagine having to hall loose hay up to the hayloft. Hay bales would defiantly be easier.
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I love swinging on our rope swing into a bale of loose hay in our barn. I grew up Amish part of my life and we used a horse and wagon to bale hay.
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That’s awesome!
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That is so cool! Do you mind sharing the Order the you were part of?
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Sure! I was Old Order Amish. We left 4 years ago
We are now born again Anabaptists.
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So cool!
Do you mind if I ask if Beverly Lewis’s Amish books are accurate to the Amish life?
Also do you miss your Amish life?
-BookAdventurer
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That is really neat!
Do you miss you Amish life?
Are Beverly Lewis books accurate?
-BookAdventurer
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That looks like a lot of fun! I’m glad we have tractors nowadays, though 🙂
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Yep!
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For our hay day, we need like five people to get the bales up in the hay loft.
We have like a hay elavator that shoots them up for us to stack.
Its my least favorite barn day… luckely we get like 200-300 bales at once so we dont have to do it too often!
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That’s a lot!!! They usually get a “squeeze,” which is dozens of bales, but lately they would rather pick and choose to avoid any possible mold, which sometimes they find on the bottom bales.
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yeah !
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